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At design time, an integration developer designs the integration-relevant aspects of a business application at an abstract level, independent from any implementation-relevant details.

The following aspects of a business process can already be specified at design time:

  • The process flow and its separation into individual process components (or application components)

    More information: Process Models

  • The interfaces that determine the data exchange between process components and the detailed structure of the data - of the messages - that is being exchanged

    More information: Interface Objects

  • The mapping or transformation of data structures on both sides of a connection

    More information: Mapping Objects

The following figure gives an overview of these entities. On the left side it shows a complete integration scenario spanning a huge set of process components and connections; on the right side, the details of one single connection between two process components are shown:

Figure 1: Integration-Relevant Aspects of a Business Process that can be Specified Already at Design Time
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The design time-relevant aspects are specified and stored in the Enterprise Services Repository (ES Repository). The corresponding content is referred to as integration content .