Saving Objects in the Registry

After you have created an object and set its attributes, you publish it to the Registry by calling either the LifeCycleManager.saveObjects method or an object-specific save method like BusinessLifeCycleManager.saveOrganizations or BusinessLifeCycleManager.saveServices. You always publish a collection of objects, not a single object. The save methods return a BulkResponse object that contains the keys (that is, the unique identifiers) for the saved objects. The following code fragment saves an organization and retrieves its key:

// Add organization and submit to registry
// Retrieve key if successful
Collection orgs = new ArrayList();
orgs.add(org);
BulkResponse response = blcm.saveOrganizations(orgs);
Collection exceptions = response.getExceptions();
if (exceptions == null) {
    System.out.println("Organization saved");

    Collection keys = response.getCollection();
    Iterator keyIter = keys.iterator();
    if (keyIter.hasNext()) {
        javax.xml.registry.infomodel.Key orgKey =
             (javax.xml.registry.infomodel.Key) keyIter.next();
        String id = orgKey.getId();
        System.out.println("Organization key is " + id);
    }
}

If one of the objects exists but some of the data have changed, the save methods update and replace the data. This normally results in the creation of a new version of the object (see Changing the State of Objects in the Registry).