The following terms are used in this guide:
- ASI (Application-Specific Information) Metadata tailored to a
particular application or technology. ASI exists at both the attribute,
verb, and business object level of a business object. See also
Verb ASI.
- BF (Business Function) A collection of C functions and their
associated data structures, logically grouped to perform a specific
task. Regular business functions perform simple tasks, such as tax
calculation or account number validation. Master business functions
perform tasks that are more complex and can call several regular business
functions.
- BO (Business Object) A set of attributes that represent a
business entity (such as Employee) and an action on the data (such as a create
or update operation). Components of the WebSphere business integration
system use business objects to exchange information and trigger
actions.
- BO (Business Object) handler A connector component that
contains methods that interact with an application and that transforms request
business objects into application operations.
- Connector agentA component of the connector that processes
service call requests from the Integration broker as well as event
notifications from OneWorld.
- Connection object A connection is a reference to an application
that can contain state information. For every instance of a connection
on the adapter side, there is a corresponding object on the JD Edwards
OneWorld side. The business object handler creates connections when
required, up to the maximum size of the value of the pool size
property. The new connections are maintained in the pool and are
re-used by multiple business object executions.
- Connection pool A repository used to store and retrieve
connection objects.
- GenJava A utility provided by JD Edwards OneWorld to generate
Java wrappers for the business functions running as part of the OneWorld
server. GenJava creates Java Class files for the interface classes and
associated data structures, compiles the generated Java files, generates Java
docs, and packages them into two jar files: one for Java classes and the
other for Java doc.
- Interoperability framework Allows seamless sharing of function
and information between disparate software applications. Includes
business function wrappers that provide a single point of access to major and
minor business functions. Also includes master business function
wrappers.
- Java objects Wrappers, implemented in Java, around OneWorld
business functions and data structures. Java objects provide a
one-to-one correspondence with OneWorld business functions.
- ODA (Object Discovery Agent) A tool that automatically
generates a business object definition by examining specified entities within
the application and "discovering" the elements of these entities that
correspond to business object attributes. When you install the adapter,
the ODA is automatically installed.
- Verb ASI (application-specific information) For a given verb,
the verb ASI specifies how the connector should process the business object
when that verb is active. It can contain the name of the method to call
to process the current request business object.
- XML List A retrieval interface to OneWorld, with which you can
fetch data from a table or from a predefined table conversion process.
