A business data object is a data container for business information such as purchase orders, purchase order acknowledgements, ship notices, invoices, billing records, and functional acknowledgements.
A business data object can be any object that supports Component Object Model (COM) interfaces for reading and writing the contained data. Specifically, the business data object can consist of any of the following:
The business data object is usually referenced by the Object name/value pair in a Transport Dictionary.
Note There is no interface that a business data object must implement to be a business data object. However, if you want to use CIP Mapping objects, this object must implement the IPersistXML, IPersistStream, or IPersistStreamInit interfaces (see MapToXML and MapFromXML). Optionally, you can write your own mapping component.