Branching Classes

Branching of a class allows you to create a new singleton class for your appliance using an existing template class rather than creating the new appliance from scratch. This is especially useful when you want to add additional functionality to an existing class (e.g., upgrade to a newer version or provide additional parameterization capabilities).

See the Appliance Creation Guide for details on how to create a new singleton class.

Once you have created, configured, and tested the new singleton class you can then drag it into a global so that other applications may use the new class or you can drag it into the application's local catalog so that it may be instantiable by your application in the case where multiple instances of the class can be used in the application.

-- BeckyH - 27 May 2006