Alternate Name: Resource Domain::Resource ABE::PhysicalResource ABE::Physical Role ABE
Category: [a] Class
This is a concrete class that represents any type of physical resource that can play a physical adapter role. The Adapter role enables a piece of Hardware to adapt its use. For example, sometimes Cards and Chassis evolve along separate paths, causing future versions of one to no longer be physically compatible with present and/or future versions of the other. The solution to this is to use an intermediate piece of Hardware, called an Adapter, to extend the existing physical structure of an EquipmentHolder to enable otherwise incompatible Equipment to be plugged into an EquipmentHolder. The Adapter conceptually creates a new type of EquipmentHolder that fits into the existing EquipmentHolder. This enables Cards that would otherwise be physically and/or electrically incompatible with the existing EquipmentHolder to be supported, by interfacing to the old EquipmentHolder via the new Adapter.
This was created from the Frameworx 16.0 Model