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Using Connector Xpress as a Generic Metadata Editor

You can use Connector Xpress as a generic editor for non-JNDI or JDBC endpoint types. Using Connector Xpress as a generic editor lets you edit generic metadata that is not intended for a particular implementation bundle. For example, to edit metadata for the Scripting connector, create classes and attributes from the ground-up that are not mapped to a particular schema.

You can create and edit generic metadata in the following ways:

• Create new attributes, rather than selecting discovered attributes in the attribute mapping table.
• Load a set of predefined custom operational attributes from a predefined dictionary file.
• Load selected operational attributes from a predefined dictionary file.
• Load an extended set of metadata properties from a data file.