Administering relationships

The relationship manager is a tool for manually manipulating relationship data to correct errors found in automated relationship management or provide more complete relationship information. In particular, it provides a facility for retrieving as well as modifying relationship instance data.

The relationship manager allows you to configure, query, view, and perform operations on relationship runtime data, including participants and their data. You create relationship definitions with the relationship editor. At run time, instances of the relationships are populated with the data that associates information from different applications. This relationship instance data is created when the maps or other WebSphere Process Server components run and need a relationship instance. The relationship service exposes a set of application programming interfaces (API's) to retrieve relationship metadata and to create, retrieve, and manipulate the instance data. The data is stored in the relationship tables specified in the relationship definition. The relationship manager provides a graphical user interface to interact with the relationships and relationship instances.

For each relationship instance, the relationship manager can display a hierarchical listing of its participants. Each participant fills a role in the relationship and has instance data, properties, and key attributes. The relationship tree also provides detailed information about each of the participants in the relationship instance, such as the type of entity, its value, and the date it was last modified. A relationship instance ID is automatically generated when the relationship instance is saved in the relationship table. The relationship manager will display this instance ID at the top level of the relationship tree.

You can use the relationship manager to manage entities at all levels: the relationship instance, participant instance, and attribute data and property data levels. For example, you can use the relationship manager to:

For more information on relationships, see the WebSphere Integration Developer Information Center and the relationship services and administrative console in the WebSphere Process Server Information Center.


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Last updated: Thu Apr 27 14:23:46 2006

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