ABIE as GDT, ASBIE as Business Objects?

[Former Member]

Per CCTS specifications, I gather that the ABIEs become the GDTs for global reuse, does it mean that the ASBIEs would become the business objects in the ESR for reuse? A move to a complete UML driven approach?

Any help on the above would be appreciated.

Thank you and best regards

Kartik Iyengar~

[gunther_stuhec · Accepted solution]

ASBIEs are associations to GDTs, and GDTs are either Business Objects (such as Partner) or complex structure that can't be used as Business Objects such as Address. In the case if on GDT "Partner" is an ABIE (or even a Business Object) and the GDT "Address" is also an ABIE, than the ABIE "Address" could be associated with the ABIE "Partner". Addtionally, the property of this association could be semantically expressed such as "Business" or even "Home". This will be:

(ABIE) Partner. Details

(ASBIE) Partner. Business. Address (based on ABIE: Address)

(ASBIE) Partner. Home. Address (based on ABIE: Address)

The GDT expression will be:

Partner

   BusinessAddress type="Address"

   HomeAddress type="Address"

This is not a move to the UML driven approach. It is complementary to UML, because it is mainly focusing on the expression of semantics by the names. You can use CCTS together with UML - see the UPCC (UML Profile for Core Components) project: http://www.unstandards.org:8080/display/public/UPCC-UMLProfileforCoreComponents. But nevertheless, you need also a concept for associations, and therefore we reused the association / composition from UML.

I hope this helps.

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Gunther Stuhec

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