Service EJB rules - Completing the New or Save As form

Service EJB rules - Completing the Create, Save As, or Specialization form

Note: Service EJB rules are no longer being actively developed, and are being considered for deprecation in upcoming releases. Using Service EJB rules does not follow Pega development best practices. Consider other implementation options instead.

Records can be created in various ways. You can add a new record to your application or copy an existing one. You can specialize existing rules by creating a copy in a specific ruleset, against a different class or (in some cases) with a set of circumstance definitions. You can copy data instances but they do not support specialization because they are not versioned.

Based on your use case, you use the Create, Save As, or Specialization form to create the record. The number of fields and available options varies by record type. Start by familiarizing yourself with the generic layout of these forms and their common fields using the following Developer Help topics:

This information identifies the key parts and options that apply to the record type that you are creating.

Note: Create a Service Package data instance before creating a Service EJB rule; the name of the Service Package data instance is the first key part of a collection of Service EJB rules.

Create a Service EJB rule by selecting Service EJB from the Integration-Services category.

A Service EJB rule has three key parts:

Field	Description
Customer Package Name	Select the name of the service package (instance of the Data-Admin-ServicePackage class). The service package must exist before you can create the service rule. See About Service Package data instances. If your application is to process requests from this service asynchronously through a background agent, define a Service Request Processor data instance ( Data-Admin-RequestProcessor-Service class) with this Customer Package Name value as key.
Customer Class Name	Enter the name of the service class. This is an arbitrary text value that is a Java identifier, not an instance of the Rule-Obj-Class class. The service package name and service class name group service rules. See How to enter a Java identifier.
Identifier	Enter the name of the service method. This name is an arbitrary identifier; it is not related to a Rule-Method instance. The service method named describes what the service rule does. See How to enter a Java identifier.