WPS: Business Objects in WPS

$ What are Business Objects (BO)?

You can use Business Objects, extensions of Service Data Objects (SDO), to provide an abstraction layer for data access. While SDOs provide a universal means of describing disparate data, such as JDBC ResultSet, XML Schema described data, and so forth, Business Objects include some extensions that are very important for integration solutions; you can use them to further describe the data that is being exchanged between SCA services. This includes metadata-like change history or information on the context of the data, such as update, create, delete, and so on.

While the concepts of Service Component Architecture and Business Objects are new, the implementation is standards based. For example, interfaces to any SCA service component are described through Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) or Java interfaces and Business Objects are described through XML Schema (XSD).