Relationship Vocabulary

OpenEA Community 1.5.2 seeds 25 governed relationship types. A relationship is valid only for the source/target combinations listed below. Inverse labels are display semantics; OpenEA stores one relationship row rather than a duplicate inverse row.

Key	Forward label	Inverse label	Valid source → target
requires	requires	required by	Business Product → Business Capability
realizes	realizes	realized by	Business Process → Business Capability
owns	owns	owned by	Organization → Business Product Organization → Business Capability Organization → Application
performs	performs	performed by	Organization → Business Process
participates_in	participates in	has participant	Role → Business Process
accountable_for	accountable for	accountable role/organization	Role → Business Capability Role → Application Organization → Data Object
supports	supports	supported by	Application → Business Capability Application → Business Process Application Service → Business Process
provides	provides	provided by	Application → Application Service
depends_on	depends on	depended on by	Application → Application Technology → Technology Initiative / Project → Initiative / Project
integrates_with	integrates with	integrates with	Application → Application
creates	creates	created by	Application → Data Object
reads	reads	read by	Application → Data Object
updates	updates	updated by	Application → Data Object
system_of_record_for	system of record for	system of record	Application → Data Object
uses	uses	used by	Business Process → Data Object Application → Technology Application Service → Technology
standardizes	standardizes	standardized by	Organization → Technology
changes	changes	changed by	Initiative / Project → Application Initiative / Project → Business Process
introduces	introduces	introduced by	Initiative / Project → Application Initiative / Project → Technology
retires	retires	retired by	Initiative / Project → Application Initiative / Project → Technology
improves	improves	improved by	Initiative / Project → Business Capability
conforms_to	conforms to	conformed to by	Architecture Decision → Architecture Principle Application → Architecture Principle Technology → Architecture Principle
deviates_from	deviates from	deviated from by	Architecture Decision → Architecture Principle Application → Architecture Principle
affects	affects	affected by	Architecture Decision → Application Architecture Decision → Technology Architecture Decision → Business Capability Architecture Decision → Initiative / Project
selects	selects	selected by	Architecture Decision → Technology
supersedes	supersedes	superseded by	Architecture Decision → Architecture Decision

Relationship selection behavior

In the browser relationship form, valid relationship choices are grouped alphabetically by forward relationship label and then alphabetically by target object type. Selecting a rule filters the target selector to that rule's target type.

Only non-archived target records are offered. Draft, Active, and Inactive records are eligible. Target records are sorted alphabetically by name. Changing the relationship rule clears any previously selected target before the valid target list is reloaded.

The same behavior is used when creating and editing relationships. The server independently validates every submitted source/type/target combination against this governed vocabulary before saving.

Relationship-specific properties

Most relationship types use the common relationship metadata only. integrates_with also defines governed properties:

• Integration type
• Protocol
• Direction
• Criticality
• Description
• Data exchanged

Common relationship metadata

• Description
• Criticality
• Confidence
• Valid From / Valid Until
• Source
• Created / Updated timestamps
• Archived state