The exisiting set of Metadata can be extended with own types.

The are two types of metadata:

• Base Metadatypes (extends AbstractBaseMetaAttribute)
• Combined Metadatatypes (extends AbstractCombinedMetaAttribute)

Important:

• If you want to use combination of existing types (e.g. the new type and TimeInterval) you could define a combined metadata or let Odysseus do the work for you. In this case you will need to run Odysseus with the JDK and not JRE (i.e. tools.jar must be available).
• Because there is a one to one mapping between a metadata interface and a metadata type, all metadata types must be final.

Creating a new base metadata type

todo

Creating a combined metadata type

todo