Retrieving an Organization Hierarchy

JAXR allows you to group organizations into families. One organization can have other organizations as its children. The child organizations can also have children. Therefore, any given organization can have a parent, children, and descendants.

The Organization.getParentOrganization method retrieves an organization’s parent. In the following fragment, chorg is a child organization.

Organization porg = chorg.getParentOrganization();

The Organization.getChildOrganizations method retrieves a Collection of the organization’s children. In the following fragment, org is a parent organization.

Collection children = org.getChildOrganizations();

The Organization.getDescendantOrganizations method retrieves multiple generations of descendants, while the Organization.getRootOrganization method retrieves the parentless ancestor of any descendant.

For an example of retrieving an organization hierarchy, see Creating and Retrieving an Organization Hierarchy: Examples.