General Extensibility Options

One of the key principles for the design of Application Integration Architecture (AIA) is its extensibility model. AIA offers extensibility in different shapes.

• EBOs: The design of the enterprise business objects (EBOs) includes mechanisms to extend generic objects in an upgrade-safe manner by providing hooks to plug in additional industry-specific or customer specific information.

• XSLs/ABCS: The transformations (XSLs) provided with ABCS have custom transformation templates available to map to/from customer specific elements. The ABCS also provide extension points to extend their own functionality.

This chapter provides guidelines on extending the Field Work Process Integration Pack, and discusses the following:

• Extending EBOs

• Extending ABC Services

• Pass Data without Extending the EBO

• Invoke Customer Modified XAI Inbound Service