Concepts are collections of objects stored in WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR). You can create
concepts by using the Eclipse user interface (UI).
Before you begin
Before you can create concepts in
WSRR, you must complete
the following tasks:
About this task
A concept can be used to group physical artifacts together
for ease of retrieval. Concepts can also be used to represent a business-level
view on the SOA metadata managed in WSRR.
Procedure
To create a concept in WSRR:
- In the WSRR Content view, select the
documents that you want to group together into a Concept.
- Right-click the selection, then click Create
Collection.
- In the wizard, type a name, namespace, description, and
version for the concept, then click Next. The Add Properties wizard opens.
- Add, edit or remove properties that will be attached to
the new Collection entity. See the
Adding properties
topic
for assistance on doing this. Then click Next. The Add Relationships wizard opens.
- Add or remove relationships that will be attached to the
new Collection entity. See the
Adding relationships
topic for
assistance on doing this), then click Finish. Note: The Add Relationships wizard allows
you to create a new relationship and set the selected documents as
targets of that relationship.
- Click Finish. A
message confirms that the concept was created successfully.