The Type Manager is a service included in the Sakai 2.0 Common Services that manages and persists OKI-style Type. The Type Manager adds a system generated unique identifier that can be used distinguish one type from another.
The type manager provides methods that perform the following functions:
- Get a type given unique identifier.
- Get a type given authority, domain, and keyword.
- Create a new type.
- Save (update) a type.
- Delete a type.