Create the business glossary model

Create the business glossary model
Websphere Business Services Fabric v612
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1. Create the business glossary model
   1. Prerequisites
   2. Overview
   3. Create a new UML project and UML model
   4. Apply a business glossary profile to a UML model
   5. Create a glossary term class
   6. Apply a stereotype to a class
   7. Related links

Create the business glossary model

The Industry Business Glossary is a taxonomy of business terms in an industry. It also provides information about relationships with other industry-specific terms.

WebSphere Business Services Fabric enables interoperability of heterogeneous systems in an enterprise ecosystem through business services metadata that includes roles, channels, assertions, and policies. To enable the consistency and reuse of the associated business services, it is very important to use industry standards to define the metadata. The Industry Business Glossary is a common vocabulary that represents the taxonomy of business terms from various industry standards.

The Industry Business Glossary is based on an industry standard that represents business objects or data types. You can source the content for the Industry Business Glossary from any of the data standards, such as BOM models, messaging models, and industry dictionaries. An Industry Business Glossary can source content from multiple industry standards, which allows you to choose one of the standards as an enterprise-wide information or canonical model for business services.

The Industry Business Glossary provides predefined and extensible business services metadata (based on industry standards) that serves as a framework to improve business services consistency and reuse.

Industry Business Glossary is a taxonomy of business terms for a specific industry. The glossaries also provide information about relationships with other industry-specific terms. At design-time, the Industry Business Glossary is expressed as an UML model and the Rational Software Architect is the recommended tools. The IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric Modeling Tool is used to visualize and extend the Industry Business Glossary. At runtime, the Industry Business Glossary is made available as a Fabric Content Archive and uses the Fabric tools.

After the Fabric Model Tool plug-in is available, you can create a business glossary model, which is comprised of standard industry terms that are represented as ontology classes with properties in UML notation. The industry core model comprises of assertions, roles, and channels.

Prerequisites

1. The Fabric modeling tool is installed.
2. The following Fabric modeling projects are available in your workspace(s().

Overview

Perform the following steps to create the business glossary model:

1. Create a new UML project/model
2. Apply a business glossary profile to the UML model
3. Create a class 
4. Apply a stereotype to the class 

Create a new UML project and UML model

1. Create a new UML project (i.e VehicleLoanExtensions).
2. Create a new UML model with the following attributes:
• Type the File Name (i.e VehicleLoanExtensionsModel).
• In the Templates section, click Blank Model
• Clear the Create a default diagram in the new model check box
3. The new UML project/model are created().

Apply a business glossary profile to a UML model

1. Apply a business glossary profile (i.e glossary_profile\WBSFBusinessGlossaryProfile.epx) profile.
2. The business glossary profile is applied().

Create a glossary term class

1. Create a package (i.e glossary).
2. Create a class (i.e CustomerTypeEnumeration).
3. A class is created ().

Apply a stereotype to a class

1. Apply a stereotype (i.e GlossaryTerm) to a class (i.e CustomerTypeEnumeration).
2. The stereotype is applied().

Related links

1. Getting Started with IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric V6.1
2. IBM Rational Software Architect Version 7.0.0.3 Information Center