This tutorial demonstrates the basic functions of the WebSphere Process Server relationship manager. Relationships are used to correlate identifiers from different environments for the same item of data. For example, in one environment, states are identified by two-letter abbreviations (AZ, TX). In another environment, different abbreviations are used (Ariz., Tex.). A relationship would be created to correlate "AZ" in the first environment to "Ariz" in the second environment.
The sample relationship referenced here correlates customer ID's. Many business applications maintain databases of customers, and most of these applications assign their own ID to each customer. In an enterprise environment, the same customer likely has a different ID in each business application. In this tutorial, a relationship is defined to correlate customer ID's. The relationship name is "SampleCustID". Two roles are defined for this relationship. One role is for the Customer Information System (CIS), and the other role is for the General Ledger (GL) application. This relationship was created by the relationship services sample along with the roles and a small amount of sample data.
The relationship manager is designed to add, modify, and remove role instances of a relationship instance as well as add, modify, and remove relationship instances. WebSphere Integration Developer should be used to create and deploy new relationship definitions. The definitions are stored as XML files that are deployed as part of a J2EE application to a particular server.
After completing this tutorial, you will be able to change the values of relationship instances.
This tutorial requires approximately 10 minutes to complete.
This tutorial uses a relationship that is created by the relationship services technical sample. Before following the steps of this tutorial, go to the samples gallery and perform the steps described in the relationship services sample to create the required relationship and roles.
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