17.3. Loading Your Configuration from a File

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration xmlns:mode="http://www.modeshape.org/1.0" xmlns:jcr="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1.0">
  <!-- 
  Define the JCR repositories 
  -->
  <mode:repositories>
      <!-- 
      Define a JCR repository that accesses the 'Cars' source directly.
      This of course is optional, since we could access the same content through 'vehicles'.
      -->
      <mode:repository jcr:name="car repository" mode:source="Cars">
          <mode:options jcr:primaryType="mode:options">
              <mode:option jcr:name="jaasLoginConfigName" mode:value="modeshape-jcr"/>
          </mode:options>
          <mode:descriptors>
            <!-- 
            	This adds a JCR Repository descriptor named "myDescriptor" with a value of "foo".
            	So this code:
            	Repository repo = ...;
            	System.out.println(repo.getDescriptor("myDescriptor");

            	Will now print out "foo".
            -->
            <myDescriptor mode:value="foo" />
          </mode:descriptors>
          <!-- 
                Import the custom node types defined in the named files. The values
                can be an absolute path to a classpath resource, an absolute file system
                path, a relative path on the file system (relative to where the process was
                started from), or a resolvable URL. If more than one node type definition 
                file is needed, the files can be listed as a single comma-delimited string
                in the 'mode:resource' attribute of the 'jcr:nodeTypes' element, or listed 
                individually using multiple mode:resource child elements (as shown below).
            -->
          <jcr:nodeTypes>
	           <mode:resource>/org/example/my-node-types.cnd</mode:resource>
	           <mode:resource>/org/example/additional-node-types.cnd</mode:resource>
	        </jcr:nodeTypes>
      </mode:repository>
  </mode:repositories>
   <!-- 
   Define the sources for the content. These sources are directly accessible using the 
   ModeShape-specific Graph API.
   -->
   <mode:sources jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
       <mode:source jcr:name="Cars" 
              mode:classname="org.modeshape.graph.connector.inmemory.InMemoryRepositorySource" 
              mode:retryLimit="3" mode:defaultWorkspaceName="workspace1">
	           <mode:predefinedWorkspaceNames>workspace2</mode:predefinedWorkspaceNames>
	           <mode:predefinedWorkspaceNames>workspace3</mode:predefinedWorkspaceNames>
       </mode:source>
   </mode:sources>
   <!-- 
   Define the sequencers. This is an optional section. For this example, we're not using any sequencers. 
   -->
   <mode:sequencers>
       <!--mode:sequencer jcr:name="Image Sequencer">
           <mode:classname>
           	org.modeshape.sequencer.image.ImageMetadataSequencer
           </mode:classname>
           <mode:description>Image metadata sequencer</mode:description>        
           <mode:pathExpression>/foo/source => /foo/target</mode:pathExpression>
           <mode:pathExpression>/bar/source => /bar/target</mode:pathExpression>
       </mode:sequencer-->
   </mode:sequencers>
   <mode:mimeTypeDetectors>
       <mode:mimeTypeDetector jcr:name="Detector" 
                             mode:description="Standard extension-based MIME type detector"/>
   </mode:mimeTypeDetectors>
</configuration>