TCP\IP Communication in the XI

[Former Member]

Hello,

We have a scenario in which we have to communicate with a 3rd party system from our ECC system using the tcp\ip protocol. We used the XI by building a BPM with a transformation step that uses a java class, in which we opened a socket connection and sent and received our messages, as described in the weblog .<a href="/people/saravanakumar.kuppusamy2/blog/2005/12/15/socket-integration-with-xi:///people/saravanakumar.kuppusamy2/blog/2005/12/15/socket-integration-with-xi

The main problem we encountered is that we have to maintain a continuous connection to the 3rd party system, and we can't find a way to make this possible using the XI (it keeps stateless beans for the transformation steps, therefore closing the connection when the class run ends).

Is there a way to maintain a continuous connection of tcp\ip from the XI? Maybe by using an adapter?

Thanks in advance,

Tal.

[Former Member]

I used the transformation class to call a custom web service that keeps the connection open and handles all tcp/ip communication.