Creating a configuration XML file for your application
In the "Creating configuration files" section, you copied some configuration files to your working directory. One of those files was the icfconfig.xml file. This file stores all the session types that let you specify which actions Progress Dynamics takes when launched, for example, connecting servers, connecting databases, starting managers, and launching containers.
The DynSports session type that you created currently exists only in the Repository. To use it, you must export this information to the icfconfig.xml file. Once the session type is listed in the configuration file, you can create a Desktop shortcut that uses the information to launch your application.
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To generate a configuration file for the sample application: |
- Choose Option
Generate Configuration File from the Session Type Maintenance TreeView’s menu. The Generate Configuration File window appears: - Type <wrk>\Tutorial\dynsports.xml for the File Name, where <wrk> is your Progress Dynamics working directory.
- Select DynSports from the Available Session Types list and choose Add>. The DynSports session type moves into the Selected Session Types list. The generation process only adds the selected session types into the configuration file. This enables you to tailor exactly what can be accessed from any deployed version of your application. If the configuration file does not have the session types that support the development environment, the development environment cannot be started successfully using that configuration file.
- Choose the Generate Config File button to re-create the configuration file. A message dialog box appears when the file is completed:
- Choose OK, and exit the Generate Configuration File and Session Type Maintenance windows.
- Open the
dynsports.xmlfile in a Web browser, and see the results of your changes, as shown:
