The IBM WebSphere Business Integration Data Handler for EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), called the EDI data handler, converts business objects to EDI documents and from EDI documents to business objects. This chapter describes how the EDI data handler processes EDI documents and how to define business objects to be processed by the data handler. You can use this information as a guide to implementing business objects that conform to the requirements of the EDI data handler. The chapter also discusses how to configure the XML data handler. This chapter contains the following sections: