The products IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Business Integration Express for Item Synchronization and IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Business Integration Express Plus for Item Synchronization are made up of the following components: InterChange Server Express, the associated Toolset Express product, the Item Synchronization Collaboration, and a set of software integration adapters. Together, the components provide business process integration and connectivity among leading e-business technologies and enterprise applications as well as integration with the UCCnet GLOBALregistry.
This document describes how to use Business Object Designer Express and Express Plus to create business object definitions, both manually and using an Object Discovery Agent (ODA). Object Discovery Agents are designed to "discover" business object requirements specific to a data source and to generate definitions from those requirements. Business Object Designer Express and Express Plus provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to the available Object Discovery Agents, and helps manage the discovery and definition generation processes.
Except where noted, all the information in this guide applies to both IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Business Integration Express for Item Synchronization and IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Business Integration Express Plus for Item Synchronization. The term "WebSphere Business Integration Express for Item Synchronization" and its variants refer to both products.