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Integration with SAP R/3 using Biztalk 2004
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| Hi all,
I need to send data to SAP (coming from a punch clock system) using BTS 2k4.
I understand that I need to install two different adapters in my BTS
envrionment to integrate my puch clock system with SAP. These connectors are:
SAP .Net connector
SAP adapter for BTS 2k4
Can anyone explain why do I need two adapters and what are the services
offered by each if them?
Tks
Dan
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| Eric Landes 2005-01-18, 5:50 pm |
| Dan,
My understanding is that the .NET Connector actually provides the low level
connection support. In theory, you could just use that to connect to SAP,
but you'd need to create your own interface, like a Web Service etc. The
adapter (which I have some questions on), gives access to SAP functions and
Idocs. For instance it will generate an IDOC schema from your SAP system
(which is a function I want). I'm a newbie to the adapter, so you'll want to
do more investigation, but that's my take on it so far. I'm sure there's
more to the adapter that I haven't investigated yet.
"Dan" wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need to send data to SAP (coming from a punch clock system) using BTS 2k4.
> I understand that I need to install two different adapters in my BTS
> envrionment to integrate my puch clock system with SAP. These connectors are:
>
> SAP .Net connector
> SAP adapter for BTS 2k4
>
> Can anyone explain why do I need two adapters and what are the services
> offered by each if them?
>
> Tks
>
> Dan
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| Nabeel Prior 2005-01-18, 5:50 pm |
| The SAP .Net Connector is SAP's .Net library that allows for RFC-based
communication with SAP. The SAP Adapter utilises the connector's classes to
implement the functions that allow for communication between BizTalk and
SAP.
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Kind Regards,
Nabeel Prior
Web: http://www.brainjar.co.za
Blog: http://www.brainjar.co.za/blog.aspx
"Eric Landes" <EricLandes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CA0603D4-DC78-4AB7-B6CF-45AA038D6105@microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Dan,
> My understanding is that the .NET Connector actually provides the low
> level
> connection support. In theory, you could just use that to connect to SAP,
> but you'd need to create your own interface, like a Web Service etc. The
> adapter (which I have some questions on), gives access to SAP functions
> and
> Idocs. For instance it will generate an IDOC schema from your SAP system
> (which is a function I want). I'm a newbie to the adapter, so you'll want
> to
> do more investigation, but that's my take on it so far. I'm sure there's
> more to the adapter that I haven't investigated yet.
>
> "Dan" wrote:
>
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| Balaji, US COE Lead Architect - BizTalk 2005-02-22, 2:46 am |
| The SAP Adpapter in addition allows the following
1. Allows you browse all the RFC's and BAPI that you want to use. You do
this by configuring your adapter to talk to a particular instance
2. Once you do this you can browse and choose any RFC and BAPI that you want
to talk to in the SAP system.
3. On selection of the RFC or BAPI the SAP adapter creats an xml schema for
that RFC and BAPI.
4. All you need to do from there on is to map your document inside BizTalk
2004 to that document schema.
5. The SAP adapter just shows up as a send port and you can connect a send
shape to this port once you have done to the transformation to the schema
that the adapter created. This port is a request response port.
6. The cool thing now is that you will get a response from SAP which is the
same as the return structure for Familiar SAP users which you now use to
figure out inside BizTalk to do exception handling or firther processing
decisions based on what you see in the response.
7. The only difference between RFC/BAPI and IDOCs is that IDOCs do not
return anything. That behavior is by definition the way SAP treats IDOCs.
I wish there was a way to stick some jpegs here. I could have probably
explained it better.
"Nabeel Prior" wrote:
> The SAP .Net Connector is SAP's .Net library that allows for RFC-based
> communication with SAP. The SAP Adapter utilises the connector's classes to
> implement the functions that allow for communication between BizTalk and
> SAP.
>
> --
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> Kind Regards,
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> Nabeel Prior
> Web: http://www.brainjar.co.za
> Blog: http://www.brainjar.co.za/blog.aspx
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> "Eric Landes" <EricLandes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CA0603D4-DC78-4AB7-B6CF-45AA038D6105@microsoft.com...
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