Application configuration

Documentation status: guide — see Maturity and evidence.

Application configuration answers one operational question: which runtime, packages, graphs, databases, services, resources, and presentation contexts are assembled to make the conceptual application executable?

Keep assembly concerns outside the business model. A model declares business meaning; the application configuration selects the runtime resources used to execute it.

Typical responsibilities

application
  identity and language
  package activation
  graph resources
  database aliases
  binary/runtime packages
  declarative model packages
  services
  files and resources
  local or remote runtime resources

A useful project keeps a memory configuration for first-run validation and a persistent configuration for production-like execution. Environment-specific paths, credentials, ports, and service activation belong to configuration, not reusable model metadata.

See Package and model loading and Environment configuration.