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About 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 VBCs, as illustrated in Figure 35:

• Use the XML Gateway business service to pass data between the VBC and one of the Siebel transports, such as the EAI HTTP Transport or the EAI MSMQ Transport.
• Write your own business service in Siebel eScript or in Siebel VB to implement the methods described in this chapter.

Figure 35. Two Approaches to Building Virtual Business Components