Chapter 6. Using The Adapter With Siebel Business Services; Understanding Business Services - IBM 4.6.x User Manual

Chapter 6. Using the adapter with Siebel business services

v "Understanding business services"
v "Verb processing with business services" on page 75
v "Events detection with business services" on page 76
Note: This chapter may include references to Event and Archive business

Understanding business services

This section explains what a business service is and describes how to create
business objects that support business services. The following topics are covered:
"Description of business services"
"Processing business objects that support business services" on page 74
Description of business services
A Siebel business service is an entity in Siebel that encapsulates and simplifies the
use of some sets of functionality, such as moving and converting data formats
between the Siebel application and external applications. Siebel business
components and business objects are objects that are typically tied to specific data
and tables in the Siebel data model. Siebel business services, on the other hand, are
not tied to specific objects, but rather operate on objects to achieve a particular
goal.
The adapter supports EAI Siebel Adapter, a generic business service provided by
Siebel; Siebel-defined Application Service Interface (ASI); and custom-written
business services.
EAI Siebel Adapter and ASIs are treated similarly with respect to IBM business
objects. They implement similar methods that are used as verbs for processing the
IBM business objects. EAI Siebel Adapter can take any integration object that is
based on a Siebel business object. The IBM WebSphere Business Integration
adapter for Siebel therefore supports EAI Siebel Adapter by representing an
integration object with an IBM business object. Similarly, the adapter supports
Siebel ASIs by representing the integration objects implementing them with an IBM
business object.
Custom-written business objects are treated differently. Because they can
implement any method, the IBM business object represents the service itself, not an
integration object. For more information, see "Custom business service support" on
page 76.
EAI Siebel Adapter and ASIs can be treated by the adapter as custom-written
business services, and IBM business objects can be created to directly represent
these services, although this is not recommended. See Chapter 5, "Creating
business objects," on page 49.
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components, business objects, and tables. These references are synonymous
with references to CW Event and CW Archive that appear in earlier
versions, and with references to IBM Event and IBM Archive that appear in
Siebel 7.5
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