Reg:connection between webmethoda and XI

[Former Member]

Hi gurus,

From legacy system data push into webmethoda ,from webmethods i have to push the data to Xi and SAP

is there any connetion parmeter between webmethoda to Xi or any configuration

please give me needful information

thanks

[Former Member]

Hi,

I remeber that the Webmethods provided the XI Adapter (also package for the XI related stuff) where you have register the XI system and need to convert the data to some format ....

I read that long back..but did not tried the same...search in Advantage.webmethods.com forum for documents....

HTH

Rajesh

[former_member181985]

I dont think you require XI in this case. You can directly send data as required by target SAP system from webmethods using RFC, IDOC and SOAP interfaces...

SOAP can be used if it is an ABAP Proxy interface on SAP system, as we can expose this proxy as a webservice......

In webmethods you need to install SAP Package.

Regards,

Praveen

Edited by: Praveen Gujjeti on Jan 21, 2010 5:02 PM

[former_member200962]

We used WebServices (SOAP) for communication between XI/ PI and WebMethods

Regards,

Abhishek.

[Former Member]

thanks

can you ellabrorate how we use the soap adapter between webmethods to Xi communication

thanks

[Former Member]

Hi,

Create the scenario in XI like what its has to be done ..but in this case sender will be soap and reciever will be the target system ...

once done generate the WSDL and consume the same in Webmethods....

If need more details on generating the WSDL in PI search SDN lot of threads and articles are there...

If needed how to consume the webservice in webmethods check the documents in webmethods advantage...

HTH

Rajesh

[former_member181985]

You dont require two middleware tools (Webmethods and XI) to acheive this and it is not recommended.

Use webmethods to directly integrate with the target system (SAP R/3).

XI might be required only when certain things cannot be acheived in Webmethods and it can only be achieved in XI.

Regards,

Praveen.

[former_member200962]

yes we dont require two middleware tools, but how will a company convince its client to let go one of the two middleware...especially when either of them have a good amount of resources involved....this was the case in our project and hence we had to retain WebMethods also.

@Jayant:

WebMethods and XI/ PI both have the capability of exposing its interfaces as WebServices....we made use of this capability and exposed the scenarios as webservices to each other (WM and XI/ PI)....maybe the creation of WSDLs in WM is more complicated as compared to XI/ PI but it is supported....and since SOA concept was the baseline of our project we stressed on WebServices (SOAP).

Regards,

Abhishek.

[former_member181985]

I too agree with you..........

>>maybe the creation of WSDLs in WM is more complicated as compared to XI/ PI but it is supported.

This is not true. Infact, in WM it is much easier and it (SOAP in WM) has lots of features compared to SAP XI/PI SOAP.

Regards,

Praveen Gujjeti.