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About the EAI Siebel Adapter Business Service

EAI Siebel Adapter is a general-purpose integration business service that allows you to:

• Read Siebel business objects from the Siebel Database into integration objects.

  NOTE:  When called locally, the EAI Siebel Adapter business service creates an additional database connection. If this second connection times out, then further transactions will not be processed. To prevent this from happening, add the TrxDbConnReconnectIntervalSeconds parameter to the [ServerDataSrc] section of the application configuration (CFG) file. A typical value is 120.

• Write an integration object instance whose data originates externally in a Siebel business object.
• Update multiple corresponding top-level parent business component records with data from one XML file, for an example, see Update Method.

  NOTE:  The Siebel Message is considered to be one transaction. The transaction is committed when there is no error. If there is an error, then the transaction is aborted and rolled back.

Node Types and the EAI Siebel Adapter Business Service

In an integration object hierarchy, nodes with at least one child are called internal nodes and nodes without children are called leaf nodes. When either the insert or update method is called on the EAI Siebel Adapter business service, the adapter performs the operation on both internal nodes and leaf nodes. When the insert or update method is called on the EAI UI Data Adapter business service, the adapter performs insert on leaf nodes only.

For more information on node types, see About the EAI UI Data Adapter Business Service.