diff --git a/commons/src/main/java/org/archive/spring/ConfigFileEditor.java b/commons/src/main/java/org/archive/spring/ConfigFileEditor.java
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+/*
+ *  This file is part of the Heritrix web crawler (crawler.archive.org).
+ *
+ *  Licensed to the Internet Archive (IA) by one or more individual 
+ *  contributors. 
+ *
+ *  The IA licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ *  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ *  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ *  limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.archive.spring;
+
+/**
+ * PropertyEditor allowing Strings to become ConfigFile instances.
+ * 
+ */
+public class ConfigFileEditor<T> extends ConfigPathEditor {
+
+    public Object getValue() {
+        ConfigFile c =  new ConfigFile(null,value.toString());
+        return c;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/commons/src/main/java/org/archive/spring/ConfigPathEditor.java b/commons/src/main/java/org/archive/spring/ConfigPathEditor.java
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+/*
+ *  This file is part of the Heritrix web crawler (crawler.archive.org).
+ *
+ *  Licensed to the Internet Archive (IA) by one or more individual 
+ *  contributors. 
+ *
+ *  The IA licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ *  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ *  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ *  limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.archive.spring;
+
+import java.awt.Component;
+import java.awt.Graphics;
+import java.awt.Rectangle;
+import java.beans.PropertyChangeListener;
+import java.beans.PropertyEditor;
+
+/**
+ * PropertyEditor allowing Strings to become ConfigPath instances.
+ * 
+ */
+public class ConfigPathEditor<T> implements PropertyEditor {
+    protected Object value;
+    
+    public void addPropertyChangeListener(PropertyChangeListener listener) {
+        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+
+    }
+
+    public String getAsText() {
+        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    public Component getCustomEditor() {
+        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    public String getJavaInitializationString() {
+        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    public String[] getTags() {
+        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    public Object getValue() {
+        ConfigPath c =  new ConfigPath(null,value.toString());
+        //c.put(value);
+        return c;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isPaintable() {
+        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    public void paintValue(Graphics gfx, Rectangle box) {
+        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+
+    }
+
+    public void removePropertyChangeListener(PropertyChangeListener listener) {
+        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+
+    }
+
+    public void setAsText(String text) throws IllegalArgumentException {
+        setValue(text);
+    }
+
+    public void setValue(Object value) {
+        this.value = value;
+    }
+
+    public boolean supportsCustomEditor() {
+        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+        return false;
+    }
+
+}