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Customer Create Como David Apt 2C 123 Fairchild Mountain View CA 94040 408 6321111 Business object type Verb Attribute values Figure 5. Business object components The next sections describe these components. Business object type Each business object has a type name that identifies it within the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Express system. This type is defined by the business object definition. For example, the type might be Customer, Employee, Item, or Contract. Business object verbs A business object verb specifies an action in relation to the attribute values. The verb can indicate various types of actions, depending on the role of the business object. Table 1 lists the three business object roles and describes the meaning of the verb in a business object that has each role. Table 1. Meanings of business object verbs Role of business object Event Request Response Meaning of verb Describes what happened in an application. For example, in an event, the Create verb indicates that the source application created a new data entity. Tells the connector how to interact with the application in order to process the business object. For example, the Update verb is a request to the connector to update the data entity. Provides the results of a previous request. For example, in a response, the Retrieve verb indicates that the connector obtained the attribute values from the application. Note: The naming convention is to use the format business-object-type.verb to indicate a particular type of business object with a particular verb. For example, Customer.Create is a Customer business object with the Create verb. Business object attribute values A business object contains attribute values that represent data fields associated with the data entity, such as Last Name, First Name, Employee ID, or Invoice Status. 10 IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Express and Express Plus: System Implementation Guide