PI 7.1 and SOA comaptibility

[Former Member]

Hi,

Is PI 7.1 Fully compatible with SOA guidelines and principles.

or Are there any features/functionality that is only partially or not inline with SOA guidelines and principles. If there are such, can you pls tell me.

Thanks,

Mani.

[former_member200962]

A visit to the SOA homepage on SDN can help you understand the concepts: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-soa

Regards,

Abhishek.

[Former Member]

Hi,

>>>A visit to the SOA homepage on SDN can help you understand the concepts: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-soa

I was not asking about soa, I am familiar with SOA background, basically worked with creating, exposing, consuming, providing, invoking,discovering webservices in java, .net using various tools.

My query is does SAP claim that PI 7.1 as a middleware fully as per SOA/eSOA guidelines released by standard open constoriums like W3C, or has SAP modified/tailored/updated/changed SOA guidelines for its PI 7.1 release.

I used several other middlewares, but most of them claim to be Mostly compatible and not fully compatible with eSOA guidlines.

I so, wanted to check PI 7.1 is stricly inline with esoa/soa principles and guidelines.

[former_member183906]

SAP PI 7.1 is completely inline with ESOA. I had referred it in my previous reply.

you can have this example to visualize -

/people/peter.kulka/blog/2008/06/04/how-to-deal-with-heterogeneous-esoa-landscapes

http://help.sap.com/content/documentation/esoa/docu_esoa_intro.htm

[prateek]

My answer would be no, not Fully compatibale. If you talk about open conortiums, they lay down a lot of standards and rules that is sometimes not required by a Middleware to follow. Same is the case here. All basic and obvious rules are followed, some would be modified and then implemented, yet another could be exclded.

Regards,

Prateek

[former_member188019]

thanks for your replies

[Former Member]

Hi,

PI 7.1 is fully compatible with SOA framework. but SOA is framework and PI 7.1 is a product. considering PI just as a product; it has several integration capabilitits beyond working just an service consumer/provider.

You can use the PI as seperate product, but for SAP framework ESOA, PI is one of the sore component.

If you will consider SOA, then this is framework where you may/may not use PI. As the ESB (Integration activities) can be full-fill by different integration tools.

In simple terms, PI and SOA can work as inter dependent and also can work individually.

Considering ESOA, PI 7.1 has majore role and ESOA framework must need PI 7.1, so ESOA framework is dependent on PI 7.1 but viceversa is not possible.

Thanks

Swarup

Edited by: Swarup Sawant on Sep 22, 2009 1:20 PM

[former_member183906]

PI 7.1 is completely inline with SOA guidelines. Even its based on ESOA (enterprise SOA).

For ref documents you can search in forum ,sap help or web.