Developer's Guide


Creating a Data Manager

This topic lists at a high level the steps needed to create, run, and deploy a Data Manager

Learning a new framework or toolkit can be a daunting task. For most of us, such things are best accomplished by example. In this section, we will walk you through the process of building a sample Management Data Repository (MDR) using the COSMOS SDK. In the process, we hope to help you accomplish the following goals:

The sample MDR you will build contains data for a hypothetical school. This data includes students, teachers, courses, and their relationships. For the duration of this section, we will refer to this sample as the Student-Teacher sample.

To keep things simple, we have provided a sample repository consisting of XML files. While this does not represent a typical production data store, the techniques learned in using the COSMOS framework and tools can be applied to other data stores such as relational databases.

There are also several other example MDRs provided with COSMOS. These examples show how to implement query and registration services with different types of data stores, and with different optional features. They can be downloaded as part of a package on the COSMOS web site.


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