Working with projects

Business Object Designer uses the concept of a project to define a virtual work area in which business object definitions are created, modified, or deleted. Depending on your environment, the "project" to which Business Object Designer refers in its dialog boxes can be either of the following:

Table 8. Projects in Business Object Designer.

Business Object Designer environment Project
You are not running Business Object Designer from System Manager. A virtual work area into which you have imported business object definitions from a local directory to work with during your current Business Object Designer session. Also called a local project.
You are running Business Object Designer from System Manager. An Integration Component Library (ICL) on the Windows machine where Business Object Designer and System Manager are running. Also called an ICL-based project.

The use of each type of project is explained in more detail below.

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