The tree view in the TIBCO Object Service Broker UI OSB Projects view (or the Windows > Show View menu) shows two XML-related items: XML Documents and XML Field Maps. Choosing XML Documents with no filter applied displays a list of XML documents.
The documents you create are usually of the XML type. The MSSCHEMA,
ADO.NET, and
ROWSET document types are mostly for use within TIBCO Object Integration Gateway and you seldom need to create your own documents of those types.
TIBCO Object Integration Gateway assumes that the XML document being processed is parsed and placed into a relational table structure by TIBCO Object Service Broker for further processing and that the document is created by reading the processing results from a relational table. The overall process looks like this:
data entry → document → table → processes → table → document → exit
To map this process into the TIBCO Object Service Broker UI, create an XML document definition to define the XML document’s format and content and the relationship to the underlying relational table or tables.
The document definition can include other XML documents, called child documents, with which you process hierarchical data. For example, an XML document might list all the departments in your organization and a child document might list the employees within a department. A later section in this tutorial describes child documents in more detail.
