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The external service wizard

The external service wizard is a tool you use to configure your adapter before deploying it to IBM BPM or WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus. The external service wizard establishes a connection to the Siebel application server, discovers business objects and services (based on search criteria you provide), and generates business objects based on the services discovered.

Using IBM Integration Designer, you establish a connection to the Siebel application server to browse the metadata repository on the server. In the wizard, you select the business objects you need. The wizard automatically generates the XSD schemas that represent the business objects and the corresponding Java™ data binding.

Figure 1. Configure Settings for Discovery Configuration window

The result of running the external service wizard is a module that contains the Siebel business objects and services along with the adapter. You deploy this module on IBM BPM or WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus.

For example, if you run the external service wizard to create a module called Outbound, you can see under Data Types, a list of generated business objects, including the objects associated with any faults that might be generated during processing.

Figure 2. An example of the Outbound module generated by the external service wizard

Technical overview