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Transports and Interfaces: Siebel eBusiness Application Integration Volume III > Interfacing with Microsoft BizTalk Server > Preparing to Use the Siebel BizTalk Adapter > Siebel Integration ObjectsBefore you can exchange documents with any of your trading partners or with any other application using BizTalk Server, you need to expose the appropriate Siebel integration objects to BizTalk; this is done by creating integration object schema which you then import into BizTalk. Siebel integration objects are published using the Schema Generator Wizard—a component of Siebel Tools. You need to create a new document definition using the Schema Wizard to expose any of the Siebel integration object formats for use with BizTalk. NOTE: For instructions on how to create and modify Siebel integration objects, see Integration Platform Technologies: Siebel eBusiness Application Integration Volume II. You export either DTD or XDR schema. These exported files are imported into BizTalk where they are converted into document specifications. BizTalk Server adds BizTalk-specific XML tags that convert the standard XDR format to BizTalk's document specification format. Figure 6 depicts how the Siebel integration objects are exposed to BizTalk Server. Document specifications are stored in the WebDAV BizTalk Repository and are available to any client that can connect to WebDAV. You can retrieve stored document specifications from WebDAV and create maps to perform data transformations from within BizTalk Mapper. BizTalk maps, which are XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language)-based, are also stored in WebDAV. NOTE: To use the Siebel BizTalk Server interface, you need to have integration objects defined for each trading partner. You can either use existing integration objects for this purpose, or you can create new ones depending upon your business requirements. Exposing Integration Objects to BizTalkUse the following checklist as a guideline for how to expose integration objects to BizTalk.
To generate a new DTD or XDR schema
To import schema into BizTalk Server to save it as a BizTalk document specification
About Siebel Data Types Mappings in BizTalkStandard Siebel applications come with predefined data types, which are mapped to XDR-specific data types. Table 24 presents data types for the Siebel Field object type and the current corresponding mapping to XDR data types. |
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