Overview

In this section:

Key Terms and Definitions

iWay Hierarchy Manager is a plugin for Eclipse that is used to create and maintain hierarchies within a hierarchy management system. Specifically, this plugin provides design-time interfaces for Eclipse development environments.

The iWay Hierarchy Manager plugin provides the following wizards to create and edit the primary project components:

Tree Navigator. Visualizes the current hierarchy structured by different functional specialties of its nodes.
Graph Viewer. Designs and previews hierarchies.

Caching of dynamic data (data retrieved from external data sources) is supported. It is one of several internal mechanisms that are used to speed up the development time of the hierarchy.

The iWay Hierarchy Manager plugin is delivered as a .zip archive that includes all of the resources required to install the plugin on any Eclipse-based environment.

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Key Terms and Definitions

Throughout this documentation, the following terms are mentioned:

Integrated Development Environment (IDE). In the context of this documentation, this is an Eclipse-based environment, such as Eclipse IDE or iWay Integration Tools (iIT).
Hierarchy Management System (HMS). Provides the ability to manage complex hierarchies that are spread across one or more domains.

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