Adapters

[Former Member]

Hi SAP-XI guru,

How adapters work in SAP-XI?what is the XI adapter and what it does while processing

message through XI?

Can we add some additional functionality to predefined Adapters and if yes then how?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Vijaya,

Check the following links for more information regarding your questions...

Info on XI ADAPTERS :

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/ae/d03341771b4c0de10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

Info on Additional functionality :

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/cd/5af7c0c994e24fb0d0088443513de2/frameset.htm

Regards,

Kshitij

[garimellavenkata_phaneend]

Adapters in SAP-XI.

Adapters are like communication bridge between the sender and receiver systems. As XI can understand only xml, adapters will help us in converting the data from native format to xml format and vice-versa.

If existing adapter didnt meet our requirements, then we can extend the functionality of the adapters by adding custom modules to the existing adapter. This process is known as Adapter Module Development.

Regards

Venkat

[former_member192295]

Hi,

Below links will hep you more information on adapters

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

[former_member183908]

Hi Vijaya

-->Adapters plays a key role in SAP-XI.

-->XI can understand only xml language.so to convert the data from native format to xml format we will configure the sender adapter,

--> and to convert the xml format to native format we configure receiver adapter.

For Example:

src data format is .txt,sender adapter converts .txt to xml and if receiver data eants to be in .txt the receiver adapter converts the xml to .txt for that we need to configure the FCC(File content conversions)

-->In Addition to this in the message flow of XI, internally XI adapter communicates between adapter engine and the integration engine.

pls search ths SDN for the message flow in XI.

-->Yes we can add using the Adapter Module development concept.In the Communication channel we have the Module Tab in that the default module call sap adapter will be there,click on add button to add additional functionalities of adapter.

Thanks

[former_member732072]

Adapters enable the integration engine to connect to older SAP systems( older than Release 6.20) as well as external systems.

[Former Member]

Hello,

Adapters are used for connecting to sender/receiver systems and they can handle the functionality of conversion of data to XML format before passing to IE.

There are module processors provided by XI by default which can then be used for additional functionality like mapping exections using XSLT FCC and own adapter functionalities.

Rajesh

[former_member750652]

Hi Vijaya,

XI/PI Adapters:

XI is an integration platform that provides Application to Application integration that resides in the same system landscape or with in the organisation it self.But when you want to integrate with the systems that resides in the landscape beyond the XI installed organisation especially we need speccial adapters from SEEBURGER inaddition to the inbuilt 11 adapters that XI ships by default .They care genarally called XI/PI adapters, used for B2B integrations that involve SAP and EDI subsystems whose data will be in EDI formats(ANSI or EDIFACT).

creating Customised adapters

Yes,we can customize adapters according to our business requirement in addition to the SAP provided .The following link has some useful informatio on Adapter customization.

Thanks,

Ram.