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Using a Siebel Business Service Transformation in a Mapping

A Siebel Business Service transformation can have the following types of input and output arguments:

Integration object. Provides a logical representation of external application data or Siebel data that corresponds to an external application.

Hierarchy object. Represents hierarchical Siebel data stored in the Siebel application.

Date, String, or Number. Date, String, and Number are primitive datatypes.

The following table describes the input and output ports of a Siebel Business Service transformation:

Input Argument	Output Argument	Description
Integration object	Date, String, or Number	An integration object is passed as an XML string to a Siebel Business Service transformation. You can directly pass the XML string to the Siebel Business Service transformation or use an XML Generator transformation to generate the integration object as an XML string.
Date, String, or Number	Integration object	An integration object is generated as an XML string by the Siebel Business Service transformation. Use an XML Parser transformation to parse the XML string generated by the Siebel Business Service transformation.
Integration object	Integration object	You can directly pass the XML string to the Siebel Business Service transformation or use an XML Generator transformation to generate the integration object as an XML string. Use an XML Parser transformation to parse the XML string generated by Siebel Business Service transformation.
Hierarchy object	Date, String, or Number	A hierarchy object is directly passed as an XML string to a Siebel Business Service transformation.
Date, String, or Number	Hierarchy object	A hierarchy object is generated as an XML string by a Siebel Business Service transformation.
Hierarchy object	Hierarchy object	A hierarchy object is directly passed as an XML string to a Siebel Business Service transformation. A hierarchy object is generated as an XML string by the Siebel Business Service transformation.