While building the BDC metadata, it will be for sure necessary to deploy your XML application definition many times for testing purposes. This is very simple and trivial task, but unfortunately it takes just too many clicks (>4).
The problem is that every click takes about 4-10 seconds, depending on the system hosting MOSS. The good thing is that Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor (installation issue here) provides very useful feature, which allows you to test the “Method”, before you deploy it. Following picture shows how to do that:
Posted
Jan 02 2008, 11:39 PM
by
Damir Dobric