Ice uses a configuration mechanism that allows you to control many aspects of the behavior of your Ice applications at run time, such as maximum message size, number of threads, or whether to produce network trace messages. The configuration mechanism is not only useful to configure Ice, but you can also use it to provide configuration parameters to your own applications. The configuration mechanism is simple to use with a minimal API, yet flexible enough to cope with the needs of most applications.
Sections 26.2 to
26.7 describe the basics of the configuration mechanism and explain how to configure Ice via configuration files and command line options.
Section 26.8 shows how you can create your own application-specific properties and how to access their values from within a program.
