Rebuilding services

Service-Builder provides the ability to build services and models automatically. However, there are a few scenarios where you need to rebuild services against service.xml. The following is a list of possible use cases:

• Use case 1: Change package-path to a different value such as com.bookpub.knowledgebase and / or change name-space to another value such as KBM

• Use case 2: Change the entity name to a different value such as KBArticle

• Use case 3: Update the columns, finders, orders, relationship, references, and exceptions

• Use case 4: Update signatures (and add new methods) in local-service-impl and / or finder-impl and / or update constraint hint in portlet-model-hints.xml

• Use case 5: Use other databases in plugins

In use cases 1 and 2, you should clean up the database and plugin source code and rebuild the services. In use cases 3 and 4, you could simply run the Ant target build-service. In use case 5, you have to use a database other than the default portal database.

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