EDI ADAPTER ........

[Former Member]

Dear Experts

If we develop our own EDI adapter...is there any way by which we can use our own adapter in XI..??

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Azahar,

Just see if these links help you in anyways:

http://www.seeburger.it/fileadmin/it/pdf/2005_04_sapphire_Ferrero_transcript.pdf

http://www.seeburger.com/fileadmin/com/pdf/Butler_Group_SEEBURGER_Technology_Audit.pdf

Regards,

Shweta

[Former Member]

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...

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

thanks

swarup

[Former Member]

Azhar,

If you develop your own custom adapter, you just need to deploy it on XI Server with the help of Visual Admin. May be your ITICS people help you in this.

BR,

Alok

[Former Member]

Hi,

There are alreay EDI adapters are available in the market.

Like seeburger etc.

If u wanted to convert the EDI then there are different ways:

1) using third party seeburger adapter

2) Conversion agent

3) stylus studio

For module development refer the below link which may help you.

Just refer the below link this will give u all details:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e21106cc-0c01-0010-db95-dbfc0ffd...

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e21106cc-0c01-0010-db95-dbfc0ffd...

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/96/f04142099eb76be10000000a155106/frameset.htm

/people/alessandro.guarneri/blog/2006/03/16/xi-mapping-module-for-afw

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/8b/895e407aa4c44ce10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

Thnx

Chirag

[Former Member]

Thanks a lot Chirag,Swarup and Alok for ur inputs...............