About this document

The products IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Business Integration Server Express and IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Business Integration Server Express Plus include the following components: Interchange Server Express, the associated Toolset Express, CollaborationFoundation, and a set of software integration adapters. The tools in Toolset Express help you to create, modify, and manage business processes. You can choose from among the prepackaged adapters for your business processes that span applications. The standard processes template, CollaborationFoundation, allows you to quickly create customized processes.

This document describes how to use Business Object Designer Express 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 provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to the available Object Discovery Agents, and helps manage the discovery and definition generation processes. This document also explains how to use the Object Discovery Agent Development Kit (ODK) to create Object Discovery Agents.

Except where noted, all the information in this guide applies to both IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Express and IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Express Plus. The term "WebSphere Business Integration Server Express" and its variants refer to both products.

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