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• Either as a single JSON string value, providing the name of the JSON configuration file (e.g. .applicationsettings or .restapplicationsettings)
• As a JSON Object, providing name/value pairs with the configuration values, basically embedding the .applicationsettings/.restapplicationsettings file into the JSON configuration file. 

Services

The loadServices array can define services in two ways, combinations are supported:

• as JSON Strings referencing the names of service.xml files
• as JSON Objects directly referencing services, see below. Services in the JSON Object configuration in one JSON Configuration file may override settings for the same Interface in a base JSON Configuration file thus allowing overriding individual service definitions - which is not supported by service.xml files. 

"loadServices": [
  {
    "Package.Subpackage.IInterfaceName1": "Package.Subpackage.ServiceImplementation1",
    "Package.Subpackage.IInterfaceName2": "Package.Subpackage.ServiceImplementation2"
  }
]

AppServer Startup

The procedure Consultingwerk/Framework/Server/ccs_startup.p implements an AppServer startup based on the Common Component Specification (CCS) compliant AppServerStartupManager.

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