String message = properties.getProperty("text.message");
String formattedMessage = MessageFormat.format(message, "Richard", "School", new Date(), "1days");
System.out.println(formattedMessage); // Richard has to go to School in 31/05/2012 / 1days

String pattern = "{0} has to go to {1} in {2,date} / {3,number,integer} days.";
String result = MessageFormat.format(pattern, "Richard", "school", new Date(), 5);
System.out.println(result);

Richard has to go to school in 31-May-2012 / 5 days.

import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.Properties;

public class App {
public static void main(String[] args) {

Properties prop = new Properties();
OutputStream output = null;

try {

    output = new FileOutputStream("config.properties");

    // set the properties value
    prop.setProperty("database", "localhost");
    prop.setProperty("dbuser", "ayushman");
    prop.setProperty("dbpassword", "password");

    // save properties to project root folder
    prop.store(output, null);

} catch (IOException io) {
    io.printStackTrace();
} finally {
    if (output != null) {
        try {
            output.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

}
 }
}

#Fri Jan 17 22:37:45 MYT 2014
dbpassword=password
database=localhost
dbuser=ayushman

Properties properties = ObjectProperties.readObjects("HomePageObject.properties");
System.out.println(properties.getProperty("clusterNameXpath"));
String dummystring = (String) properties.get("clusterNameXpath");
clusterNameXpath = MessageFormat.format(dummystring, "des01500");
System.out.println(clusterNameXpath);

//a[contains(text(),'{0}')]
//a[contains(text(),{0})]