The Object Discovery Agent Development Kit (ODK) API has been
significantly enhanced to provide the following new features for an
Object Discovery Agent (ODA):
- Ability to generate files as content in addition to generation
of business object definitions
- Ability to associate an operating-system file with a node in
the source-node hierarchy
- Ability to determine how content generation is initiated:
- By Business Object Designer's Business Object Wizard
- By some user-defined method, which creates content
"spontaneously" and notifies Business Object Wizard when it is
complete
Development of all new ODAs should use this new ODK API. For
information on how to use the new ODK API, see Developing an Object Discovery
Agent. Classes and methods of the new ODK API are described in
ODK class reference. In
addition, the manual now provides information on how to compile an
ODA and prepare it for execution in Adding an Object Discovery Agent
to the business integration system.