Externalizing the testdata used by testcases to a properties file

Could someone help me how to externalize the testdata used by the testcases...

Or could you direct me to some sample format to do so......

Thankyou

Do you really need to

What do you mean.

Do you mean sharing test data between tests?

Are you mimicing a database or are your just trying to create objects.

If its Objects your probably better off creating an object with a number of factory method.

If its a database try looking at DBUnit (Just google DBUnit)