Defining Intelligent Business Objects

Intelligent business objects are described in the Intelligent Business Objects section.

In order to define an intelligent business object the configurator has to click on the “Communication” property of a business object and define communication channels of the object in the “Communication Channels” dialog that comes up.

Aware IM supports the following types of communication channels out-of-the-box:

E-mail channel – communication with an intelligent business object is via e-mail
SOAP channel – communication with an intelligent business object is via Web services mechanism which supports SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
URL channel – communication with an intelligent business object is via HTTP URL (Unified Resource Locator)
REST channel – communication with an intelligent business object is via a popular REST protocol

In addition to the above pre-defined types it is possible to plug-in custom channel types – see “Aware IM Programmer’s Reference”.

A particular object may expose several communication channels at once – when a notification or service request are sent to the object it is possible to indicate which type of channel the request or notification should be sent through (see SEND and REQUEST SERVICE actions). Therefore the configurator has to indicate which channels the intelligent business object exposes.

Every channel has certain properties specific to its type. To set the properties of a channel tick the channel type in the “Communication Channels” dialog and define its properties.