Importing event and entity types

You can create the event types and entity types of your business object model from XML schemas. You must add specific annotations to your XML schema to identify the complex types that represent events or entities.

Adding annotations to an XML schema
Before you import an .xsd file, you must add the required annotations to your XML schema. Depending on the complex types that you import, you add annotations to define events, entities, or relationships between events and entities.
Adding geospatial types to an XML schema
You can add a geospatial type to an element in your XML schema. A geospatial type is a geometric object (point, line, or polygon) that represents either a geographic position or a spatial feature. It can be static or moving.
Importing event and entity types from an XML schema
If you have an .xsd file that contains your event or entity definitions, you can import it to create the event types and entity types in the business object model (BOM).
Importing event types from IBM Integration Bus
If you have a flow in WebSphere® Message Broker or IBM® Integration Bus that emits monitoring events, you can import and use those events in Insight Designer. You use a wizard to import the event definitions, and to create the event types in the business object model (BOM). The import wizard also defines an inbound binding in a connectivity definition (.cdef) file.
Schema types
XSD types are mapped to BOM types.

Parent topic: Modeling entities and events