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Introduction
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:Author:    Stefan Eletzhofer
:Date:      |today|

Problem Statement
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Windchill Business Objects are **numbered** -- e.g. they have unique
IDs.  These numbers are generated by *number generators* configured by
*object initialization rules* in Windchill.

When creating new business objects, it is often desired to fetch the next
generated number from the Windchill system.

Goal
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To provide a abstract API to fetch a new number based on a Business Object
Type.

Non-Goals
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We don't want to hard-code e.g. Oracle Sequence names.  Number generators
are often customized -- we need to use the Windchill API to correctly get a
number.

Repository, Issue Tracker
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**repository**
    git@github.com:nexiles/nexiles.gateway.numberservice.git

**issue tracker**
    https://github.com/nexiles/nexiles.gateway.numberservice/issues

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