Creating a Metaspace Connection

After creating a project, you can add a Metaspace shared resource to create a metaspace connection and add spaces and space connections.

In the plug-in, a Metaspace shared resource represents a metaspace and a Space shared resource represents a space. The Metaspace shared resource is available at the Resources level. To use ActiveSpaces activities, you must create a metaspace connection, and then add spaces and space connections to the metaspace. The Space and Space Connection shared resources are embedded in the Metaspace shared resource.

Prerequisites

A project is created as described in Creating a Project.

Procedure

  1. In the Project Explorer view, expand the created project.
  2. Right-click the Resources folder and click New > Metaspace to open the ActiveSpaces window.
  3. The resource folder, package name, and resource name of the Metaspace resource are provided by default. If you do not want to use the default configurations, change them accordingly. Click Finish to open the Metaspace editor.

  4. In the MetaSpace panel, specify a unique member name, the discovery URL to set up a connection to the required metaspace, and the listen URL to listen for the incoming connections from metaspace members.
    If you use the PGM protocol, which is the default discovery mechanism, you can leave these URLs blank to use the default values.
  5. Optional: If you do not want to use the default configurations of the other fields, change them accordingly.
  6. Click Test Connection to validate the connection.
  7. If you want to secure the data in the connected metaspace, select the Secure Metaspace check box in the Secure panel and specify the displayed fields described in Metaspace accordingly.
  8. Save the created Metaspace shared resource.

What to do next

After setting up the connection to a metaspace, you can manage the connected metaspace:

  • Click Introspect to retrieve all spaces that currently exist in the connected metaspace. When you select one of the spaces from the space list, the plug-in generates a Space shared resource with the exact space definition as in the metaspace. You have to manually add a space connection for the selected space.
    Note: Introspected spaces are read-only.
  • Click Import to import a space from an XML file. The space definition that was exported from BusinessWorks 5 can also be imported.
    Note: Only the space definition is imported, and you have to manually define all the properties used in the space definition.
  • Click the Space and Space Connection tab to add spaces and space connections.
  • Adding Spaces and Space Connections
    To store data distributed in multiple applications, add spaces to a metaspace and add space connections for a space to define how applications and agents can access the space.