Proposal: The service configuration will obtain the data binding from the service factory. If it is Aegis, it will extract the desired customizations. If it is not Aegis, it will do nothing. It will NOT independently pull in and parse the XML.
The alternative is, of course, to allow Aegis configuration to be mixed with anything else by just going ahead and reading the file (if any) at that point. The former is less work and arguably less confusing, but I'll do the later if others think it superior.
