Signature

A Signature is a Development Object that describes the remote interface of a component, or modeled entity operation. Signatures for Uniface components and modeled entity operations are automatically generated, but signatures for non-Uniface components that Uniface can call at runtime, must be explicitly defined.

Characteristics

Characteristics

 

Object type code:

sig

Main Development Object?

No.

Part of:

Contains:

Signature Implementation, Signature Operation, Property

Generalization:

Specializations:

Component Signature, Entity Collection Signature, Occurrence Collection Signature

Compilation output:

ComponentName.sig

Depending on the implementations, it may generate the following files: .wsdl, .cfg, .dll, .fml, Java stub, C stub

URI format:

sig:ComponentName

sig:EntityName