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Create a business vocabulary

A business vocabulary is a container for the business items, messages, and errors that can be exported and used in a Business Design environment inside WebSphere Business Compass or IBM WebSphere Business Modeler.

The contents of a business vocabulary provide business-friendly representations of more technical objects that they are based on.

Procedure

1. Change to the Business Integration View.
2. Right-click the library where you want to create the vocabulary, and select New > Business Vocabulary.

   The New Business Vocabulary wizard is displayed.

   • The Library combination box drop down menu contains the list of libraries in the current workspace.

   • The Namespace name field enables you to enter a namespace for your library. For our example, the Namespace name box is disabled and prepopulated with the namespace for the selected library using the following structure, “http://< mylib>" where mylib is the name of your library.

   • The Folder name field enables you to enter or select a folder to contain your library.

   • The Name field enables you to enter a name for your business vocabulary. The Name field accepts alphanumeric characters, including dashes and dots.

3. Enter the wizard fields and click Finish.

   The business vocabulary is created under Data Types in the in the library folder you have selected.

   

• Create a business item
  Create business items within a business vocabulary for use in a Business Design environment inside WebSphere Business Compass or IBM WebSphere Business Modeler.
• Create an alias
  Use an alias as a simple and descriptive way to refer to a field in a business object or WSDL message from within the context of a business item in a business vocabulary.
• Create a message
  A message is an element in a business vocabulary that represents the input and output messages of a business service operation. After the business vocabulary is exported and then uploaded into WebSphere Business Compass, a message can also be used to represent the data that flows between BPEL processes and message events.
• Create an error
  An error is an element in a business vocabulary that represents a fault condition in a business service operation.
• Create a business service
  A business service is a BPMN document that contains a set of service operations that perform business-related functions. The details of the service interfaces are hidden from the user, who instead only sees the input required for a business service operation, and the output that is returned, if applicable.

Business vocabularies

Related concepts:
Business items
Aliases