CentraSite 10.3 | CentraSite User’s Guide | Type Management | Introduction to Types
 
Introduction to Types
A type (also called an object type) is analogous to a class in object-oriented programming and describes a kind of object that the registry can store. Objects abstract the real-world entities and each object belongs to a particular type that defines its characteristics and behavior.
All items stored in the CentraSite registry are objects of a particular type. Users, policies, and taxonomies are examples of objects that are stored in the registry. An asset is a specific kind of object that represents an artifact in your SOA environment such as a Web service, a REST service, XML schema, or a business process. In other words, all assets are objects, but not all objects are assets.
Types are system-wide objects, that is, they apply to all organizations. Consequently, all organizations within a particular instance of CentraSite use (or have access to) the same global set of types.
CentraSite includes many predefined types. You can customize many of these predefined types and also create custom types of your own.