Defining Intelligent Business Objects AwareIM Documentation

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====== Defining Intelligent Business Objects ======

Intelligent business objects are described in the [[docs:2000_concepts:0900_prod_feats:0300_comm_with_other_systems:0100_intelligent_bus_obj|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.

//**AwareIM**// 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 “AwareIM 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 ''[[a_f:a:send|SEND]]'' and ''[[a_f:a:request_service|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.

See also 
{{simplenavi>docs:2500_config_apps:0500_add_edit_objects:0600_intelligent_bo}}