Terminology
The following terms are used in this guide:
- ASI (Application-Specific Information) Metadata
tailored to a particular application or technology. ASI exists at
both the attribute, verb, and business object level of a business
object. See also Verb ASI.
- BF (Business Function) A collection of
C functions and their associated data structures, logically grouped
to perform a specific task. Regular business functions perform simple
tasks, such as tax calculation or account number validation. Master
business functions perform tasks that are more complex and can call
several regular business functions.
- BO (Business Object) A set of attributes
that represent a business entity (such as Employee) and an action
on the data (such as a create or update operation). Components of
the WebSphere business integration system use business objects to
exchange information and trigger actions.
- BO (Business Object) handler A connector
component that contains methods that interact with an application
and that transforms request business objects into application operations.
- Connector agent A component of the connector
that processes service call requests from the Integration broker
as well as event notifications from OneWorld.
- Connection object A connection is a reference
to an application that can contain state information. For every
instance of a connection on the adapter side, there is a corresponding
object on the JD Edwards OneWorld side. The business object handler
creates connections when required, up to the maximum size of the
value of the pool size property. The new connections are maintained
in the pool and are re-used by multiple business object executions.
- Connection pool A repository used to store
and retrieve connection objects.
- GenJava A utility provided by JD Edwards
OneWorld to generate Java wrappers for the business functions running
as part of the OneWorld server. GenJava creates Java Class files
for the interface classes and associated data structures, compiles
the generated Java files, generates Java docs, and packages them into
two jar files: one for Java classes and the other for Java doc.
- Interoperability framework Allows seamless
sharing of function and information between disparate software applications.
Includes business function wrappers that provide a single point
of access to major and minor business functions. Also includes master
business function wrappers.
- Java objects Wrappers, implemented in
Java, around OneWorld business functions and data structures. Java
objects provide a one-to-one correspondence with OneWorld business
functions.
- ODA (Object Discovery Agent) A tool that
automatically generates a business object definition by examining
specified entities within the application and "discovering" the
elements of these entities that correspond to business object attributes.
When you install the adapter, the ODA is automatically installed.
- Verb ASI (application-specific information) For
a given verb, the verb ASI specifies how the connector should process
the business object when that verb is active. It can contain the
name of the method to call to process the current request business
object.
- XML List A retrieval interface to OneWorld,
with which you can fetch data from a table or from a predefined
table conversion process.
