OAGi Training Glossary

OAGi

A member-driven non-profit standards organization.

• The Open Applications Group, Inc.

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OAGIS

OAGi’s enterprise canonical standard.

• The Open Applications Group Integration Specification

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Score

A browser-based tool used to manage OAGIS and BIEs created from OAGIS components.

• The Score Tool (@Jim Wilson discourages use)

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component
(in an OAGIS context)

An OAGIS message definition or any part of an OAGIS message definition.

• core component²

• CC

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BIE

An OAGIS message definition associated with one or more business contexts. A BIE is the result of a profiling process.²

• Business Information Entity

• message profile

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business context²

A formal specification of the scope of applicability for BIEs.

• context

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BOD

Context dependent:

1. BOD schema: An OAGIS message specification that conforms to the BOD Architecture. A BOD schema is an aggregate component (ACC).

2. BOD instance: An OAGIS message instance that conforms to a BOD schema.

• Business Object Document

• message

• message schema

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aggregate component

A component that is a structure.

• aggregate core component²

• ACC

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basic component

A component that is a value (technically it may be a small structure that includes a value and supplementary components)

• basic core component

• BCC

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supplementary component

Essential extra information associated with a basic component to enable complete value semantics.

For example:

• Price = 50 → raises the question “50 what?”

• SC: CurrencyCode = “USD”

• SC

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BOD architecture

Message structure that follows the following pattern:

• BOD

  • Application Area

  • Data Area

    • Verb

    • Noun

Where:

• The Verb is any of the components OAGi designated as a Verb (e.g., Process).

• The Noun is any component that appears in the BOD architecture as a child of Data Area, which is paired with a Verb. One can think of the noun as the “main” message payload (e.g., Purchase Order)

• BOD name = Verb name + Noun name (e.g., Process Purchase Order)

noun

The Noun is any component that appears in the BOD architecture as a child of Data Area. One can think of the noun as the “main” message payload (e.g., Purchase Order)

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verb

Any component in a set of components that OAGi designates as “verbs”. They are components that are paired with nouns in the BOD architecture to indicate the action or purpose of the overall message.

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