Connector business object structure

After installing the connector, you must create business objects. There are no requirements regarding the structure of the business objects other than those imposed by the configured data handler. The business objects that the connector processes can have any name allowed by the integration broker. For more on naming conventions see the naming conventions for your integration broker.

The connector retrieves messages from a destination and attempts to populate a business object (defined by the meta-object) with the message contents. Strictly speaking, the connector neither controls nor influences business object structure. Those are functions of meta-object definitions as well as the connector's data handler requirements. In fact, there is no business-object level application text. Rather, the connector's main role when retrieving and passing business objects is to monitor the message-to-business-object (and vice versa) process for errors.

Creating business objects

  1. Identify and configure the application that the integration broker will send business objects to when the broker is configured with an instance of the JMS adapter.
  2. Configure the connector with a data handler that can transform messages from JMS destinations into business objects suitable for processing by the target application. You do this by specifying the DataHandlerConfigMO and DataHandlerMimeType connector properties, or by specifying the DataHandlerClassName property. For further information, see Configuring connector properties. You can optionally specify special data handler processing rules in static and dynamic meta-objects. For further information, see Meta-object properties.
  3. Use Business Object Designer to create the application-specific business objects. For further information see the Business Object Designerguide.
  4. Add the business objects you create to the Supported Business Objects Using Connector Configurator, click the Supported Business Objects tab for the JMS adapter, add the business objects you have created, and set the Message Set ID to a unique value for each supported business object. For further information on using Connector Configurator to add supported business objects, see Specifying supported business object definitions.

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