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Overview of Virtual Business Components


A virtual business component (VBC) provides a way to access data that resides in an external data source using a Siebel business component. The VBC does not map to an underlying table in the Siebel Database. You create a new VBC in Siebel Tools and compile it into the siebel.srf file. The VBC calls a Siebel business service to provide a transport mechanism.

You can take two approaches to use virtual business components, as illustrated in Figure 30.

Figure 30.  Two Approaches to Building Virtual Business Components

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 Integration Platform Technologies: Siebel eBusiness Application Integration Volume II 
 Published: 18 July 2003