Business object structure

After installing the adapter, you must create business objects.

The adapter for WebSphere Commerce retrieves WebSphere MQ messages from a queue and attempts to populate business objects (defined by the meta-object) with the business data contained in the message.

The business data in the MQ Series messages exchanged by the adapter is contained within XML documents. The adapter uses an XML data handler to convert the data from the XML documents into business objects, and from business objects into XML documents.

The structure of the business object definitions must conform to the requirements of the XML data handler. For information about these requirements, and for instructions on how to use XML DTDs and the Edifecs SpecBuilder utility to translate a DTD into a business object definition, refer to the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Data Handler for XML.

To see the properties and structure used in a typical Customer_Create business object definition for WebSphere Commerce, open the file /connector/WebSphereCommerce/samples/WC_BODefinition.in.

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