1. Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware with Fusion Middleware Control
  2. Manage Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure
  3. Manage Oracle Metadata Services (MDS)

3 Manage Oracle Metadata Services (MDS)

This chapter describes the set of typical tasks you need to manage Oracle Metadata Services (MDS).

It contains the following topics:

Configure and Use Oracle Metadata Services Repository

This section describes the set of typical tasks you need to perform to configure and use an MDS Repository:

  1. Develop a customizable application. How?

  2. Create and register an MDS repository. How?

  3. Deploy the application. How?

  4. Manage an application's MDS repository. How?

Develop a Customizable Application that Requires MDS

To get started with using Oracle Metadata Services (MDS), perform the following tasks:

  1. Understand the concepts of customizable applications and MDS. More

  2. Develop a customizable application that requires MDS. How?

For more information, see "Managing the Metadata Repository" in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Create and Register an MDS Repository

The following instructions describe how to register an Oracle Metadata Services (MDS) repository so you can deploy customizable applications that use the repository:

  1. Decide whether you need a file-based or database-based MDS Repository.

    In general, file-based repositories are used in the development environment and database-based repositories are used in your production environment.

  2. Create and register the file-based MDS repository. How?

    OR

    Create and register a database-based MDS repository:

    1. Use the Repository Creation Utility (RCU) to create the MDS schema in the database. More

    2. Register the MDS repository with Fusion Middleware Control. How?

      Note: You must register the MDS repository with the Oracle WebLogic Server domain before you can deploy an application that uses this MDS repository.

For more information, see "Managing the Metadata Repository" in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Manage an MDS Repository for an ADF Application

After you deploy an application, there are a number of administration tasks you can perform on the application and its metadata.

The steps for this application-management process are:

  1. Change the MDS configuration of an application. How?

  2. Configure an application to use a different metadata repository. How?

  3. Convert from a file to a DB metadata repository. How?

  4. Migrate application metadata from test to production. How?

  5. Backup and recover application metadata. How?

For more information, see Developing Fusion Web Applications with Oracle Application Development Framework.

Metadata Repositories Page

[Process topic for the MR Page help menu]

Use this page to register and de-register the metadata repositories used by the current domain.

The steps for using an MDS Repository are:

  1. Understand the MDS Repository. More

  2. Create and register an MDS Repository. How?

For more information, see "Managing the Metadata Repository" in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware.

MDS Repository Home Page

[Process topic for MDS Repository Home page]

Use this page to manage a selected MDS Repository and the partitions within the repository.

Typically, a partition is created when an application is deployed. Therefore, MDS repository management is performed in the context of an application's lifecycle.

The steps for the MDS application lifecycle are:

  1. Develop a customizable application that requires MDS. How?

  2. Create and register an MDS Repository. How?

  3. Deploy the application. How?

  4. Manage the MDS repository. How?

  5. Manage metadata labels. How?

For more information, see "Managing the Metadata Repository" in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware.