The external business component feature provides a way to access data that resides in a non-Siebel table or view using a Siebel business component.

This chapter consists of the following topics:

• Configuring External Business Components
• Usage and Restrictions for External Business Components
• About Using External Business Components with the Siebel Web Clients
• About Overriding Connection Pooling Parameters for the DataSource
• About Joins to Tables in External Data Sources
• About Distributed Joins
• Usage and Restrictions for Using Distributed Joins
• Loading a Siebel Analytics Presentation Folder for Use as an External Table