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About the UI Data Adapter and UI Data Sync Services

The UI Data Adapter business service enables custom-built Web applications to access Siebel functionality and data. Business services based on the UI Data Adapter class is called a UI Data Sync Service. These business services can be published as Web services. They provide the following:

• Access to business components and business objects.
• Strongly-typed data for appropriate rendering of the user interface.
• Strongly-typed APIs that enable access to operations such as insert, delete, update, query, and execute.
• Support for various query modes, including query by example.
• Support for downloading and uploading of file attachments.

For more information about the UI Data Adapter, see Integration Platform Technologies: Siebel Enterprise Application Integration.

For more information about UI Data Sync Services, see About UI Data Sync Services.