How to Learn XI

Former Member · ‎03-20-2008

Hi all,

I am having exp in java/j2ee, willing to learn XI,

Can any one help me how to proceed and refering th sites

thanks and regards

Pandu .

Former Member · ‎03-20-2008

http://searchsap.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid21_gci1008087,00.html

former_member238007 · ‎03-20-2008

Hi Pandu,

Learning XI ..

follow the steps which i give u can clearly understand,

Just when u see the architecture of XI u can clearly understood that everything was interdependent in XI,

Why WebAS is used in the sense the integration builder which is present in the Netweaver will basically run in the explorer, which depends on the java stack, so a platform is required which is used to support both ABAP as well as JAVA, so a unique architecture or we can say platform was introduced to build a system which is nothing but WebAS, it may be WebAS JAVA or WebAS ABAP.

SLD can be classified into 2 as

1. Software Catalog

2. System Catalog

Software catalog consists with Products and Software Components.

If u know Ms-Office we can understand better, Ms-Office is an Product in which Ms-Word and Ms-Excel and others are the components of the Ms-Office product in similar any object created in XI should store under any software component so we require a Software Component and at the same time this Software Components should be under Products, so we are creating products the hierarchy will be like this for software catalog

PRODUCTS -

>>> SOFTWARE COMPONENTS -

>> NAMESPACES CREATED DURING DESIGN -

> OBJECTS

System Catalog consists with Techinal System and Business System

Technical System is the physical entity but where as the Business System is the logical system of the Technical System..

i.e an n number of business systems are created for a singel Technical system.

Basically while developing the scenarios it is difficult to share the technical system so we develop instance of the technical system i,e a logical system.

XI Can be Categorized into 3 phases..

Design (IR), Configuration (ID), and Runtime (RWB)

The implementation of a collaborative process is split into three phases:

• During the design phase, you document the entire collaborative process and determine which interfaces are required. You can either define new system-independent interfaces to implement at a later point in time (outside-in development) or work with functions that already exist in the systems (inside-out development). In this phase you design the logical collaborative process by describing in a specific role the message exchange between the application components. This description is still not specific to any particular installed system (see also: Design Time).

• During the configuration phase, you configure your collaborative process for a specific system landscape. For example, you define conditions for the message flow and select design objects that meet your requirements. (See also: Configuration Time)

• The configuration data is evaluated at runtime and controls communication. You can monitor the message flow by using a central monitoring.

IR -- DESIGN

You basically deal with MESSAGE INTERFACE, MESSAGE TYPES, DATA TYPES, FAULT MESSAGE INTERFACE, MAPPING PROGRAM, INTERFACE MAPPING, EXTERNAL DEFINITIONS, INTEGRATION SCENARIOS, ADAPTER METADATA, IMPORTED OBJECTS etc...

ID -- CONFIGURATION

Regarding to the Integration Directory..

First according to the scenario u have to decide whether to use a party, service without party in which it contains business system, business service , business scenario..

The creation of Objects will be like this ...

*Communication Party or Service

Communication Channel

Receiver Determination

Interface Determaination

Sender Agreement

Receiver Agreement*

Business scenario is used when a scenario is developed using BPM's

Based on your needs, you can select from the following service types:

Business System: Address a particular business system as the sender or receiver of messages.

A business system is an actual application system in a system landscape. A business system

(service) comprises information about the inbound and outbound interfaces and the software

component versions of the business system. The business system services are used when

configuring internal company processes.

Business Service: Address an abstract business entity as the sender or receiver of messages.

Using a business service, you can define the technical or business subunits of the companies

involved and then assign them the relevant interfaces. The business services are used when

configuring cross-company processes.

Business Process or Integration Process Service: Address an integration process as the sender or receiver of messages.

Prerequisites

The business system must be entered in the SLD.

A communication party has been created.

1Create Business System as Service with Party

Procedure

1. In the Configuration: Integration Builder, navigate to Objects tab.

2. Expand Party.

3. Right-click on Business System and choose Assign Business System.

4. In Business System Wizard, skip the step 1 Introduction by choosing Continue.

5. In step 2 Assign Party, for example, enter Buyer.

6. In step 3, select systems from the list that you want to define as the business system

service.

7. Choose Finish.

Create Business Service as Service with Party

Procedure

1. In the Configuration: Integration Builder, navigate to Objects tab.

2. Expand Party.

3. Right-click on Business Service and choose New.

4. In the Create Object Wizard, choose a communication party. For example, select

Seller.

5. Enter a service name, for example, PCK_Service.

6. Enter a description for the service.

7. Choose Create and Save.

After Creating the Systems u need to choose the Adapter based on the scenario.. we call this as communication channel, and we shuld configure the communication channel to fetch the file from the source and to drop the files to the target directory..

Then it should follow with Logical Routing and Collaboration Agreements..

Logical Routing consists with Receiver Determination and Interface Determination

Collaboration Agreements consists with Sender Agreement and Receiver Agreement..

In Receiver Determination u have to specift the what are all the receivers that are going to receive the message and u have a provision of delivering the message based on the payload by using an option of condition editor.

In Interface determination u will be specifying the Interface mapping which was developed in the design in between Outbound and Inbound Interfaces

In Sender agreement we give the communication channel which is developed in the sender side w.r.t the business system/service.

In Receiver agreement we give the communication channel which is developed in the receiver side w.r.t the business system/service.

RWB--

For tracking Errors we use this, in the abap stack also we can track the errors by loging into SXMB_MONI tcode.

regarding additional informatioin follow this links..

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>>>>Following are the links to weblogs which will help to develop the

basic scenarios.

/people/prateek.shah/blog/2005/06/08/introduction-to-idoc-xi-file-scenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starters - IDoc to File

/people/ravikumar.allampallam/blog/2005/03/14/abap-proxies-in-xiclient-proxy - ABAP Proxy to File

/people/sap.user72/blog/2005/06/01/file-to-jdbc-adapter-using-sap-xi-30 - File to JDBC

/people/prateek.shah/blog/2005/06/14/file-to-r3-via-abap-proxy - File to ABAP Proxy

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/02/introduction-to-simplefile-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart1 - File to File Part 1

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/03/introduction-to-simple-file-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart2 - File to File Part 2

/people/ravikumar.allampallam/blog/2005/06/24/convert-any-flat-file-to-any-idoc-java-mapping - Any flat file to any Idoc

/people/arpit.seth/blog/2005/06/27/rfc-scenario-using-bpm--starter-kit - File to RFC

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/1685 [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] - File to Mail

/people/jayakrishnan.nair/blog/2005/06/20/dynamic-file-name-using-xi-30-sp12-part--i - Dynamic File Name Part 1

/people/jayakrishnan.nair/blog/2005/06/28/dynamic-file-namexslt-mapping-with-java-enhancement-using-xi-30-sp12-part-ii - Dynamic File Name Part 2

/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/03/07/mail-adapter-xi--how-to-implement-dynamic-mail-address - Dynamic Mail Address

/people/siva.maranani/blog/2005/05/25/understanding-message-flow-in-xi - Message Flow in XI

/people/krishna.moorthyp/blog/2005/06/09/walkthrough-with-bpm - Walk through BPM

/people/siva.maranani/blog/2005/05/22/schedule-your-bpm - Schedule BPM

/people/sriram.vasudevan3/blog/2005/01/11/demonstrating-use-of-synchronous-asynchronous-bridge-to-integrate-synchronous-and-asynchronous-systems-using-ccbpm-in-sap-xi - Use of Synch - Asynch bridge in

ccBPM

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/1403 [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] - Use of Synch - Asynch bridge in

ccBPM

/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/08/22/xi-maintain-rfc-destinations-centrally - Maintain RFC destination centrally

/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2005/08/18/triggering-e-mails-to-shared-folders-of-sap-is-u - Triggering Email from folder

/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2005/08/17/outbound-idocs--work-around-using-party - Handling different partners for IDoc

/people/siva.maranani/blog/2005/08/27/modeling-integration-scenario146s-in-xi - Modeling Integration Scenario in XI

/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/08/25/xi-sending-a-message-without-the-use-of-an-adapter-not-possible - Testing of integration process

/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/05/25/xi-how-to-add-authorizations-to-repository-objects - Authorization in XI

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/58/d22940cbf2195de10000000a1550b0/content.htm -

Authorization in XI

/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/09/09/xi-alerts--step-by-step - Alert Configuration

/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/09/09/xi-alerts--troubleshooting-guide - Trouble shoot alert config

/people/sameer.shadab/blog/2005/09/21/executing-unix-shell-script-using-operating-system-command-in-xi - Call UNIX Shell Script

/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2005/11/02/overview-of-transition-from-dev-to-qa-in-xi - Transport in XI

/people/r.eijpe/blog/2005/11/04/using-abap-xslt-extensions-for-xi-mapping - Using ABAP XSLT Extensions for XI

Mapping

/people/prasad.ulagappan2/blog/2005/06/07/mail-adapter-scenarios-150-sap-exchange-infrastructure - Mail Adaptor options

/people/pooja.pandey/blog/2005/07/27/idocs-multiple-types-collection-in-bpm - Collection of IDoc to Single File

/people/sap.user72/blog/2005/11/17/xi-controlling-access-to-sensitive-interfaces - Controlling access to Sensitive

Interfaces

/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/11/10/xi-the-same-filename-from-a-sender-to-a-receiver-file-adapter--sp14 - The same filename from a sender to a

receiver file adapter -

SP14

/people/prasad.illapani/blog/2005/11/14/payload-based-message-search-in-xi30-using-trex-engine - Payload Based Message Search in

XI30 using Trex Engine

/people/sap.user72/blog/2005/11/24/xi-configuring-ccms-monitoring-for-xi-part-i - XI : Configuring CCMS Monitoring

for XI- Part I

/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/11/23/xi-html-e-mails-from-the-receiver-mail-adapter - XI: HTML e-mails from the receiver

mail adapter

/people/sap.user72/blog/2005/11/22/xi-faqs-provided-by-sap-updated - XI : FAQ's Provided by SAP

/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/25/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-i

/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/26/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-ii

/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/27/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-iii

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/80/8e3841e26cef23e10000000a155106/frameset.htm

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/developerareas/xi?rid=/webcontent/uuid/a680445e-0501-0010-1c94- [original link is broken]

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regards,

Kishore..

Former Member · ‎03-20-2008

Hi Pandu Ranga Rao,

Welcome to Integration World of XI..,

Check that blogs of Sravya Talanki about XI:

/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/25/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-i Aspirant to learn SAP XI...You won the Jackpot if you read this!-Part I (Sravya Talanki)

/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/26/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-ii Aspirant to learn SAP XI...You won the Jackpot if you read this!-Part II (Sravya Talanki)

/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/27/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-iii Aspirant to learn SAP XI...You won the Jackpot if you read this!-Part III (

Sravya Talanki)

These weblogs will guide you how to move to forward.

Cheers,

Veera

Former Member · ‎03-20-2008

hai

if you have PC then first of all install xi in that with higher service packs and then start working on it as the links provided.....i think it is the better way..............

"practice makes the man perfect"

Former Member · ‎03-20-2008

Hi,

Welcome to XI, but before posting queries please refer to the earlier blogs/ forms for materials,

refer these links and blog in it to gain knowledge of SAP XI.

/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/27/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-iii

/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/26/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-ii

/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/25/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-i

What is XI?

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/14/80243b4a66ae0ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

What is IR and ID?

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/61/fec608bc27654daadb20c1e6da7dd1/content.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/b9/64663c7a6c2545ae292fb26d8c33c4/content.htm

Runtime

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/2e/278a8363b5ac4483dc1efc382e51df/content.htm

Good Blog for new to XI:

/people/sap.user72/blog/2005/12/22/new-to-xi

XI –Starter

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/e1/8e51341a06084de10000009b38f83b/frameset.htm

SAP XI - Where to Find Information

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/xi/sap%20xi%20-%20...

All the information you need in XI :

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/0f/80243b4a66ae0ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

Understand the Architecture of XI

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/14/80243b4a66ae0ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

You can also go through the url for Elearning :

https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/elearning.sdn

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/sdnpilot/elearning

Following is the link for 'how to guides', A step by step guide to create scenarios:

https://websmp201.sap-ag.de/nw-howtoguides

Configuration of Adapters

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

One of the most powerful feature of XI, Business Process Management:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/3c/831620a4f1044dba38b370f77835cc/frameset.htm

How the messages are delivered through XI:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/17/50d440e14f8431e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

Few blogs:

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/02/introduction-to-simplefile-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart1

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/03/introduction-to-simple-file-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart2

Regards,

Nithiyanandam

Former Member · ‎03-20-2008

Hi,

Check these

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/80/8e3841e26cef23e10000000a155106/frameset.htm

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/developerareas/xi?rid=/webcontent/uuid/a680445e-0501-0010-1c94- [original link is broken]

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This might help you

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/14/80243b4a66ae0ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

Further, this thread deals with everything that is needed for a starter on XI. Do check them out,

/message/527697#527697 [original link is broken]

And after you are done with the documentation probably you can go through this scenario,

Also check the following threads which might help you a little more,

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/13926f23-0a01-0010-149cc117...

/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/25/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-i

/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/26/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-ii

/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/27/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-iii

and once you are through ...follow the following links to weblogs which explain all the basic scenarios

in XI

Following are the links to weblogs which will help to develop the basic scenarios.