5.Complete the business object and generate the business objects for the types.

6.Save the business object files.

Details for each step follow.

Steps for using i2ODA

Before you begin: You need to start the i2 Business Object Designer wizard.

1.Open Business Object Designer.

2.From the File menu, select New Using ODA....

Result: Business Object Designer displays the first window in the wizard, named Select Agent.

Perform the following steps:

Select the Agent

To select the ODA:

1.Click Find Agents to display all registered or currently running ODAs in the Located agents field.

2.Select the desired ODA from the displayed list.

Note: The ODA for i2 has a default name of i2ODA. The agent name depends on the value of the i2 variable in the start_i2ODA.bat or start_i2ODA.sh file.

Recommendation: When you run multiple instances of the ODA utility, you should change the default name by creating a separate batch file for each instance or by specifying a unique name in the AGENTNAME variable of each batch file.

When multiple instances of the ODA are running on different machines, they are visible in the Business Object Designer by their i2 ODA values. If two ODAs have the same i2 value, then either of the ODAs can be used, with possibly undesirable results. You can assign unique names to such ODAs by prefixing the i2 name with the host machine name, or by using an ORB finder (for example, osfind) to locate existing CORBA object names on your network. If the ODA is registered with an Object Activation Daemon by the ODA configuration wizard, the latter prefixes the host name to the AGENTNAME value, making it unique.

Result: Business Object Designer displays your selected agent in the Agent’s name field.

Configure agent properties

The first time Business Object Designer communicates with i2 ODA, it prompts you to enter a set of initialization properties. You can save these properties in a named profile so that you do not need to re-enter them each time you use i2 ODA. For information on specifying an ODA profile, see IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapters Business Object Development Guide.

In addition to configuring these one-time properties, you need to configure properties to connect to the CIS agent and to define the tree nodes.

The following table describes the properties to configure.

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