The full-scale business integration system, which uses WebSphere InterChange Server (ICS) as its integration broker, includes two kinds of business objects: application-specific and generic. However, WebSphere Business Integration Adapters for WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker uses only application-specific business objects, not generic business objects. Therefore, all references to business objects throughout this book refer to application-specific business objects. Many of the books in the IBM WebSphere Business Integration (WBI) Server documentation set cover both environments and therefore refer to both types of business objects.
When an application-specific component detects an application event such as an update, it retrieves the appropriate data entity from the application and transforms it into a business object.
After an application-specific component has built a business object, it sends the business object to the connector framework. The connector framework calls the data handler to convert the business object to a WebSphere MQ message to be dispatched to the integration broker.