Applications can use the Application Configuration Client to access the configuration at runtime. This client provides read-only access to the Configuration and Management database using a configuration repository adapter. The adapter itself is pluggable and can be replaced to access different types of configuration repositories. InfoSphere® MDM provides a database-based Configuration and Management database and its corresponding repository adapter.
The Application Configuration Client provides programmatic read-only
access to the application's configuration. The Configuration class
and the ConfigContext interface are the main elements of the Application
Configuration Client: