Technical Details

Understand the development principals of business objects, extensibility layouts, functions, adaptors and configuration management.

• Generic Business Object
  The Extensibility Framework is independent of the underlying data model. Data is represented by generic business objects; the generic business object (BO) is an abstraction introduced on top of the currently supported OData data model.
• Extensibility Layout XML
  Configuration is the core of the Extensibility Framework.
• Formatters
  The Extensibility Framework enables you to change currency, address, phone number, date, and time formats, based on the locale settings of the device.
• Functions
  Use functions when you are concatenating strings, formatting strings, counting records in a collection, and setting default values on a control.  All functions begin with $_.
• Data Source Adaptor
  The Extensibility Framework comes with a ready-to-use OData generic business object adapter, which in turn relies on the SDM OData facade library.
• Extensibility Configuration Management
  The Extensibility Framework relies on several configuration files.