This topic describes the Enterprise Metadata Discovery tool.
The Enterprise Metadata Discovery (EMD) tool is a tool that allows you to generate business objects from the business services and integration objects in the EIS. It also allows you to generate JService constructs for the adapter to run as a JService component.
The EMD tool provides a blue print for a Service Data Object (SDO). By selecting meta-object nodes from the MetadataTree, you can generate SDOs for EIS function calls. The metadata is transformed into SDOs which consist of a business graph and business objects (one root/top-level object and zero to many child business objects). The business objects generated by the EMD contain the metadata that correspond to the business services and are used by the adapter.
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Introduction
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IBM WebSphere Adapters
WebSphere Adapters and WebSphere Business Integration Adapters
Differences between adapters
How the adapter works
Locale and globalization support
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