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Need XI Learning material

Former Member
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Hi,

Can any one provide me step by step procedure to learn XI.

Thank you

With regards

Satish

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former_member91687
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Hi Satish,

This gives you a brief idea about what you would require to do in XI and what XI is all about.

SAP XI is SAP's enterprise application integration (EAI) software, a component of the NetWeaver product group which is used to facilitate the exchange of information, which could involve SAP and non SAP systems, that is your third party systems.According to SAP, XI reduces integration costs by providing a common repository for your interfaces.

To give a brief introduction to what XI is all about, these are the components of XI:

System Landscape Directory

Integration Repository

Integration Directory

Integration Server

Integration Adapters

Integration Clients

Applications need the following proxy components to use the SAP Exchange Infrastructure directly and without adapters.

Proxy Framework

Proxy Generator

Proxy Runtime

Integration Server (IS)

To know more about these navigate through this link:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/14/80243b4a66ae0ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

Interface objects include, Business Scenarios, Business Processes, Message Interfaces, Message Types, Data Types, Message Mappings, and Interface Mappings, all of these are stored in a central repository of design-time objects called the Integration Repository. Once these are defined, you could use these objects in your directory to configure your scenario, hence reusability plays an important role here.

Business Scenarios are used to describe and document the Integration Scenarios implemented through the XI, they can be extended via the integrated Business Process Engine to implement cross-component Business Process Management, or CCBPM.

Once this is done you configure the scenario by correlating the sender and receiver systems for the defined interface objects. This includes defining the Communication channels through which you route the information by choosing the appropriate adapter (or you could go for proxies), Receiver Determination, in which one or more business systems are selected as the receiver of the message, the Interface Determination, where the a target interface is selected

The configuration created in the Integration Directory is executed at runtime by the Integration Server.

This I just a very brief and basic introduction to what you will be doing in XI. If you have any particular scenario you could try implementing them to get a hang of how to go about working with XI.There are good blogs on sdn about these which would help you.

If you need any further clarifications do get back.

Regards,

Chandra

Former Member
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Hi Satish,

hope the following links help u in learning XI:

XI -Starter

/people/sap.user72/blog/2005/12/22/new-to-xi

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/e1/8e51341a06084de10000009b38f83b/frameset.htm

SAP XI - Where to Find Information

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/xi/sap xi - where to find information.pdf

All the information you need in XI :

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/0f/80243b4a66ae0ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

To understand the architecture of XI, Please go through this link,

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/14/80243b4a66ae0ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

You can also go through the url for Elearning :

https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/elearning.sdn // https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/sdnpilot/elearning

Following is the link for 'how to guides', A step by step guide to create scenarios:

https://websmp201.sap-ag.de/nw-howtoguides

XI is all about configuration of Adapters, to learn more please go through this link:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/0d/5ab43b274a960de10000000a114084/frameset.htm

One of the most powerful feature of XI, Business Process Management:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/3c/831620a4f1044dba38b370f77835cc/frameset.htm

How the messages are delivered through XI:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/17/50d440e14f8431e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

Once you go through these links and are a bit aware what all XI objects do, you can try a simple "File to File Scenario" which would help you to understand XI objects in a much better manner.

For help on this scenario go through this blog it is in two parts thus I am providing both links below:

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/02/introduction-to-simplefile-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart1

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/03/introduction-to-simple-file-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart2

Regards,

Archana

bhavesh_kantilal
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Hi Satish,

Welcome to the world of XI.

From the little experience i have had in XI, the best way to learn XI would

be to use the Wealth of material available in XI from its forums, weblogs, presentations ,etc.

Also, I would suggest this link on SAP help for any info that you want on XI,

XI Documentation

Further, these thread deals with everything that is needed for a starter on XI. Do check it out,

As for the pre requsities to learn XI, knowledge of either Java or ABAP and both is very useful. But, that does nt mean that you cannot do without either.

What is XI all about

It enables you to connect systems from different vendors (non-SAP and SAP) in different versions and implemented in different programming languages (Java, ABAP, and so on) to each other. SAP Exchange Infrastructure is based on an open architecture, uses open standards (in particular those from the XML and Java environments).

Hope all this info helps,

Regards,

Bhavesh

Message was edited by: Bhavesh Kantilal

Former Member
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Hi Satish,

First i would like to welcome to the fascinating world of XI. If it’s just that you wanted to know more about sap xi....then the information below should definitely help you.

The best way to learn XI would be to make the maximum use of XI from its forums, weblogs, presentations, etc in SDN.

First I thought I will just give u the basic steps involved in doing any scenario in XI. This is very essential for a beginner.

First of all you would need to define your product, software component, business system and configure the technical landscape in the sld.

You then go on to create the objects in the repository, you import your software component here and then begin your design steps. To import your RFCs n Idocs if you require any before proceeding.

Then under the name space which you want, you go on to define your data types, message types and message interfaces.

Then you do your message mappings where you specify your source and target message types and the relation between them, then you do your interface mapping. If you are using a BPM, you do the integration process.

Once you have this done, you will have to move to the directory, here is where you define how you use the objects and how you configure them to work as a scenario.

You assign your business system to the configuration scenario which you have created, and create the communication channels. Then you go on to configure the receiver determination, interface determination, and the sender and receiver agreements. Once you’re done you will have make sure you activate your objects. The exact parameters steps depend on what kind of scenario you are implementing.

You can use sxmb moni or the runtime workbench to monitor the entire scenario which you have done.

Also I would suggest this link on SAP help for any info that you want on XI,

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/14/80243b4a66ae0ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

Further, this thread deals with everything that is needed for a starter on XI. Do check them out,

/message/527697#527697 [original link is broken]

And after you are done with the documentation probably you can go through this scenario,

Also check the following threads which might help you a little more,

Now lets see the installation of SAP XI,

Follow these steps while installing XI:

1. Windows server or advanced server with latest service patch.

2. IE 6.0 with latest service patch

3. Install Microsoft office and winzip, acrobat

4. Install JDK with version 1.4.2_03 or above with the corresponding JVM

5. Install the SAP GUI 6.20

6. Make sure that you have hard disk space of 10 GB in C drive and 50 GB in the installation drive.

7. Make sure the virtual memory is between 512 and 1594 or above for the installation drive.

8. Copy the dumps of following DVDs into the installation drive.

• Installation Master DVD

• Installation Export

• Additonal Components for SAP BW/SAP XI,SAP MI,SAP KW

• SAP Web As Java

9. Start the installation from the DVD dump Installation Master DVD.

10. When installing the ABAP Database the SID of the oracle default database should be different the ABAP database SID.

U can go through the Installtion Guides for Installing XI from http://service.sap.com/instguides (SR1 installation)

u can also refer to service.sap.com/platforms to see the available platform on which XI can be installed. ( Windows/linux/UNIX)

or you can even go through this weblog which clearly talks to you about XI installation

<a href="/people/sap.user72/blog/2005/05/31/my-experience-with-xi-installation-on-fedora-core-3-linux installation</a>

In addition to this installation guide you also need to download the XI configuration guide which is very useful for technical configurations of various adapters and XI system.

At the same place you will also get the XI configuration guide e.g XI30ConfigGuideSPS11.pdf.

U can also download SAP Exchange Infrastructure 3.0 SR1 Installtion Guide from the articles scetion.

In simple words regarding learning XI, there is an abundance of information on SDN and help.sap.com…. So I think it will be better for you to search information there rather than me just providing you links….which will just go on and on and on….so I felt it is better for you to go and search so that not only you get information on SAP XI but also explore SDN in its real sense.

Regards,

Abhy

PS: AWARD POINTS FOR HELPFUL ANSWERS.

Message was edited by: Abhy Thomas