Overview of BizTalk Adapter for Siebel eBusiness Applications

The Microsoft BizTalk Adapter for Siebel eBusiness Applications exposes the Siebel system as a WCF service. Adapter clients can perform operations on the Siebel system by exchanging SOAP messages with the adapter. The adapter consumes the WCF message and makes appropriate calls to the Siebel system to perform the operation. The adapter returns the response from the Siebel system back to the client in the form of SOAP messages.

The Siebel adapter surfaces metadata of Siebel artifacts (business components, business services) that describes the structure of a SOAP message in the form of WSDL. The Siebel adapter uses the Add Adapter Service Reference Visual Studio Plug-in and Consume Adapter Service BizTalk Project Add-in to enable adapter clients to retrieve metadata for operations and generates programming artifacts that can be used in your programming solution.

The Siebel adapter uses the Siebel COM Data Control to access the Siebel system. The Siebel COM Data Control comes bundled with the Siebel Web client. Hence, make sure you have the Siebel Web client installed on the same computer as the Siebel adapter. You can use the Siebel adapter to communicate with the Siebel system in the following ways:

• By developing BizTalk applications. See Developing BizTalk Server Applications.

• By using the WCF service model. See Develop Siebel Applications by Using the WCF Service Model.

• By using the WCF channel model. See Develop Oracle Database Applications by Using the WCF Channel Modelenter link description here.

In This Section

• How Does the Adapter Connect to a Siebel System?

• How Does the Adapter Surface Siebel Metadata?

• What Operations Can be Performed Using the Adapter?

• Other Features Supported by the Adapter

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