EIS Direct Mapping

An EIS direct mapping maps a simple object attribute directly to an EIS record according to its descriptor's record type as shown in Table 56-2.

Table 56-2 EIS Direct Mapping by EIS Record Type

EIS Record Type	Mapping Behavior
Indexed	Maps directly to a field in the indexed record.
Mapped	Maps directly to a field in the mapped record.
XML	Maps directly to an attribute or text node in the XML recordFoot 1 .

^Footnote 1 See also "XML Direct Mapping".

Figure 56-4 illustrates a direct EIS mapping between Order class attribute orderedBy and XML record attribute ordered_by within the order element.

Figure 56-4 EIS Direct Mappings

Description of "Figure 56-4 EIS Direct Mappings"

See Chapter 58, "Configuring an EIS Direct Mapping" for more information.