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BusinessObject

BusinessObject contains properties and methods that help the discovery service generate object definitions.

The discovery service must provide the following for BusinessObject:

• Name –

  For example, PURCHASEORDER

• BusinessObjectAttributes
• Namespaces – These name spaces are added to the XSD definition.
• TargetNameSpace –

  For example, http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/websphere/j2ca/peoplesoft/purchaseorder.

• ImportedNameSpaces – These name spaces would be added as <import.. in XSD.
• IncludeNameSpaces – These name spaces would be added as <include.. in XSD.

• TopLevel – Boolean if business object is TopLevel and needs a business graph definition
• Metadata – Metadata object representing the business object level application-specific information.

BusinessObject provides two methods:

• Serialize – To obtain the XSD string for the object.
• getGraphDefinition – To obtain the business graph definition for a top-level business object.

Business object structures for enterprise metadata discovery