What is the advantage of using HTTP Adapter?

[Former Member]

Hello friends

I have so far used File, XI and JDBC adapters for my job related work.

I was wondering if there is any advantages of using HTTP adapter and am trying to see where exactly it will be helpful to use HTTP adapter.

Any response to this question will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Ram

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hey

its not really the advantage part which is the deciding factor in use of any adapter,its basically the functionality factor that decides,ofcourse if you have a choice then the advantage factor comes into play.

if the system you are integrating accepts only HTTP calls then you can use only HTTP.

one advantage of HTTP over SOAP is that HTTP is better performance vise coz it runs directly on IE.

Thanx

Aamir

[Former Member]

Hi Ram,

advantages of using HTTP adapter ...?

As you know only two adapters are sitting on the ABAP-STACK one is the Idoc And the other is HTTP adapters ..so one adavantage is no use of sender agreement as it directly goes into Integration-Server

for more information look into this links

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/0d/5ab43b274a960de10000000a114084/frameset.htm

Regarding HTTP-adapters

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/0d/5ab43b274a960de10000000a114084/frameset.htm

Configuring the Sender Plain HTTP Adapter

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/0d/5ab43b274a960de10000000a114084/frameset.htm

Configuring the Receiver Plain HTTP Adapter :

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/0d/5ab43b274a960de10000000a114084/frameset.htm

This may help u a lot

Regards,

Azeez khan.

[agasthuri_doss]

Hi,

As Aamir mentioned & Adding to his Post

Since HTTP Adapter in ABAP Stack no need Sender Agreement and its performance of sending data is faster when compare to other adapters since HTTP directly hits integration Engine.

Regards

Agasthuri Doss

[VijayKonam]

Another advantage.. would be to test a scenario when one does not know about the sender system details and protocol but only the message format.. One can test at development stage using HTTP adapter, if the desired results are achieved..!!

May not be a standard way.. but obviously easy to go with..

VJ