Differences between the Mapping types.

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have a query we are using the diff types of mappigs i.e.

1 Graphical Mapping

2. Java Mapping

3 XSLT Mapping

4 ABAP Mapping.

what are the differences in the above types and davantages and disadvanteages.

[prasanthi_chavala · Accepted solution]

Hi Prabhakar,

Go through the following links:

Graphical mapping

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/6d/aadd3e6ecb1f39e10000000a114084/content.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/43/c4cdfc334824478090739c04c4a249/content.htm

/people/bhanu.thirumala/blog/2006/02/02/graphical-message-mapping-150-text-preview

http://www.sapgenie.com/netweaver/xi/mapping1.htm

/people/alessandro.guarneri/blog/2006/01/26/throwing-smart-exceptions-in-xi-graphical-mapping

XSLT mapping

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/73/f61eea1741453eb8f794e150067930/content.htm

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/

JAVA mapping

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/e2/e13fcd80fe47768df001a558ed10b6/content.htm

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/org/w3c/dom/package-frame.html

ABAP mapping

/people/r.eijpe/blog

To know more about the value mapping tools for the SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI), please go thru the following link:

http://www.applicon.dk/fileadmin/filer/XI_Tools/ValueMappingTool.pdf

To get an idea as to what value mapping is, please go thru the following links:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/13/ba20dd7beb14438bc7b04b5b6ca300/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/f2/dfae3d47afd652e10000000a114084/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/2a/9d2891cc976549a9ad9f81e9b8db25/content.htm

Regards,

Prasanthi.

[prabhu_s2]

<b>1 Graphical Mapping</b> The classical mapping what u see in message mapping. advantage is u need not code explicitly. disadvantage is very complex req cannot be met. this gives way to the below mappings

<b>2. Java Mapping</b> advantage is u can use both sax and dom parsers

<b>3 XSLT Mapping</b> simpler than java mapping but u cannot use much of API's..u might have the option of looks up in xslt mapping

<b>4 ABAP Mapping.</b> i'm not sure if sax parsers are aviable here. so far i had seen use of dom parsers in the sdn forums for abap mapping

look here for performance test on the above mapping:

/people/udo.martens/blog/2006/08/23/comparing-performance-of-mapping-programs

[Former Member]

HI,

You have the lot many of links for all above four type of techniques,

See the below link for performance wise..

Comparing Performance of Mapping Programs - /people/udo.martens/blog/2006/08/23/comparing-performance-of-mapping-programs

Regards

Chilla

[agasthuri_doss]

Hi

This will help you

Mapping:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/c8/b78d406b305537e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

For Java Mapping:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/e2/e13fcd80fe47768df001a558ed10b6/frameset.htm

For XSLT Mapping:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/73/f61eea1741453eb8f794e150067930/frameset.htm

Error handling in XSLT Mapping:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/8a/7672f7d7e444439fd7024f806221a4/frameset.htm

You can also refer some How to guides:

XI New Mapping Features article,

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/xi/xi%203.0%20new%...

Generic XSLT Mapping and Sample Code,

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/xi/xi%20code%20sam...

How to use ABAP-MApping in XI3.0,

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/xi/3.0/how%20to%20...

Regards

Agasthuri Doss

[Former Member]

Graphical mapping -> We choose this mapping if the messages are small and no much complicated mappings are necessary...This is done by just dragging from sender to receiver message in the IR

Java Mapping-> This is done when the mapping is a bit complex...this mapping give a lot of flexibility .you can also access runtime constants like senderName or receiverName to implement a mapping that depends on message header

content.

XSLT Mapping->

Messages are in the form of XML documents. XSL Transformation (XSLT) is a member of the XML family of languages. It describes how an XML structure is transformed into another XML structure. We can even call external Java methods to convert XML messages

ABAP Mapping ->

This is based on ABAP OO classes

Regards

Krishna

[former_member335553]

Hi

please refer these threads which has all info