Petals Master User Guide


This document describes the installation and usage of Petals Master, the web application for SOA Gorvernance, by eBM WebSourcing.


Petals Master Team
Olivier FABRE <olivier.fabre@petalslink.com>

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  (CC) EBM WebSourcing - This work is licensed under the Creative
  
  
  Table of Contents
  Structure of the document ........................................................................................................................ 3
  1. Pre-requisites ...................................................................................................................................... 4
  2. Presentation of Petals Master ................................................................................................................. 5
  3. Installation ......................................................................................................................................... 6
  3.1. Configure a database and a Lucene index ...................................................................................... 6
  3.2. Installing the application ............................................................................................................ 8
  3.3. Accessing the application ........................................................................................................... 8
  4. Petals Master Administration ............................................................................................................... 10
  4.1. Initialize Petals Master Database ................................................................................................ 10
  4.2. What does the button "Rebuild Search Index" do? ......................................................................... 10
  5. Petals Master organizations management ................................................................................................ 11
  5.1. Create an organization .............................................................................................................. 11
  5.2. View/edit an organization ......................................................................................................... 11
  5.3. Add posts to an organization ..................................................................................................... 14
  5.4. Create a post .......................................................................................................................... 14
  5.5. View/edit a post ...................................................................................................................... 15
  5.6. Delete a post .......................................................................................................................... 15
  5.7. Create a person ....................................................................................................................... 15
  5.8. View/edit a person .................................................................................................................. 16
  5.9. Delete a person ....................................................................................................................... 16
  5.10. How does the search engine work ? .......................................................................................... 16
  5.11. Search organizations .............................................................................................................. 17
  5.12. Search persons ...................................................................................................................... 17
  5.13. Search posts ......................................................................................................................... 18
  6. Petals Master services management ....................................................................................................... 20
  6.1. How to import a service ........................................................................................................... 20
  6.2. View service's information (purpose, endpoints, actors, etc.) ............................................................ 21
  6.3. View service's endpoints ........................................................................................................... 23
  6.4. Search services ....................................................................................................................... 26
  7. Petals Master Runtime Management ...................................................................................................... 27
  7.1. Add a Runtime Manager .......................................................................................................... 27
  7.2. Edit a Runtime Manager and Synchronize Execution Environment with Petals Master Registry .............. 27
  7.3. Edit an Execution Environment ................................................................................................. 28
  7.4. Edit a Processor ...................................................................................................................... 29
  7.5. Edit an Environement Federation ............................................................................................... 29
  7.6. Search Runtime Manager, Processor, Execution Environments and Environment Federations ................. 30
  8. Petals Master Web Services APIs ......................................................................................................... 31
  8.1. The UDDI WS API ................................................................................................................. 31
  8.2. The Petals Master specific API .................................................................................................. 31
  9. Adding custom Category/Identifier systems for Organizations/Services/Endpoints .......................................... 33
  9.1. Adding custom categorisation system and associated values ............................................................ 33
  9.2. Adding custom identification system ........................................................................................... 34