Using a uddi key to create a business service in OSB

Question

I want to be able to use a service registry key when creating a business service in OSB. I've found documentation on how to do this in Oracle ESB, but not in OSB.
From the documentation for OSB, I can only find a way to synchronize the business services imported from the service registry (when i search through the imported services there is no mention of the uddi key that i can see). I can choose to auto-import when setting up the registry, but I'm not sure exactly what this behavior does.
From the console documentation (http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13159_01/osb/docs10gr3/consolehelp/uddi.html)
"You can use the Auto-Import Status page to synchronize changes to a service with those present in the registry. Upon any changes to a service in the registry, Oracle Service Bus provides notification of the change on the Auto-Import Status page which lists all out-of-sync services. You can then synchronize the service in the Oracle Service Bus Console with the corresponding service in the UDDI registry."
This setting seems to automatically update the endpoint of the business service wihtout that administrator having to do anything, but what is actually being done? Is the service bus updating the endpoint as soon as it has been notified of a change or when i view/call the service is the endpoint being looked up?
Am I missing something??
Edited by: user498458 on Apr 27, 2009 11:30 AM

Answer 1

I took your advice and re factored the Receive class so it had all the functionality I needed except two methods which would then be overridden in the derived classes. What I had a hard time understanding is once an object of class say SpecialReceive extends Receive it can be referred to as Receive yet still maintain that it's a SpecialReceive.
What I mean is if I give a Receive object to some method and this method has no idea that this object is actually SpecialReceive and it calls a method say run() which gets overridden by the SpecialReceive. I thought that since this method has no idea what type of Receive this object is it will execute Receive's run(). But it actually does know what type of class it is and it executes the right run() method (the one that SpecialReceive overrides).
After I realized this there is no more need for casting.
Thanks everyone for your contributions.