---
title: ApplicationTypes
description: Service for reading and listing the available application types. Application types act as templates for policy sets, and define how to compare resources and index policies. OpenAM provides a default application type that represents web resources called iPlanetAMWebAgentService
component: pingam
version: 8.1
page_id: pingam:entity-reference:sec-amster-entity-applicationtypes
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingam/8.1/entity-reference/sec-amster-entity-applicationtypes.html
section_ids:
  sec-amster-entity-applicationtypes-realm-ops: Realm Operations
  sec-amster-entity-applicationtypes-realm-ops-query: query
  sec-amster-entity-applicationtypes-realm-ops-read: read
---

# ApplicationTypes

## Realm Operations

Service for reading and listing the available application types. Application types act as templates for policy sets, and define how to compare resources and index policies. OpenAM provides a default application type that represents web resources called iPlanetAMWebAgentService

Resource path:

```
/applicationtypes
```

Resource version: `1.0`

### query

Lists the application types using a query filter

**Usage**

```
am> query ApplicationTypes --realm Realm --filter filter
```

**Parameters**

* *\--filter*

  A CREST formatted query filter, where "true" will query all. Fields that can be queried: \[\*]

### read

Reads an individual application type by the provided application type name

**Usage**

```
am> read ApplicationTypes --realm Realm --id id
```

**Parameters**

* *\--id*

  The unique identifier for the resource.