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Have you ever been in one piece of code and need to alert an unlinked piece of code to what is going on?  This is sometimes very tricky to solve.  Enter Flag Monkey Problem I am in a handler function, which calls into a plugin.  The plugin needs to tell the serializer that in certain cases it needs to perform a certain way.  The serializer is not part of the plugin so how can you let it know when it gets to that code, what is going on. Solution There is a little-known facilit

Within any Guidewire environment that runs more than one xCenter, there are a few ways to achieve this.  For many this includes running multiple Studios.  There are better, more streamlined ways to work which will save time while starting, debugging, and running your apps. Problem Running multiple xCenters requires either manually starting Studio and then clicking the run/debug icon to start the server or starting up a command window and running gwb runServer.  In either case

Few Words On Guidewire ORM Query.make() is the heart of all database queries.  Queries are made against entities (e.g.  .eti, .etx) which are complex database objects.  xCenter uses an Object Relational Mapper (ORM) to retrieve and save all data from the Database Management System (DBMS).  By using an ORM, the query logic remains DBMS agnostic, so it does not matter if we are using MS SQL, Oracle, DB2 or H2, the query language is abstracted away from us.  Most of the SQL prod