Typically you do not need to handle variants and baselines differently. Because they build on the same content type model, and because variants include all properties available for baselines, they support the same operations. The Variant Model describes the variant meta-model, and the Variant Service provides access to baselines and variants; the sections below describe both.

Component-specific development topics are documented in the respective manuals and only summarized in Section 5.6.2.5, “Further Development Topics”.