Determining business object structure

The purpose of a business object is to transport data between components of a business integration system and the applications that it integrates. Therefore, the business object should model the data that needs to be transported. This data is usually associated with an entity in an application or technology that the business integration system integrates. The structure of a business object can be either of the following:

In addition, this section provides "Design considerations for multiple entities".

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