System requirements for web service?

[Former Member]

Good day

We would like to recieve XML messages from an external partner using a web service. We currently only have an ABAP ERP system. Is this sufficient to configure and use web services, i.e. do we require a Java application server or do we require a SAP PI system?

Thanks

Wilhelm

[Former Member]

Hi,

Get url of external webservice and create outbound proxy in SE80 to make it work. PI and Java WAS is not required

Regards,

Gourav

[Former Member]

Hi Wilhelm,

The Abap stack supports web service communication. You don't need the Java stack or PI to make it work. You just need to remember that it will be point-to-point communication so you won't have the added benefits that PI might add like some fancy mapping & routing to multiple receivers. PI also adds nice Service Interface modeling capabilities which you can't always do with just the Abap stack. Depending on your ECC version, there is also support for WS-RM scenarios that enable async web service communication if you need that kind of stuff but there's some additional config work that goes with it.

I'm assuming that you just want to web service enable some existing ECC functionality & expose that to your partner? That will work just fine on the Abap only stack.

Regards, Trevor

Edited by: Trevor Naidoo on Aug 10, 2010 12:01 PM