EPIM has shared configuration settings, such as: the location of EPIM folders; the server host name; port usage; database connection information; and controls for triggers, promotion configuration, the UI, and publication options.
The sharedConfig.properties file used to be the only location of these settings, but now many of them are stored in the Shared Configuration List in the EPIM database and can be accessed through the EnterWorks Classic UI. In order to maintain backward compatibility, if a property is not available in the database, EnterWorks will fall back to reading the property from the sharedConfig.properties file.