An IceGrid XML file may contain optional definitions that are deployed only when specifically requested. These definitions are called targets and must be defined within a
target element. The elements that may legally appear within a
target element are determined by its enclosing element. For example, a
node element is legal inside a
target element of an
application element, but not inside a
target element of a
server element. Each
target element must define a value for the
name attribute, but names are not required to be unique. Rather, targets should be considered as optional components or features of an application that are deployed in certain circumstances.
The example below defines targets named debug that, if requested during deployment, configure their servers with an additional property:
Target names specified in an icegridadmin command (see
Section 35.23.1) can be unqualified names like
debug, in which case every target with that name is deployed, regardless of the target’s nesting level. If you want to deploy targets more selectively, you can specify a fully-qualified name instead. A fully-qualified target name consists of its unqualified name prefaced by the names or identifiers of each enclosing element. For instance, a fully-qualified target name from the example above is
MyApp.Node.Server1.debug.
You can include the contents of another XML file into the current file using the include element, which is replaced with the contents of the included file. The elements in the included file must be enclosed in an
icegrid element, as shown in the following example:
In B.xml, the
include element identifies the name of the file to include using the
file attribute. The top-level
icegrid element is discarded from
A.xml and its contents are inserted at the position of the
include element in
B.xml.
You can include specific targets (see Section 35.19.1) from a file by specifying their names in the optional
targets attribute. If multiple targets are included, their names must be separated by whitespace. The example below illustrates the use of a target:
