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