How to decide which adapter to use from IDOC and RFC?

[Former Member]

Hi All,

When interating XI with an SAP system,

How to decide which adapter to use from IDOC and RFC?

Thanks.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

HI,

if you have a dedicated IDOC --> prefer IDOC

if you have a dedicated RFC -->prefer RFC

If you have nothing dedicated:

a) do you want sync or async communication

--> async prefer IDOC

--> sync prefer RFC

Regards Mario

[Former Member]

Hi,

you can also consider to use ABAP Proxy if you are working with Systems based on SAP Web AS 6.40.

Here some useful links:

<a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/02/265c3cf311070ae10000000a114084/content.htm">ABAP Proxy Runtime</a>

ABAP Proxies in XI(Client Proxy)

/people/ravikumar.allampallam/blog/2005/03/14/abap-proxies-in-xiclient-proxy

ABAP Server Proxies

/people/siva.maranani/blog/2005/04/03/abap-server-proxies

How do you activate ABAP Proxies?

/people/vijaya.kumari2/blog/2006/01/26/how-do-you-activate-abap-proxies

XI: Reliable Messaging EOIO in ABAP Proxies

/people/arulraja.ma/blog/2006/08/18/xi-reliable-messaging-150-eoio-in-abap-proxies

More links for proxy:

Hope this help

Francesco

[bhavesh_kantilal]

Hi,

Have a look at this blog,

/people/ravikumar.allampallam/blog/2005/08/14/choose-the-right-adapter-to-integrate-with-sap-systems

Regards

Bhavesh

[prabhu_s2]

RFC support synch processing but Idoc support only asynch processing. If your requirment is to a synch processing, then going for RFC. If a standard Idoc is available and your requirment is asynch, then Idoc will be a better choice. If your SAP system is on a WAS of 6.20 or greater and if load is going to be high then go4 proxies