Table of Contents

 

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Listings

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

Online Resources

About the Cover Illustration

Chapter 1. Introducing the Business Data Catalog

1.1. Life before the Business Data Catalog

1.1.1. Data View Web Part

1.1.2. Custom web part

1.1.3. Third-party components

1.2. What’s the Business Data Catalog?

1.2.1. Business Data Web Parts

1.2.2. Business Data column

1.2.3. Business Data Search

1.2.4. User profile import

1.2.5. Custom solutions

1.3. BDC architecture

1.4. Data sources and how we connect to them

1.4.1. Oracle and SQL

1.4.2. Web services

1.4.3. Other data sources

1.4.4. Application definition file

1.5. Summary

Chapter 2. Understanding the application definition file

2.1. Introducing the application definition file

2.1.1. LOBSystem section

2.1.2. LOBSystemInstances section

2.1.3. Entities

2.1.4. Filter descriptors

2.1.5. Parameters

2.1.6. Business Data Catalog actions

List of Figures