Howtos / best practices

This is the user guide for the snapshot version of OCCIware.

model a boolean attribute : for now not supported in erocci, rather use an Enum. Which is actually a good practice from a semantic point of view (example : having a VM.isStarted attribute and later discovering that there are additional lifecycle states besides started and stopped).
model complex types : for now not supported in OCCI nor in the Cloud Designer, instead design additional resource kinds.
link / drag and drop between configurations, ex. to link a platform component to the infrastructure Compute whose host / IP it has