Application Definition - Xyna-Factory/xyna GitHub Wiki

To create a new Application from within a Workspace it is necessary to define its content first. This content description is called Application Definition.

An Application Definition may contain objects of the following types:

• Capacities
• Data Types
• Exception Types
• Filters
• Filter Instances
• Form Definitions
• Order Input Sources
• Order Types
• Shared Libraries
• Triggers
• Trigger Instances
• Workflows
• Xyna Properties

The content of an Application is evaluated at the time it is created. All objects that are part of the Application Definition as well as all their dependent objects are then included. Thus the content of the Application Definition is called partially explicit and partially implicit (cf. fig. 1). Typically the only explicit content needed for an Application Definition are its Root Workflows or its Root Order Types.

Figure 1: Show an Application Definition's details (left panel) and change its content (right panel)

Applications are created from inside of a Workspace by defining their content via an Application Definition and afterwards building the specific version of an Application. To modify an Application, it has first to be copied into a Workspace again, which automatically creates a fitting Application Definition.

The following list contains all possible actions with Application Definitions:

• Create new Application Definition as part of a Workspace
• Remove Application Defintions
• Set required Runtime Contexts
• Define the content of an Application Definition
• Monitor problems inside an Application Definition
• Build a new Application from an Application Definition
• Create an Application Definition during the loading the content of an Application into a Workspace

Application Definitions are defined and Applications are build in the Workspaces section inside the Xyna Factory Manager.

• Workspace Management in the Factory Manager
• Workspace
• Application