TO DEVELOP AN EDI ADAPTER IN XI

[Former Member]

What is the procedure to be followed to develop an EDI adapter in XI?

Can anyone help me out in this regard?

Regards

Leela Ratnam

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

you mean to say you want to develop your EDI adapter? or want to know how EDI message can be exchange in XI?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Farooq

I want to develop EDI adapter.Kindly help me out.

Regards

leela.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I have not done it before but I think it will be very difficult.

If SAP XI can manage to develope EDI adapters then SAP XI dont require third party adapters for EDI conversion.

We have other options as well for EDI message conversion.

here are the few links which u can refer.

1) Using stylus studio

2) conversion agent

http://www.stylusstudio.com/edi/EDIFACT_translate.html

The steps to convert EDI to XML / XSD can be found at the following link:

http://www.stylusstudio.com/edifact_to_xml.html

Stylus studio download link: http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml_download.html

Or

Using the Conversion agent

/people/william.li/blog/2006/03/17/how-to-get-started-using-conversion-agent-from-itemfield

/people/paul.medaille/blog/2005/11/18/conversion-agent-a-free-lunch

/people/alexander.bundschuh/blog/2006/03/14/integrate-sap-conversion-agent-by-itemfield-with-sap-xi

/people/paul.medaille/blog/2005/11/17/more-on-the-sap-conversion-agent-by-itemfield

Thnx

Chirag

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Chirag,

Ya it is difficult to develop an adapter.But we are trying to develop it.If you know any ideas regarding this u can help me in this.

Thanks & Regards,

Leela

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I will give up here as I dont have any idea or further information which I could have shared with u.

Thnx

Chirag

[Former Member]

Hi,

Why u wanted to develop EDi adapters there are third party EDI adapters available in the market.

Third party adapters are provided by Seeburger which is used to integrate EDI scenarios. Adapters are AS2,VAN,OFTPS,X400.

U need to purchase a license for the same.

The SEEBURGER Business Integration Converter (BIC) is an any-to-any format converter, used to translate EDI data and legacy data formats into XML and vice versa. It can also be used for complex, high performance XML-to-XML mappings or to interface to existing JDBC data sources.

Supported EDI formats include:

• ANSI

• EDIFACT

• INHOUSE

• IDOC

• XML Schema

• XML DTD

• CSV

• Delimited Data

• positional data

• SWIFT

• EANCOM

and many more.

See for converting the EDI XML to EDI and XML-EDI you need to have a seeburger mapping program at the adapter module which does the conversion. For this module you need a BIC tool of seeburger which provides the different module program for EDI to XML and XML-EDI. This program needs to be deployed on XI and through adapter it has to be called for conversion.

EDI Adapter by SeeBurger

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/206e2b65-2ca8-2a10-edad-f2d13916...

B2B(EDI) Integration using SAP Netweaver XI and Seeburger AS2 Adapter

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/00f9cdf5-d812-2a10-03b4-aff3bbf7...

Integrating XI with SeeBurger

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/6dc02f5d-0601-0010-cd9d-f4ff9a7e...

Thnx

Chirag