Deploying the collaboration object to enable BiDi

Withthe introduction of support with the Portal Server, WebSphere Integration Business Implementation Server Express provides support for bidirectional script languages on the Access Interface level (or in the Access Interface).

UsingProcess Designer you can assign the BiDi_AI_Application and BiDi_<portname>_AI_Application properties during the development of the collaboration template. During the deployment of the collaboration template, the user sets the correct values for the new properties to reflect the run time environment parameters.

At run time, the Access Interface inspects the properties and applies the BiDi transformation to the business object instances that pass through into the collaboration object. On its way from the external application, for example, Portal Server, to the collaboration, business object instance data is transformed from the external application BiDI format (specified by using the BiDi properties) into Interchange Server standard BiDi format (Logical Left-to-Right BiDi format also known as Windows BiDi format). This data transformation process reverses when data is sent from the collaboration back to the external application.

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