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About the Components of Siebel EAI

Legacy applications that have been deployed for various purposes—including purchasing, accounting, and ERP—contain critical information that needs to coexist and be integrated with Siebel applications. In addition, B2B (business-to-business) interaction necessitates the sharing of customer, order, and account information with partners across the firewall. Siebel EAI provides various components that can be used individually or together with an EAI vendor's toolkit, including XML support in Siebel EAI adapters and connectors, VBCs, and Java Beans.

This section describes the following topics:

• XML and Siebel EAI
• Siebel EAI Adapters and Connectors
• Virtual Business Components
• External Business Components
• Siebel EAI and Java/J2EE
• Object Interfaces and Siebel EAI
• Siebel EAI Message-Based Integration
• Integration Objects
• Data Transformation
• Cross-Application Process Integration and Workflow Control