Overview of the ODA for MetaSolv

An Object Discovery Agent (ODA) enables you to generate business object definitions. A business object definition is a template which describes a business object. The ODA examines specified application objects, "discovers" the elements of those objects that correspond to business object attributes, and generates business object definitions to represent the information. Business Object Designer provides a graphical interface to access the Object Discovery Agent and to work with it interactively.

The ODA for MetaSolv runs only on Windows 2000 and generates business object definitions from meta-data contained in MetaSolv IDL files. The Business Object Designer wizard automates the process of creating these definitions. You use the ODA to create business objects and Connector Configurator to configure the connector to support them. For information about Connector Configurator, see Appendix B, Using Connector Configurator.

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