Technical XI Adapter

[Former Member]

XI offers a number of technical adapters "out of the box". Can someone please explain what the XI technical adapter does? It is suppose to be used at proxy runtime, but for what purpose?

[sam_raju · Accepted solution]

Hi Kirk,

You got it right. The XI Adapter in XI is used to exchanges messages with an Integration Engine using proxies. In addition the XI adapter is also used to exchange messages between SAP XI and PCK.

Refer the below links on help.sap.com for more info.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/e1/091640a991c742e10000000a1550b0/content.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/02/265c3cf311070ae10000000a114084/content.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/85/78af1bf407434796aaf8dbd6d4e7b7/content.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/5b/12b7e6a466456aa71ef852af033b34/content.htm

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Sam Raju

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hey Sam, Thanks for the solution. Hopefully you remember me. You taught an XI Deep-Dive course last May for my colleagues and I out of the SAP training center in Northern CA. It was a 2 day session. Hope all is well.

[Former Member]

Hi Miller,

The following link explains the use of Xi adapter:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/e9/61e1407e858031e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

Regards,

Anuradha.B

[Former Member]

Hi Miller,

Hope the following link helps you :

https://websmp206.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/011000358700009390382004E/New_Company_Files/Updated_Solutions/So...

Regards,

Anuradha.B

[Former Member]

Hi Kirk,

Technical Adaptors are different from Proxies.

There are many technical adaptors available in XI like JDBC, Mail, FTP, etc. These adaptors are used to connect to the respective systems like DB, Mail Server, File Server, etc. We need to configure those adaptors while configuring communication channel. These are all the adaptors developed by vendors other than SAP like iway. Thats why it is called "out of box". Even though it is out of box, it will be deleiverd along with XI itself.

Even SAP has its own application adaptors to connect RFC and IDOC.

If we are using proxies, it is not necessary to use any of those adaptors. However, proxies can be used in higher versions of SAP 6.20.

Hope this will clear your doubt.

Happy learning,

Prasad U

[former_member185846]

Hi,

Industry business messaging standards in use today are developed by consortia of companies primarily from within specific industries. Their main goal is to develop open standards and processes that enable trading partners within and across industries to exchange standardized business messages within an e-business environment. Some of these standards include, for example, RosettaNet for the high tech industry, CIDX for the chemical industry, PIDX for the petroleum industry, and so on. SAP NetWeaver supports these industry verticals within the technology offering by providing them with business packages. These business packages contain the collaboration knowledge as defined by the industry standard and also the technical B2B adapters that are needed to do the actual transport, routing, and packaging of these industry standard messages.

Companies need out-of-the-box support for specific industry verticals. By providing the business packages for the different industry verticals, customers can quickly get connect to their different business partners, vendors, and suppliers by using the processes and methodology defined by the industry vertical. Companies also need to handle different versions of the standard interfaces centrally. They also require the ability to manage trading partners centrally, maintaining collaboration profiles and agreements as defined by the industry vertical standard. Additionally, companies may have smaller business partners who need support in order to exchange XML documents using industry standards.

For further info please go thru the following links.

http://searchsap.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid21_gci1146885,00.html (Under the haeading Enabling business-to-business processes)

/people/sap.user72/blog/2004/12/22/sap-exchange-infrastructure-and-adapters

P.S. provide valid points if you are satisfied.

Rgds,

Jothivel.

Message was edited by: Jothivel Sundaram

Message was edited by: Jothivel Sundaram

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[Former Member]

Thanks, for the feedback, but this is not the answer I needed. I am asking specifically about the XI technical adapter, not anything related to industry or B2B adapters