Object Types in the registry

Object types (also called asset types) are concepts in a special taxonomy: The classification scheme is named ObjectType. For any object type, there is an immediate concept child. The concepts value is the fully qualified name of the object type, including the namespace URI, for example {http://namespaces.mycompany.com/jaxr}MyObjectType.

Object type concepts can be obtained by invoking the method findObjectType(String) in the class RegistryFacade.

For administrative purposes, the above method (or, more generally, the use of the object types concept) is not recommended. Instead, you should use the TypeManager API. The only advantage of accessing the object type concept is that this is much faster than creating a type description. Therefore, the concept is typically used at runtime.