InContext Reference Model (IRM)

The IRM is a model of tables and references that can be generated from the existing table definitions and other data. The table definitions contain the so-called hard references between tables. They are stored into a new simple accessible model.

In this model also a basic link between tables and context messages is registered. This is based on a configuration file that describes the available context messages and field types (domains) which are connected to certain context messages. For example the domain that describes the latitude of a GPS location will lead to a map integration. For more information about this file see Context message type definition.

An IRM covers an Application (a set of Packages that belong together and follow the same versioning). The PMC Base VRC is used as the notion of this set of packages. Multiple model versions can be generated, stored, compared and used to generate the InContext Implementation Model (IIM).