Adapters

[Former Member]

what are categories of adapters present in SAP-XI ?For what different purpose we use them?

Please explain them using some real time scenario.

[aashish_sinha]

Hi,

An XI adapter enables compatibility between XI Integration Server and application system. Adapters converts messages from the XI Protocol to the respective protocol spoken by the application systems and vice versa.

Adapters are categorized based on their functions.

Application Adapters :

SAP Applications

Sibel, Oracle, PeopleSoft Applications

Technical Adapters

File Systems (File/FTP)

RDBMS (JDBC)

Messaging Systems (JMS)

WebServices (SOAP)

Mail Servers (SMTP)

SAP BC (SAPBC)

Market Place

Industry standard Adapters

RossetaNet

CIDX

As you can see adapters can be used in different scenarios as many of the adapters available.

You can use it with FILE,RDBMS,JMS,Mails, and other standards. This means that you can use it in sending and receiving data from different business systems using these adapters.

Regards

Aashish Sinha

[former_member192295]

Hi,

Find below links for more information on adapters

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

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/ae/d03341771b4c0de10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

For R3 communication generally we are using IDOC/RFC/XI depending of requirement and for legacy systems we are using FILE/HTTP etc adapters. For web service we will use SOAP adapter. For data base connection we will use JDBC adapter and for Mail we will use Mail adapter.

[former_member750652]

Hi Vijaya,

In addition to the above valuable points about Adapters i would like to add few more .

• In addition to the above specified adapters XI uses thrid party adapters called SEEBURGER BIC adapters for communicating with EDI subsystems during B2B (Business to Business Integration).

• These adapters converts the native data format to EDI data format.

for more on Seeburger Adapters refer the following link

Thanks,

Ram.

[dharamveer_gaur2]

Hi

Use SDN Search option for these Basic qus.

[Former Member]

Hi Vijaya,

Check this beautiful blog for more information on Adapters in XI

/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/27/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-iii

And also this link

https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/XI

Regards,

Kshitij

[Former Member]

Hi,

Various adapters and its usage:

● Communicate with SAP systems using the RFC interface (RFC adapter)

● Enable data exchange with the SAP Business Connector (SAP Business Connector adapter)

● Exchange data with systems by using a file interface or an FTP server (file/FTP adapter )

● Access databases using JDBC (JDBC adapter)

● Communicate with messaging systems using the JMS API (JMS adapter)

● Integrate remote clients or Web service providers using the SOAP adapter (SOAP adapter )

● Connect e-mail servers to the PCK (mail adapter)

● Exchange data with SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI adapter)

Refer this link:

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

Regards,

Nithiyanandam