Service Information

Component properties are set during system start-up: the Content Store reads them from .properties files. These files are named in the same way as the components they configure. The properties of the /neo/io/content/cache/ArticleListCache component for example, are loaded from files called configuration-root/neo/io/content/cache/ArticleListCache.properties that contain appropriate property settings such as:

maxSize=300

The Content Store has a layered configuration system in which such property settings are loaded from a number of different locations. During start-up, the Content Store searches through a series of locations (or configuration-roots) in turn and applies the settings it finds. The final property settings displayed in the component browser, therefore, are a result of merging all the settings found in these various locations. If a particular property is set in several locations, the last setting wins.

The service information section contains listings of all the .properties files loaded for a component, in the order they were loaded. You can therefore use this section to find out where particular properties are actually set.

For more information about the Content Store's configuration system, see Configuring The Content Store.