9.2.1 General pattern
Subclause 9.2 defines a generic pattern to expose and configure components. It defines the following principles:
A configurable Object shall contain a folder called SupportedTypes that references the list of Types available for configuring components using Organizes References. Sub-folders can be used for further structuring of the set. The names of these sub-folders are vendor specific.
The configured instances shall be components of the configurable Object.
Figure 56 illustrates these principles.
In some cases the SupportedTypes folder on the instance can be different to the one on the Type and can contain only a subset. It can be for example that only one instance of each Type can be configured. In this case the list of supported Types will shrink with each configured component.