This package contains classes that allow the creation
and manipulation of service tags.
This com.sun.servicetag package is intended for
Sun internal use only.
Service Tag
A service tag is an XML-based data structure that contains identifying
information about an instance of a product or component on a system.
Service Tag Registry
A service tag registry is a XML-based registry that contains
the service tags of all the tagged components on a system. The
service tag registry is present on systems that have the
Service Tags software installed.
Registration Data
A registration data is a container of one or more
service tags that identify the
components for product registration and will be used to interface
with the Sun Connection registration services.
This package contains the methods to create service tags, set up the
registration data for product registration, add service tags to and
remove them from the system service tag registry.
All methods defined in this package will throw {@code NullPointerException}
if {@code null} is passed in any input parameter unless it is stated otherwise.
In addition, they are multi-thread safe.
BrowserSupport class.
The implementation of the com.sun.servicetag API needs to be
compiled with JDK 5 as well since the consumer of this API
may require to support JDK 5 (e.g.
A
RegistrationData object is a container of one or more
RegistrationData.getServiceTags service tags that identify the
components for product registration.
Each
RegistrationData object has a
RegistrationData.getRegistrationURNuniform resource name (URN) as its identifier.
It also has an environment map with
the following elements:
A service tag registry is a XML-based registry containing
the list of
ServiceTag service tags installed in the system.
The
Registry class provides interfaces
to add, remove, update, and get a service tag from a service tag
registry.
This
Registry class may not be supported
on all systems.