adapter types

[Former Member]

In XI we have 3 categories of adapters.

1. technical

2.application

3.Industry standard

Actually all adapters...... change the data from one message format to another. But why only idoc and rfc are called application adapters. why not they are called technical adapters. why the adapters that are mentioned under technical adapters are called so and why not idoc and rfc adapters are called as technical adapters ?? similarly why not industry standard adapters? Is there any specific reason behind that ??

[former_member529475 · Accepted solution]

Hi Palnati Kumar,

Application adapters are application-specific like IDOC for R/3 systems. So the constraint with application adapters is you cant use them with other type of system. This is why technical adapter is mostly used like File adapter because they can communicate with differnet types of systems - you can use file adapter to send a file to a Windows system, Unix system etc.

Techincal adapter are used where can interact with any application regardless of aplication speicifc adapters.

Most of the we go for techincal adapter because no need to buy or create appllication adapters as these are extra cost when we are able to do with techincal adapters which are provided by SAP by deafult so no need to go for application adapters

Application adapter are speicific to application suppose if you take R/3 as application then use application adapters RFC,IDOC.

Techincal adapters are common adapter such FILE,HTTP,JDBC.

see below links

Cheers...

Vasu

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[Former Member]

If i am not wrong Vasu when we use IDOC OR RFC adapter then data has to be passed to SAP APPLICATION for example if we are using rfc then corresponding rfc program will be executed in the receiver sap application and if it is a sender sap application then again program / transaction has to be used to send the data to the xi server suppose to transfer idoc BD tcodes can be used. So for either sending or receiving interaction occurs at the Application level in SAP.

Other adapters interaction is more at the OS LEVEL irrespective of the platform.

Is that right?

Cheers,

*RAJ*

[Former Member]

As Michal pointed out....

IDOC and RFC adapter can only be used with sap applications and they are default provided by sap.

Technical adapter: Other adapters are used to interface with various technical system for example a file adapter can be used for creating a .txt or excel file. Thats not possible with either with idoc or rfc.

Industry standard: These are the adapters that are provided by Various consortiums for example Rosetta Net (RNIF) which is a consortium of more than 500 organization to create and implement internet based standards for exchange of data.

Cheers,

<b>RAJ*

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[Former Member]

Hey

>>change the data from one message format to another

No,they change from one format to XML and Vice-versa

>>But why only idoc and rfc are called application adapters.

coz R/3(also CRM,BW/BI SRM etc) are called application systems and these adapters are used to integrate it.

>>Is there any specific reason behind that ??

probably,thats the way SAP likes to call them:)

Thanx

Ahmad

[MichalKrawczyk]

Hi,

to my guess application adapters serve mainly to connect with one

application (in case of IDOc, rfc it's SAP)

on the other hand technical adapters like file can be used with all applications

industry standard adapters support world wide known sntadards

as CDIX etc

Regards,

michal