Can ECC invoke the webservices directly in any other machine.

[Former Member]

Hello All,

Kindly Clarify the following Qestions.

1: Can ECC invoke the webservices directly in any other machine. If yes, how much effort is involved in it.

2: can it receive the response and do some processing on it

3: Is netweaver required separately for doing this or the current ECC license we have has the functionality built in

4: What are the other formats in which we can push data from our SAP on realtime basis to other systems. ( XML, flat files or other formats)

5: Can ECC expose any function module ( BAPI, IDOC) as webservice and other system invoke the same

Thanks & Regards

Chandra Shekar

[Former Member]

Hi,

>1: Can ECC invoke the webservices directly in any other machine. If yes, how much effort is involved in >it.

Yes. You have to genrate a client proxy and a program to use this client proxy

>2: can it receive the response and do some processing on it

Of course ! What would be the purpose to call web services and not be able to use the fetched data ?

>3: Is netweaver required separately for doing this or the current ECC license we have has the >functionality built in

ECC is enough.

>4: What are the other formats in which we can push data from our SAP on realtime basis to other >systems. ( XML, flat files or other formats)

Whatever you like : the limit is your programming skills.

>5: Can ECC expose any function module ( BAPI, IDOC) as webservice and other system invoke the >same

Yes, because ECC is based on Netweaver 7.0 and inherits its possibilities.

By the way you could have got easily all these answers by digging a little bit in the documentation...

Regards,

Olivier