At the heart of eQ!™ is the XML configuration file. This guide and reference will walk through the configuration file and explain what is required, what is optional and what each tag/section represents.

The configuration file contains 6 main sections:

• bc-config - Assigns a logical name to a particular business object class. Currently only required for Struts applications
• struts-config - Maps business objects to a given HTML form
• script-manager - Defines the location and name of the XML script file
• set-manager - Defines sets of business objects. A snippet was provided in the relationships section.
• connection-pools - Sets up a connection pool if internal connection pooling is desired. Connection pools can be handled outside eQ!™ as well, such as a J2EE server
• persistence-manager - Defines datastores and all of the persisters used in the application
  • datastores - The persisters are matched to a datastore configuration. If internal connection pooling is used, then the <pool-name> element must point to a defined connection pool. If outside pooling is used, eQ!™ will use the JNDI properties provided to look up a javax.sql.DataSource object.
  • persisters - Persisters for individual objects are defined in this section
  • set-persisters - SetPersisters are defined in this section