Webserice and BAPI

[Former Member]

Can any one tell the difference between the webserice and BAPI ? or give some links so that i can get knowledge from it.

With Regards,

Balachander

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Subbiah,

Check these two threads:

BAPI:

/thread/157026 [original link is broken]

WebService:

Hope this will resolve all ur concern.

Regards,

Subhasha Ranjan

[Former Member]

Hi Bala,

<u>Web Services</u>

To a great extent, communication between B2B and e-Commerce applications is based on manually declared interfaces, message formats, and arrangements between business partners. Using Web services, this process can be simplified. Web services are Web-based interfaces that can be integrated into business scenarios of a company based on open and commonly accepted standards. Using Web services enables you to combine functions implemented on different software components into a single process.

Web services are self-contained, modularized, executable entities that can be published, searched for, and accessed across a network. For a caller or sender, a Web service is a black box that may require input and delivers a result.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d6/f9bc3d52f39d33e10000000a11405a/content.htm

<u>BAPI</u>

BAPI (Business Application Programming Interface) is a set of interfaces to object-oriented programming methods that enable a programmer to integrate third-party software into the proprietary R/3 product from SAP. For specific business tasks such as uploading transactional data, BAPIs are implemented and stored in the R/3 system as remote function call (RFC) modules.

http://searchsap.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid21_gci948835,00.html#quickstart

Thanks!

-SanS-

[JPReyes]

Hi Balacheander,

You'll find good info in this thread,

Regards

Juan

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