About Service Action, Atomic Action, and Action Processor Relationships

When modeling services, you define the relationship among service actions, action processors, and atomic actions. In Activation Network cartridges, you link these entities in a 1:1:1 relationship. In Activation Service cartridges, you link these entities in a 1:1:many or in a 1:many:many relationship.

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In most cases, you will not use the service models created for Activation Network cartridges in customer specific solutions. For Activation Network cartridges, these entities mainly provide a complete service model that can be used to test the cartridge action processors upon cartridge delivery.

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