The i2 Object Discovery Agent (ODA) is a utility to use to obtain the
specifications for the i2 business object from the metadata information in
i2's CIS registry. The Business Object Development wizard automates
the process. You can view or make modifications to the business object
before saving it to the server.
The process for generating an i2 business object has three distinct
stages:
- Identifying the ports, operations, and types for which the i2 ODA
generates the schema files; generating the XML schema for the types;
and generating the wrapper business object representing the operations with
the types as attributes.
- Processing the i2 generated XML schema files and converting the XML schema
to the actual business object for the type.
- Prior to saving the wrapper business object, saving to the repository the
MO_Instance business object and the business objects that were generated for
the types using the XML ODA.
For details, see "Steps for using the i2 ODA".
