Overview

You can use an XML-based configuration file to define runtime configurations for Web‑enabled applications, Web services consumers, and REST services applications. The advantages of using XML instead of standard initialization file syntax are as follows.

Flexibility; for example, nesting is allowed
Standards-based
Development tools such as .NET primarily uses XML‑based configuration files

If the [WebOptions] section in the JADE initialization file has a reference to the XML-based configuration file, the settings in the XML-based configuration file are used. If not, the settings in the [WebOptions] section are used.

There are additional runtime configuration parameters that you can specify. These can be defined only by using the XML format configuration file.

You can define two types of configuration file: one for Web-enabled applications (JADE forms, HTML documents, and Web service providers) and REST services applications, and one for Web service consumers.

For Web-enabled applications and REST services applications, the JADE initialization file setting required to use the XML-based configuration file is as follows.
```
[WebOptions]
ApplicationConfigFile=file-name
```
For Web service consumers, the JADE initialization file setting required to use the XML-based configuration file is as follows.
```
[WebOptions]
ConsumerConfigFile=file-name
```

For details about the ApplicationConfigFile and ConsumerConfigFile initialization file parameters, see the JADE Initialization File Reference.