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Registry Manager
The Registry Manager maintains a set of registries for caching runtime data. Each registry provides methods to enable adding, deleting and refreshing of the registry content.
These methods are available to the URL interface by means of the ListRegistry and the RefreshRegistry commands.
If the data in the tables associated with a registry is changed, we will need to refresh that registry for the change to take effect.
For example, if a new entry is added to the Struts Configuring, the UrlRegistry has to be refreshed. Otherwise, the runtime environment will not recognize the new URL.
The following is a list of registry components, their usage, and their associated database table, class, or file:
Access Control Resources
The entities that are protected by access control. For example, if the action is a view, the resource to be protected is the command that invoked the view, such as com.ibm.commerce.command.ViewCommand. For access control purposes, resources are grouped into resource groups.
ACRESPRIM, ACRESGPRES,ACRESACT, ACRESCGRY, ACRESREL, ACRESGRP, ACRESATREL
Access Control Policies
Authorizes a group of users to perform a set of actions on a set of resources within WebSphere Commerce. Unless authorized within one or more access control policies, users have no access to any functions of the system.
Access Control Policy Groups
Each business model has its own set of access control policies. In order to group the sets of policies within the models, policy groups were created. Policies are explicitly assigned to appropriate policy groups and then organizations can subscribe to one or more of these policy groups.
Business Context Configuration Registry
Defines the different business contexts that are available to the site, as well as the business context set which is a logical grouping of business contexts for a particular type of request. If no business context set is defined for the request, the default business context set is used.
Business context configuration file
Business Policy
Business policies. Sets of rules followed by a store or group of stores that define business processes, industry practices, and the scope and characteristics of a store's or group of stores' offerings)
Business Policy Price List
Caches the relationship between TCs and their related policy IDs and price lists under a specified store.
Calculation
Calculation rules, methods, ranges for coupon, discount, shipping, and taxes
CALRULE, CALMETHOD, CALSCALE, CALRANGE, CALRLOOKUP, STENCALUSG, and CALCODE (where only the default calculationCodes are cached), TAXCGRY, CATENCALCD CATGPCALCD CALCODEMGP, CALRULEMGP SHPJCRULE, TAXJCRULE CRULESCALE
This registry needs to be refreshed whenever coupon, discount, shipping, or taxation configuration has been changed.
Marketing
Campaign, Web activity, and e-Marketing Spot related information, including the rule that determines the marketing content to be displayed to customers and the conditions under which the customers are restricted.
CAMPAIGN, INITIATIVE, EMSPOT, and INTVSCHED
Commerce Commands
WebSphere Commerce commands that enable the WebSphere Commerce Server to look up an implementation and default parameters for a command interface.
Command Execution Triggers
The trigger points that are enabled for WebSphere Commerce commands, such as entry, exit, and exception.
Contract Store
Caches the store which a contract is deployed in.
Currency Manager
Store currency, including the customer or buyer preferred currencies and shopping currencies.
CURLIST, CURCVLIST, CURCONVERT, CURFORMAT, CURFMTDESC, STORELANG, NUMBRUSG, STOREENT (If the column SETCURR changes)
Customer Profile Cache
Caches customer segments and other member groups.
Membership profile management
Payment Rules
Contains the Payment Rules configuration that is registered into the Registry Manager when it is loaded. It is used to hot update the Payment Rules configuration if the customer does not intend to restart the server.
Excluded Default Contract
Caches the default contract which a buyer contract excludes.
ExperimentRegistry
Contains static methods that you can use to get a cached instance of an experiment, and refresh the cached experiments to reflect the current state of data in the database.
Fulfillment
Caches fulfillment-related entities, such as ShippingArrangements.
Gift Registry Rules
When activated, queries the GRREGRULE database table and creates a GiftRegistryRuleEntry for each rule defined into a hashtable that will be used to create an instance of the GiftRegistryRuleRegistry.
GRREGRULE, GiftRegistryRuleRegistry
Language
Specifies a list of languages supported by WebSphere Commerce.
When individually refreshing the Language registry, the Store registry must also be updated.
Marketplace Price List
Caches fixed pricing in marketplace Store.
Member Registration Attributes
Specifies attributes that should automatically be assigned to users and organizations during user and organization registration and some authentication scenarios. Caches information that is used in the file...
WC_EAR/xml/member/MemberRegistrationAttributes.xml
MemberRegistrationAttributes XML file
Payment Plug-in Controller
Registers the payment plug-in controller (PPC).
com.ibm.commerce.payments.plugincontroller.plugin.PPCRegistry
Price Lists
Caches PriceList and PriceListId. Used by PriceListId to get PriceList and verifies if the specific PriceList is already in the cache. If it is not already in the cache, the PriceListRegistry retrieves the PriceList from the TRADEPOSCN database table, returns the TradingPositionContainerAccessBean, and places it into the cache.
Used by priceListOwnerId and priceListName to get PriceListId and verifies if the specific priceListId is already in the cache. If it is not already in the cache, the PriceList is retrieved from the TRADEPOSCN database table and priceList Id is returned and placed in the cache.
Promotion Groups
Promotion Group information.
Promotion Policies
Promotion Policy information.
Promotions
Promotion information.
Quantity Manager
Quantities within orders, including the conversion format rules, quantity formats, and descriptions.
QTYCONVERT, QTYFORMAT, QTYFMTDESC, NUMBRUSG
Store Configuration File
This registry caches the store configuration file (SCF) and needs to be refreshed whenever this file is updated.
Tooling that modifies the store configuration file will automatically refresh this registry. The store configuration file for a given store is located in the path defined by the SCFFile variable in the instance configuration file.
Ship Modes
Caches the shipping mode.
SimpleOffline Plug-in
Registers the SimpleOffline plug-in.
com.ibm.commerce.payments.plugin.simpleoffline.util.SimpleOfflineRegistry
Stores
Store information
Struts Configuration
The Struts configuration files from all WebSphere Commerce Web modules.
Supplier Hub Default Contracts
Caches the default contracts of supplier hosted stores which a supplier hub is associated with.
Supplier Hub User-eligible Buyer Contracts
Caches the buyer contracts which a user is eligible for in supplier hosted stores which a supplier hub is associated with.
Terms and Conditions Mapping
Registers new types of terms and the properties for those terms.
To use new terms for contracts in the Accelerator user interface or the runtime environment, the values must be propagated to this registry.
Terms and Conditions
Caches TermCondition objects.
TCDESC, TCATTR, TERMCOND, com.ibm.commerce.registry.TermConditionRegistry
Trading Agreement
Trading agreements. WebSphere Commerce supports several trading agreement types, including account, contract, RFQs, exchange, and auctions. The trading agreement types are defined in the TRDTYPE table.
URL Commands
WebSphere Commerce controller commands (also called URLs)
URL Views
WebSphere Commerce view commands
Unified Business Flow
Used for approvals, auctions, contracts, and trading
FLOWDOMAIN, FLOWDESC, FLOWTYPE, FLTYPEDESC, FLOW, FLDOMNDESC, FLSTATEGP, FLSTGPDSC, FLSTATEDCT, FLSTDCTDSC, FLSTATEREL, FLTRANSITN, FLTRANSDSC, FLCOMPOSE
Performance Group Counter
Performance group counter
Performance counters
Related tasks
Register a registry with the Registry Manager