Data representation of SMO

You can use the SMO with business object utilities such as BOCopy and BOXMLSerializer. In addition if you need to examine the SMO, you can access and manipulate it using the BO API (SDO API). This provides extensive capabilities including the ability to get and set individual fields. The SMO also has its own Java™ interface which is a convenience method for accessing the top level structure of the SMO.

Many mediation primitives have properties that contain XPath expressions. You can use this XPath expression to specify which subset of the message for the mediation primitive, should be processed. Depending on the mediation primitive, you can specify: /, /body, /headers, /context, /attachment, or your own XPath expression. / refers to the complete SMO, /body refers to the body section of the SMO, /headers refers to the headers of the SMO. If you specify your own XPath expression, the part of the SMO you specify is processed.

Integration Designer shows the structure of a message and allows you to select locations within the message. In this way you can navigate the structure of a message and create XPath expressions.

Business objects provide a platform wide data representation. The structure of a business object is defined in an XML schema which is either imported or created in Integration Designer using the business object editor. Business objects are used to represent the data that is passed through an SCA module.