Following are the differences between Internal and External Integration Objects

Base Object Type:

• Internal Integration Object has base type as Siebel Business Object
• External Integration Object has base type as XML

 EAI Siebel Adapter – Query Method:

• Internal Integration Object is used in Query Method of EAI Siebel Adapter BS.
• External Integration Object cannot be used with Query method of EAI Siebel Adapter BS.

Creation:

• Internal Integration Object is usually create through EAI Siebel Wizard
• External Integration Object is usually created while importing an External WSDL

Question:

We are receiving an XML containing account information from external system. In one of the XML tags “Active” they are going to send Value as 0 or 1 but in Siebel we are need the value of “Active” XML tag as “Y” or “N”. How can you achieve this?
Answer:

Using EAI Value Maps present in Administration – Integration Screen.

We are going to define an Inbound Map and use functions like EAILookupSiebel and Translate methods to get the required values.

We are getting a XML from external System. We want to make sure that the record is inserted every time. If there is already an existing record in Siebel then nothing should happen.

Or

When we get an XML from external System. If a record with received data is not present in Siebel then it should be inserted and if record is already present in Siebel then nothing should happen.

Answer:

On Integration Object that you are going to use for this integration, create “NoUpdate” user property with value as ‘Y’ on all Integration Component instance present in that Integration Object.
Use Upsert method available in EAI Siebel Adapter Business Service.

Due to NoUpdate user property if record is found nothing will be updated and if record is not found then it will be inserted.

VBC stands for Virtual Business Component. Important features describing VBC are as following:

• > VBC does not have table associated to it which means data is not stored in Siebel tables.
• > Class of a VBC has to be CSSBCVExtern.
• > A business service is associated with VBC with the help of user property.
• > Business service can be vanilla (XML Gateway) or Custom BS.
• > We have handle all the events if we associate VBC with a Custom BS.

XML Doc is a XML String containing actual data.

We use EAI XML Converter Business service to get XML Doc. In Siebel Inbound Integration we get data in XML string form and in Outbound Integration we send data as XML string. This XML string is referred as XML Doc

We can use various methods of EAI XML converter BS such as

• IntObjHierToXMLDoc : Used to convert output of EAI Siebel Adapter Query method to XML Doc
• XMLDocToIntObjHier: Used to convert an XML String into Hierarchy which can be used by EAI Siebel Adapter BS to perform various operations such as Upsert, Delete, Synchronize etc
• DocToHier: Used to convert XML string to generic hierarchical property set
• HierToDoc: Used to convert Generic Hierarchy to XML String