Overview of the ODA for CORBA

An ODA (Object Discovery Agent) enables you to generate business object definitions. A business object definition is a template for 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 Object Discovery Agent (ODA) for CORBA generates business object definitions from metadata contained in 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, Connector Configurator.

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