Business Object Models
A business object model is a set of business terms and relationships specific to your corporate environment (for example, in a financial environment, broker, counterparty, and so on).
The Eclipse editor called the Business Object Model Editor helps you construct your business object model. In object-oriented terms, when you create a business object model, you are creating a class diagram using UML.
The advantage of creating or importing a business object model is that you can use it:
- for analysis purposes,
- for documentation purposes,
- to incorporate business data in your business processes.
You can create a Data Field in a Process that corresponds to a Class that you have defined in the business object model. If you create a data field in a process and set the field type by an external reference to a Class in the business object model, the field will have sub-fields that correspond to the attributes defined for that Class.