Service Configuration specifications capture the details about the resources used by the service. Because these details can change frequently, service configurations provide a versioning capability that enables the management of the changes to a service over time. As the facts about a service changes over time, new versions of the service configuration can be created.
When you define a Service Configuration specification in Design Studio, you determine the collection of resources that can be assigned to the service. You define these resources as configuration items. The configuration items can have characteristics that enable you to express details about the configuration. The configuration items can be arranged hierarchically. See "Working with Configurations" for more information.
When working with Service Configuration specifications, see the following topics:
You can add existing service configurations to a Service specification. The service configuration and the Service specification do not have to be in the same project.
To add an existing service configuration to a Service specification:
Open an existing Service Specification entity in the Service Specification editor or create a new Service Specification entity.
See "Creating New Specifications" for more information.
Click the Service Configurations tab.
Click Select.
The Add Entities dialog box appears.
Select the service configuration and click OK.
The service configuration you selected appears in the table.
From the File menu, select Save.
You can create and add a new service configurations to a Service specification. The service configuration and the Service specification do not have to be in the same project. You add a service configuration in the Service Configurations tab in the Service Specification editor.
To add a new service configuration to a Service specification:
Open an existing Service Specification entity in the Service Specification editor or create a new Service Specification entity.
See "Creating New Specifications" for more information.
Click the Service Configurations tab.
Click Add.
The Service Configuration Specification Wizard appears.
In the Project field, select the name of the project to which the new specification should be added.
In the Name field, enter a name for the new specification.
This is the name that will appear in UIM.
(Optional) Select a location.
By default, Design Studio saves the entity to your default workspace location. You can enter a folder name in the Folder field or select a location different from the system-provided default. To select a different location:
Click the Folder field Browse button.
Navigate to the directory in which to save the entity.
Click OK.
Click Finish.
The service configuration you added appears in the table.
From the File menu, select Save.
Use the Service Configuration Specification editor to define Service Configuration specifications.
When working with the Service Configuration Specification editor, see the following topics:
Use the Service Specs tab to select, add, and remove the Service specifications that use the Service Configuration specifications. This tab identifies the Service specifications that use the Service Configuration specification. You must use this tab to relate a Service specification to its Service Configuration specification only when the Service specification and Service Configuration specification need to be in separate cartridges, and the Service specification can exist without the Service Configuration specification. If both the Service specification and Service Configuration specification are in the same cartridge, make the association in the Service Specification editor.
| Field | Use |
|---|---|
| Service Specification | Displays the name of the Service specification. |
| Cartridge | Displays the name of the cartridge project into which the Service specification is built. |
| Select | Click to select an existing Service specification. |
| Open | Click to open the selected Service specification in the Service Specification editor. |
| Remove | Click to remove a Service specification. |
| Add | Click to add a new Service specification. |