Standard protocols to send documents to XI?

[Former Member]

XIers,

The company that I am working for needs to send some data to their business partner. The partner is running XI. The data has to be sent once a night.

My company is very small and is looking for the cheapest possible automation. My idea is to simply generate an XML file that can be sent over to XI.

My knowledge of XI is rather limited. Please bear with me for a newbie question. As XI is a B2B communication mechanism, I am guessing XI must support standard ways of receiving documents:

1. FTP - Simply "ftp put" a document to the FTP address provided by the business partner. This FTP address is configured within XI user interface.

2. EMail - Simply send an email with the document being an attachment. The email address is configured within XI user interface.

3. HTTP - I am guessing it may be possible to upload files via http.

As far as the format of the XML document is concerned, I guess we have two choices -

a) Create XML file that adheres to some IDoc specifications

b) Create any well formatted XML file.

In the latter case, there would be some more work for the business partner to map the XML data into their environment. This is okay with me:-).

I would appreciate it if someone can answer the following questions:

1. Is my assumption about EMAIL/FTP/HTTP/HTTPS right?

2. What is preferred in terms of best practice? I guess HTTPS is most secure.

3. Is my assumption about generaing any well formatted XML file valid?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Pradeep

[bhavesh_kantilal]

Pradeep,

<i>Is my assumption about EMAIL/FTP/HTTP/HTTPS right?</i>

Yes, you are on the right track. take a look at this link for more details on the adapters prvided by XI,

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/0d/5ab43b274a960de10000000a114084/content.htm

<i>Is my assumption about generaing any well formatted XML file valid?</i>

Yes once again.

<i>What is preferred in terms of best practice? I guess HTTPS is most secure.</i>

XI supports both HTTP and HTTPS . Also, File adapter in XI supports FTPS. So, it depends on the entire landscape and which adapter you are using for integration.

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/02/introduction-to-simplefile-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart1 - File to File Part 1

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/03/introduction-to-simple-file-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart2 - File to File Part 2

/people/arpit.seth/blog/2005/06/27/rfc-scenario-using-bpm--starter-kit - File to RFC

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/1685 [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] - File to Mail

Regards,

Bhavesh