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Outbound processing
WebSphere Adapter for Siebel Business Applications supports synchronous outbound processing. Assume, the component sends a request in the form of a WebSphere business object hierarchy to the adapter. The adapter processes the request and returns a WebSphere business object hierarchy that represents the result of the operation.
The following illustration shows the outbound processing flow for WebSphere Adapter for Siebel.
When the adapter receives a WebSphere business object hierarchy, the adapter processes it as follows:
- The adapter extracts the metadata from the WebSphere business object hierarchy.
- It identifies the appropriate Siebel objects to access (for example, Siebel business objects and business components, or Siebel business services, integration objects, and integration components) depending on the objects against which the artifacts were generated.
- The adapter extracts the outbound operation to be performed from the WebSphere business object hierarchy.
- After accessing the required Siebel objects, the adapter retrieves, updates, deletes, or creates a Siebel business component hierarchy or performs the corresponding business service method on the integration component hierarchy.
- If there are updates (Create, Update, and/or Delete), the adapter populates that Siebel object (business or integration component hierarchy) with data from the hierarchy of WebSphere business objects.
Supported outbound operations
The adapter supports the following outbound operations: ApplyChanges, Create, Delete, Exists, Retrieve, Retrieve All, and Update.
The following table lists and describes each of these operations.
| Operation | Description |
|---|---|
| ApplyChanges | Updates the business component based on the delta information. |
| Create | Creates the business component. |
| Delete | Deletes the business component and its child components. |
| Exists | Checks for the existence of incoming business objects. The output business object, "ExistsResult" is returned with the Boolean value populated. |
| Retrieve | Specifies the value of the business component. |
| RetrieveAll | Retrieves multiple instances of the same business component. Populates the multiple instances of the same business component as the container business graph. |
| Update | Updates the Siebel application with the incoming business object. |
- Outbound operations
Application components must invoke operations such as data retrieval from a database. An operation is the action that an adapter can perform on the database during the outbound processing. The name of the operation indicates the type of action that the adapter performs, such as Create or Delete.