Glossary:Directed inheritance

Directed Inheritance, directed inheritance

A method by which a class inherits characteristics directly from a specified parent class, regardless of any defined pattern inheritance.

For example, the PegaSample-CustomerRequest class (part of the PegaSample sample application) employs directed inheritance, and its directed parent class is Work-Cover-DupByCus. Based on pattern inheritance, the parent class is PegaSample.

A method by which a class inherits characteristics directly from a specified parent class, regardless of any defined pattern inheritance. For example, the PegaSample-CustomerRequest class (part of the PegaSample sample application) employs directed inheritance, and its directed parent class is Work-Cover-DupByCus. Based on pattern inheritance, the parent class is PegaSample.

A method by which a class inherits characteristics directly from a specified parent class, regardless of any defined pattern inheritance. For example, the PegaSample-CustomerRequest class (part of the PegaSample sample application) employs directed inheritance, and its directed parent class is Work-Cover-DupByCus. Based on pattern inheritance, the parent class is PegaSample.

A Pega Platform method, distinct from a Java method. An operation that can be performed by one step of an activity ( Rule-Obj-Activity rule type), or by a Parse Structured rule ( Rule-Parse-Structured rule type).

The rules that define the behavior of your application. You can create classes to gather rules related to a specific object in your application. For example, in a recruitment application, you can create a class that contains rules that define the flow of the recruitment process. Classes can contain other classes, hence a class that contains another class is called a parent class, while a class that is contained by another class is called a child class. A child class can reuse, or inherit, any of the rules that are defined for its parent class, which helps to build your application faster and more efficiently.

An optional method where a class inherits characteristics from other classes and affects the first steps in the rule resolution algorithm. The name of the parent class is based on an initial portion or substring of the name of the class. Pattern inheritance is set in the Rule-Obj-Class rule.

The PegaSample sample application lets you view and study basic elements without creating new rules. This sample application is built completely from standard rules in Pega Platform.

The PegaSample sample application lets you view and study basic elements without creating new rules. This sample application is built completely from standard rules in Pega Platform.

A parent case of one or more related cases. Typically, one work party, such as the customer party, is present in the cover case and in all of the covered cases that are associated with it. The covered cases are the children in a parent-child relationship. A cover can be a parent of other cover objects (and their children). Use a case type rule in the cover class to define the covered objects for the parent cover.