This topic describes how to use the EMD tool to discover
metadata.
Before you begin
Make sure you specified the required connection
properties. Why and when to perform this task
Using those specified connection properties, the adapter
will retrieve all the business services in the EIS instance and
list them in a Metadata tree structure, where each tree node represents
a business service. Steps for this task
- Browse the Metadata tree structure. You can browse the MetadataTree structure to understand the
structure of objects and EIS before selecting objects needed for
service description. The nodes of the tree are an instance of MetadataObject.
There can be properties associated to each node of the tree which
give addition information about the MetadataObject.
To see a list of methods under a business service, you
can click the plus sign (+) next to a node to select one or more
methods available for generation.
- Select the objects that you would like to generate. Click Next.
- Select the Service Type for the selected Objects. You can select either Inbound or Outbound. Click Next
- Specify the selection properties. What are these and
please provide values.
- Specify the Namespace definition. For any adapter-specific artifacts generated during the metadata
import process, the Flat Files adapter uses the following namespace: http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/websphere/j2ca/flatfile.
- Select the project where the generated artifacts will
be stored and where the .EAR file will be built for deployment. Click Next.
In the Business Integration
Panel check the "Interfaces" and "Enterprise Access" section for
the WSDL and import files.
The output of this final step is an EAR file that
includes all the artifacts generated by the discovery service, i.e business
object XSD's, SCA Import and an Export file and WSDL Interface files
along with the Resource Adapter .rar file.