Kea Business Framework Specification

He Jian, hjnet@163.net

Kea - Busfw

Business objects are objects that represent a person, place, thing or concept in the business domain. They package business procedures, policy and controls around business data. A business object include at least its business name and definition, attributes, behavior, relationships and contraints.

Business objects actually come in three varieties: business entity objects, business event objects, and business process objects. Business entity objects represent business noun, such as people, places and things. Business event objects represent business events, such as business time boundaries, changes in the business environment, product lifecycles, etc. Business process objects represent business verbs that require multiple nouns, such as process, workflow, activities.

Kea Business Framework contains three categories of business objects:

• Common Business Object(CBO): Business objects that exists in 2 or more domains. A domain is an industry sector.
• Domain Business Object(DBO): A CBO that has been specialized for one domain.
• Localized Business Object(LBO): A CBO or DBO that has been localized. Locale means region, political jurisdiction.

The following figure illustrate the Kea Business Framework architecture:

For more details, please refer to big figure.