Registering a registry with the Registry Manager

The Registry Manager can manage any registries registered to it, including customer created registries.

Procedure

There are two ways to register a registry with the Registry Manager:
  • Define a new registry:
    1. In the HCL Commerce configuration file, in the <Registries></Registries> node, add a new <registry>.
      <registry initialCapacity="500" name="myStoreRegistry" 
      loadFactor="0.75" regMaxSize="500" 
      regClassName="com.ibm.commerce.registry.StoreRegistry"/> 
      where:
      initialCapacity
      The initial capacity of the total number of registry entries in the cache.
      name
      The unique name of the registry.
      loadFactor
      Optional: Defines the load factor percentage of the registry cache. The default value is 0.75.
      regMaxSize
      Optional: The maximum limit of cache entries. The default value is 500.
      regClassName
      The name of the registry class.
  • Explicitly call the addRegistry() method of the RegistryManager class.