Preface

This guide explains how to extend Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management (UIM) through standard Java practices using Oracle Communications Design Studio, which is an Eclipse-based integrated development environment. This guide includes references to both applications, and often directs the reader to see the Design Studio Help and the UIM Help for instructions on how to perform specific tasks.

This guide includes information about the UIM entity managers. This guide also includes the list of Java managers which provide UIM's NFV Orchestration functionality. Similar to extending UIM and using the UIM APIs, the information in this guide applies to extending the NFV Orchestration functionality as well.

This guide should be read after reading UIM Concepts, because this guide assumes that the reader has a working knowledge of UIM architecture and concepts. This guide should be read from start to finish because the information presented in a chapter often builds upon information presented in a preceding chapter.

This guide includes examples of typical development code used in given situations. The guidelines and examples may not be applicable in every situation.

Audience

This guide is intended for developers who implement code to extend UIM. The developers should have a good working knowledge of XML and Java development and, in particular, JPA, standard Java practices, and J2EE principles. In working with the NFV Orchestration functionality, this guide assumes you have a working knowledge of NFV concepts.

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