Calling 3rd party service in ABAP

[former_member188321]

Hello Experts,

I am looking at a scenario, where I need to develop webservice which may invoke 3rd party services for some address verification purpose.

Do we generally create RFC expoed as webservice or model service in PI and then implement it in ABAP?

Also, do we need to create consumer proxies for 3rd party service or any other way possible in XI/PI?

I want to know how does the whole scenario typically developed?

Regards,

Damandeep

[former_member184681 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

If you have PI in scope, I would recommend including it in the scenario. So basically develop a SOAP to Proxy scenario in PI (or SOAP to RFC, but I would prefer the first one because of monitoring purposes). Try searching SDN to find multiple examples.

Hope this helps,

Greg

[Shabarish_Nair]

If you already have a RFC available then expose it as a WS and use it.

Else model the interface in PI and then use ABAP proxy to implement.

[former_member184681]

Well, personally I would go for PI scenario even if the RFC-enabled function module is already implemented. You can go for a SOAP to RFC scenario then, importing the FM to PI. And I think I do not have to convince you two to the adventages that PI gives here