SAP NetWeaver PI and iWay Adapter for Oracle eBusiness

[Former Member]

Hi All,

We have request from our EDI customer to know is how iWay adapter works within the SAP NetWeaver PI adapter framework and by using this adapter, what additional effort, if any, is required to perform the message transformation. By using iWay adapter, will it simplify the whole mapping process? As we do not have working knowledge of this adapter, we will need to gather more info around this. Any helpful from experts here based on your previous project with PI and iWay Adapter?

Thanks and appreciate your help.

Andri

[kkram · Accepted solution]

EDI adapters, be it Seeburger or iWay are custom adapters that use JCA and can be deployed in the adapter engine of PI/XI. These adapters primarily streamline the process of connecting to the VAN to send and received messages. While receiving from the VAN, they convert the message to XML format and push it to the integration server (like any other adapter) and vice-versa for sending to VAN.

i stand to understand both adapters provide some out of the box mapping to transform from and to EDI standards but in my experience, most EDI implementations have customized the messsages to their needs. So you may not be able to use the mapping programs as-is but could be used as a starting point.

Thanks

KK

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Satish and KK,

Thank you for your quick reply and very helpfull links, basically we would like to sizing our effort (mandays may be) to implement PI with iWay since our customer has broaden knowldge in ABAP Programming not in Java/J2EE. They asked us how far they current knowledge if they implement PI and iWay Adapter.

Based on KK's reply, would you sizing your sizing customized effort based on your previous project experience? Thanks

"most EDI implementations have customized the messsages to their needs. So you may not be able to use the mapping programs as-is but could be used as a starting point."

Cheers,

Andri

[kkram · Accepted solution]

If your customer is already doing EDI from SAP environment with a different translator, then depending on how they send data to the translator, there could be some custom transfromation to be worked.

I don't think knowledge of Java is a must to handle any of these EDI adapters, though it helps. You can always do graphical mapping. You can also use XI as just a pipe to the VAN. That is, all transformation is done in ABAP and data is sent to XI as proxy which has message in the XML format as required by the adatpers. Same is true for the inbound direction as well.

KK

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks KK

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

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[Former Member]

Hi Andri,

Seeburger and Iway are the two companies which makes adapters for the EDI world. Also Iway has few adapters for different applications like peoplesoft, siebel etc. So if your company wants to integrate with your trading partners with EDI messages either you can buy Seeburger or Iway adapters.

Once you buy the correponding adaper you need to install in your j2EE engine and then import the metadata into IR. You can get the predefined standard xsds and mapping also. If you dont want to customize you can use them directly else you can customise. Please check this weblogs on how to integrate Iway adapters with SAP XI:

/people/yomeshp.sharma/blog/2006/06/01/integrating-jdedwards-system-with-xi-using-iway-adapter-part--i

/people/yomeshp.sharma/blog/2006/06/01/integrating-jdedwards-system-with-xi-using-iway-adapter-part--ii

/people/yomeshp.sharma/blog/2006/05/31/integrating-jdedwards-system-with-xi-using-iway-adapter-part--iii

Also some more information here:

http://www.iwaysoftware.jp/products/adapter/sap_01.html

http://www.iwaysoftware.jp/pdf/iWay_SAP_TechBrief1.pdf

http://iwse.ibi.com/iway55/documentation/smsp2/IWAY55_SM_install.pdf

Regards,

---Satish