External Business Components

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 contains the following topics:

• Process of Configuring External Business Components

• Using Specialized Business Component Methods for EBCs

• Usage and Restrictions for External Business Components

• About Using External Business Components with the Siebel Web Clients

• About Overriding Connection Pooling Parameters for the Data Source

• About Joins to Tables in External Data Sources

• Searching and Sorting on Fields Joined to External Tables

• About Distributed Joins

• Troubleshooting External Business Components

Before continuing with configuring and implementing external business components (EBCs), review the following books on the Siebel Bookshelf:

• Configuring Siebel Business Applications

• Siebel Developer's Reference

• Siebel Tools Online Help

• Using Siebel Tools