Sergey's first proposal was to use JaxB classes for configuration
Some more info on JaxB http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/index-140168.html
One of Sergey argument was it is in the part of java 6 now, so we do not need separate jars for it.
This feature is to be investigating and discussed, At this sprint - only proposal is to be made at forum. See https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3052251&group_id=200186&atid=1446552