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I have worked in the Guidewire space for the better part of 15 years, most of which has been supporting PolicyCenter. A number of those projects have similar modifications, this article covers one of them. Renewals are a common transaction that requires attention to meet desired business requirements. As is said, OOTB code is an…

I have been using Guidewire Gosu for 12 years, and little did I know about the expense of using a simple dot until I invested time and looked deeper.  In this blog, we will break down what happens when we use the brief dot notation. So whether developing or maintenance is on your mind, strap…

In another blog, we covered some basics on the query language and how to make it perform better. However, if you are like me, you want to understand more internals to be better informed when making decisions. This blog takes a deep dive into the inner workings of queries and caches used by Guidewire (GW)….

In Guidewire PolicyCenter, one of the core objects is PolicyPeriod. It is not uncommon to see someone try to extend the PolicyPeriod with the rationale, “This change seems more policy related and does not fit on the line or one of its sub objects.” The problem is that PolicyPeriod is NOT EffDated (effective dated), it…

In version 10+, Guidewire has added a new intrinsic datatype to Gosu which allows objects to be created and used very much like javascript.  The functionality, while very nice, is not as complete as it is in javascript but may be in future releases. This style is mostly used for integrations but can be very useful…

In OO parlance we are very used to inheritance, polymorphism and subtypes.  These let us create objects which share common properties and methods that we can override within the different classes.  Since these objects come from the same base object, they can further be cast from one type to another, as long as the parent…

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,…

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…

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…