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Business object information
A business object contains application-specific information (metadata) about how the adapter should process the business object as well as the operation to be performed on the business object. The name of the business object is generated by the external service wizard in accordance with the naming convention for the adapter.
- Application-specific information
Application-specific information (ASI) is metadata that specifies adapter-dependent information about how to process business objects for the adapter for SAP Software. When the external service wizard generates a business object, it automatically generates a business object definition, which is saved as an XSD (XML Schema Definition) file. The business object definition contains the application-specific information for that business object. If you want to change the generated ASI, you can modify the metadata values either from the Properties tab in the Business Integration perspective of IBM Integration Designer or by using the business object editor.- Supported data operations
For outbound processing, an operation is the name of the action implemented by the adapter so that the client application component can perform the operation on the SAP server. The adapter uses the application-specific information (ASI) inside the business object definition to implement the operation. The name of the operation typically indicates the type of action to be implemented, such as create or update. For inbound processing, adapters implement an operation by delivering events to their endpoints. For inbound processing, the action associated with the event varies depending on the interface (ALE or Advanced event processing). When ALE is the interface, the action is pushed to the adapter and the adapter delivers the event to an endpoint. When Advanced event processing is the interface, the event status is polled by the adapter and processed accordingly.- Naming conventions
When the external service wizard generates a business object, it provides a name for the business object that is based on the name of the corresponding business function in the SAP server. The convention applied by the SAP server when naming a business object will vary slightly depending on whether the name is for a BAPI business object, an ALE business object, an Advanced event processing business object, or a Query interface for SAP Software business object.