This topic applies only to the IBM Business Automation Workflow Advanced
configuration.

Programming techniques

These techniques illustrate how to effectively program business objects using the business object framework.

Arrays in business objects
You can define arrays for an element in a business object so that the element can contain more than one instance of data.
Creating nested business objects
You can use the setWithCreate function to create nested business objects within a parent business object.
Differentiating identically named elements
You must provide unique names for business object elements and attributes.
Differentiating identically named properties
When multiple XSDs with the same namespace define the same named types, an incorrect type can be accidentally referenced.
Resolving property names that contain periods
Property names in an XSD may contain a period (".") as one of many valid characters, while in a SDO they are also used to show indexing in a property of multiple cardinality. This may cause resolution problems in certain situations.
Support for null business objects
This scenario involves an outside system communicating with IBM® Business Automation Workflow through XML wrapped inside of a SOAP message. When the enclosed element is nillible and has xsi:nil="true", then the resulting DataObject which is created in IBM Business Automation Workflow is null.
Using the Sequence object to set data order
Some XSDs are defined in a way that makes the order that the data occurs in the XML have special significance.
Using Any data types
This section provides programming techniques for using Any data types.

Parent topic: This topic applies only to the IBM Business Automation Workflow Advanced
configuration.

Business objects programming