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Business objects

Business objects provide a representation of the business data for application processing.

• Defined using industry standards
• Map data to database tables or enterprise information systems

• Support remote invocation protocols
• Provide the data programming model foundation for application programming

Process Designer and Integration Designer provide developers with one such common business object model for representing different kinds of business entities from different domains. At development time, this model enables developers to define business objects as XML schema definitions.

At run time, the business data defined by the XML schema definitions is represented as Java Business Objects. In this model, business objects are loosely based on early drafts of the Service Data Object (SDO) specification and provide the complete set of programming model application interfaces required to manipulate business data.

Overview

1. Defining business objects
   
2. Work with business objects
   
3. Special business objects
   
4. Business object parsing mode
   

Key concepts

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