The Informatica Connector Toolkit internally uses an Adapter Specific Object (ASO) model to represent operations on native metadata objects.
The ASO model serves as a container for native metadata objects and associates operations such as read, write, or lookup with the native metadata objects. A native metadata object represents the native importable metadata of a data source such as a flat file, relational data source, and nonrelational data source. An ASO model contains references to multiple native metadata objects and operations.
Do not use the ASO models directly to define operations on native metadata objects. Use the Informatica Connector Toolkit to define operations on native metadata objects.