Abstract: A system is provided that carries out object traversal in a product lifecycle management system. The system may process a received set of traversal rules in a determined precedence order for a received list of input objects to recursively acquire from a data store a list of child objects related to the input objects based on the traversal rules. The traversal rules may be processed in the precedence order determined based at least in part on a number of parent types in a hierarchical arrangement that specifies relationships between object types for a source type of object specified by each respective traversal rule. For each respective traversal rule, a set based query may be carried out on the data store to determine child objects for the input objects having one of a type or a parent type corresponding to the source type associated with the respective traversal rule.

Abstract: A system is provided that carries out object traversal in a product lifecycle management system. The system may process a received set of traversal rules in a determined precedence order for a received list of input objects to recursively acquire from a data store a list of child objects related to the input objects based on the traversal rules. The traversal rules may be processed in the precedence order determined based at least in part on a number of parent types in a hierarchical arrangement that specifies relationships between object types for a source type of object specified by each respective traversal rule. For each respective traversal rule, a set based query may be carried out on the data store to determine child objects for the input objects having one of a type or a parent type corresponding to the source type associated with the respective traversal rule.