Overview of Experts in OWB

Experts are mini-applications or task-flows that developers build to carry out specific tasks in OWB. Experts enable you to capture your knowledge, expertise, and best practices in OWB and make them repeatable. The most basic use for Experts is to guide a user through a sequence of related tasks in Design Center. Experts enable the re-use the graphical UI components and capabilities of OWB. For example, the Flat File Sampler Wizard in OWB may be re-used as a component within an Expert, where the developer needs the user to define the structure of a file. The developer can have full control over how the information and metadata that is returned by the wizard is used, and can call other components, write and embed scripts, call SQL or Java, and so forth.

Uses for Experts include:

Encapsulating common practices, to ensure that developers implement tasks in a consistent fashion
Automating the performance of complex tasks to increase developer productivity
Creating user interfaces to functionality implemented as OMB*Plus scripts or in Java

Combined with the OMB*Plus scripting features and other extension mechanisms, Experts facilitate using OWB as a platform for delivering complex, reusable data integration solutions.

This section includes these additional topics about Experts: