(1) The process of creating a program by packaging Integrated Language Environment (ILE) modules and resolving symbols passed between those modules.
(2) A temporary association between a client and both an object and a server that exports an interface to the object. A binding is meaningful only to the program that sets it and is represented by a bound handle.
(3) The process of attaching a collaboration object to a port, which is a variable that represents a business object. These business objects are sent to or received from the collaboration object. A collaboration object can be bound to connectors, to other collaboration objects, or to external processes (called access clients). See also port.
(4) The creation of a model element or source code from a template by supplying arguments for the parameters of the template.