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Enterprise Metadata Discovery general interfaces and implementation for application adapters

Enterprise metadata discovery is a discovery service, or a component within an adapter that enables the generation of business object definitions and other artifacts required by service component architecture.

The enterprise metadata discovery component is analogous to the Object Discovery Agent of WebSphere Business Integration Adapters. In addition to generating business object definitions, however, the enterprise metadata discovery also generates service component architecture artifacts such as an Import/Export file and WSDL. An explicit goal of enterprise metadata discovery is to enable existing JCA resource adapter extensions to provide metadata discovery and import in a simple, straightforward way.

Using adapters that allow for metadata discovery and import, you can create and edit services with the following capabilities, where the operation style is supported by the underlying adapter:

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