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Understanding the Master Index Standardization Engine

Service Instance Definition File

Each data type variant is configured by a service definition file. Service type files define the fields to be standardized for a data type, and service instance definition files define the variant and Java factory class for the variant. Both files are in XML format.

Element 

Attribute 

Description 

serviceInstance 

 

A container element for the description and any parameters for the variant. 
 

type 

The name of the data type to which the variant belongs.  

description 

 

A brief description of the variant, such as “Person Names: Spain”. 

parameter 

 

One parameter for the variant. The default variants contain two parameters, dataType and variantType. The dataType parameter specifies the name of the data type to which the variant belongs. The variantType parameter specifies the name of the variant. For a master index application, these are the names of the nodes that appear under the Standardization Engine node.
 

name 

The name of the parameter.  
 

value 

The value of the parameter. 

componentManagerFactory 

 

The component manager factory class for the variant. 
 

class 

The name of the component manager factory class. The default class is com.sun.inti.components.component.BeanComponentManagerFactory.

property 

 

A property of the component manager factory class. The default class has two properties. The stylesheetURL property defines the location of the stylesheet, standardizer.xml.

The urlSource property defines the process definition file. Its value is a bean (by default, com.sun.inti.components.url.ResourceURLSource), which has a property called resourceName. The value for this property is standardizer.xml.
 

name 

The name of the property. 
 

value 

The value for the property.