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Programming techniques

These techniques illustrate how to effectively program business objects using the business object framework.

• Arrays in business objects
  

  You can define arrays for an element in a business object so that the element can contain more than one instance of data.

• Create nested business objects
  

  You can use the setWithCreate function to create nested business objects within a parent business object.

• Differentiating identically named elements
  

  You must provide unique names for business object elements and attributes.

• Differentiating identically named properties
  When multiple XSDs with the same namespace define the same named types, an incorrect type can be accidentally referenced.
• Resolving property names that contain periods
  Property names in an XSD may contain a period (".") as one of many valid characters, while in a SDO they are also used to show indexing in a property of multiple cardinality. This may cause resolution problems in certain situations.
• Support for null business objects
  This scenario involves an outside system communicating with IBM BPM through XML wrapped inside of a SOAP message. When the enclosed element is nillible and has xsi:nil="true", then the resulting DataObject which is created in IBM BPM is null.
• Use the Sequence object to set data order
  Some XSDs are defined in a way that makes the order that the data occurs in the XML have special significance.
• Use Any data types
  This section provides programming techniques for using Any data types.

Business objects programming