Transports and Interfaces: Siebel eBusiness Application Integration Volume III > EAI HTTP Transport >

General Information on How to Send a Message

The following steps demonstrate how to send information from a Siebel application to another Web-based application using the EAI HTTP Transport.

  1. Create an integration object in Siebel Tools based on a given business object.
  2. Refine the integration object created in Step 1 to specify just those business components and fields that you want to exchange with the external application.

    3. NOTE:  For details about integration objects, see Integration Platform Technologies: Siebel eBusiness Application Integration Volume II.

  3. Create a workflow process, using the Business Process Administration, to send this information to an external system as shown in the following figure:

    		4.

    1. Create the following process properties in the Process Property applet:

      2. Name
      Data Type
      In/Out
      Value
      Account Message
      Hierarchy
      In/Out
      -
      Account XML
      Binary
      In/Out
      -
      Error Code
      String
      In/Out
      -
      Error Message
      String
      In/Out
      -
      Object Id
      String
      In/Out
      Row Id of an account
      Siebel Operation Object Id
      String
      In/Out
      -

    2. Set up the first step of the workflow after Start to use the EAI Siebel Adapter with the Query method to query the information from the Siebel Database, using the following input and output arguments:

      3. Input Arguments
      Type
      Value
      Property Name
      Property Data Type
      Output Integration Object
      Literal
      Sample Account
      -
      -
      Object Id
      Process Property
      -
      Object Id
      String

      Property Name
      Type
      Value
      Output Argument
      Account Message
      Output Argument
      -
      Siebel Message

    3. Set up the second step to use the XML Converter with the PropSetToXML method to convert the data extracted from the Siebel Database to XML format, using the following input and output arguments:

      4. Input Arguments
      Type
      Value
      Property Name
      Property Data Type
      Siebel Message
      Process Property
      -
      Account Message
      Hierarchy

      Property Name
      Type
      Value
      Output Argument
      Account XML
      Output Argument
      -
      XML Document

    4. Set up the third step to use the EAI HTTP Transport with the Send method to send the information to the external system, using the following input arguments:

      5. Input Arguments
      Type
      Value
      Property Name
      Property Data Type
      Message Text
      Process Property
      -
      Employee XML
      String
      Login Method
      Literal
      GET
      -
      -
      Login URL Template
      Literal
      http://$web_address$/$login_param$
      -
      -
      Log Off Method
      Literal
      GET
      -
      -
      Log Off URL Template
      Literal
      http://$web_address$/$logoff_param$
      -
      -
      Request URL Template
      Literal
      http://$web_address$/$request_param$
      -
      -
      Password
      Literal
      mypassword
      -
      -

      Property Name
      Type
      Value
      Output Argument
      Property Data Type
      Employee XML
      Output Argument
      -
      Message Text
      -

    5. Save the workflow and run it from the Workflow Process Simulator.
  4. Specify how this workflow will be invoked using one of the following methods:

 Transports and Interfaces: Siebel eBusiness Application Integration Volume III 
 Published: 23 June 2003