XI

[Former Member]

wat is XI?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

It is a middle ware tool.

Sender and Receiver systems are different(means one is R/3 other is non R/3) then they may not understand the

data because the formats are different, so to avoid this by using XI we can take the sender data and mapped to the

receiver data(this data can understandable by receiver system), if we need we do the some changes in XI also.

suppose we got the P.O from customer(customer is not using the SAP) he sends data from other format like file

or EDI or some thing, if we send directly to that data to R/3 it can't understand so in the middle(XI) we map the

sender fields(file format or edi format) to the corresponding IDoc fields and send to the R/3 system then SAP can

understand.

If you know the core java then it is useful to XI, why java means XI has some predefined functions, that

may not suite to our requirements some times at that time we write some user defined functions(UDF) by using java

we can write

Why we use XI :

1. right now you are using point to point connection which is not the best way.

2. XI is a middleware tool (you can send message to many apdaters:

SOAP, mail, file/ftp ) by XML messages .

3. Error handling and Sloving the error easrier.

4.Integrate with SAP and Non SAP applications..........

5.XI has it's own Monitoring to track the incoming and outgoing messages

6.Synchronous and Asynchronous communication

7.Reusable components

8.Reducing cost of development work in future

9.End to End montoring the messages in SAP XI is great

10.Maintance is easeir .

11.The biggest Advantage of XI is that it supports web services.

12.It has the feature of business process management(BPM) which enables us to impliment the

business logic.

[Former Member]

HI

Middleware Tool: A Middleware solution that provides out of the box integration scenarios eliminates the need to hard code point to point connections between applications or businesses.

Middleware tools:

1.SAP Exchange Infrastructure

2.Tibco

3.BizTalk

4.Web methods

5.IBM MQSeries/WebSphere

6.See Beyond

7.Mercator

8.Oracle fusion

9.Vitria

etc

XI:

XI is well suited for connecting SAP systems with each other and with non-SAP. SAP XI provides an integrated workflow engine that allows defining adapters to non-XML protocols and mappings to convert data content from source to target format.

XI comes handy particularly incase of SAP - Non SAP interfaces where you can import standard integration content. Also XI has got sophisticated open standard adapter framework which is very easy to implement and custom logic can be implemented using Adapter module programming.

Advantages

u2022Monitoring is better than any other middleware product. It offers exhaustive monitoring features like message, performance, component monitoring etc, all of which can be used to track and rectify the errors. It follows a hub and spoke model.

u2022When you need to integrate with an SAP system XI has an advantage in supporting various SAP components and so on.

u2022Process functionalities inside XI to modify content in the communication channel on own defined rules for business purposes.

u2022Mappings and adapters are good as comparable with any other middleware product.

u2022Synchronous & Asynchronous communication is possible.

cheers

reward points if found useful

[Former Member]

Hi,

Check the following to know what XI is

/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

Thanks,

Vijaya.

[former_member556603]

Hi,

I would like to tell something about XI.

SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI) enables you to implement cross-system processes. It enables you to connect systems from different vendors (non-SAP and SAP) in different versions and implemented in different programming languages (Java, ABAP, and so on) to each other. SAP Exchange Infrastructure is based on an open architecture, uses open standards (in particular those from the XML and Java environments) and offers those services that are essential in a heterogeneous and complex system landscape:

SAP XI supports the following methods of communication with the Integration Server:

● Direct communication using proxies, which you generate in the application systems using a description in WSDL (Web Service Description Language).

● Communication using adapters. In this case, you create interfaces for message exchange in the application system, or use existing interfaces.

Thanks,

Satya

[Former Member]

Hi,

Search on SDN before posting question:

XI is middleware tool which is used to connect SAP and NON SAP systems.

SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI) enables you to implement cross-system processes. It enables you to connect systems from different vendors (non-SAP and SAP) in different versions and implemented in different programming languages (Java, ABAP, and so on) to each other. SAP Exchange Infrastructure is based on an open architecture, uses open standards (in particular those from the XML and Java environments) and offers those services that are essential in a heterogeneous and complex system landscape:

● Modeling and design of messages, transformations, and cross-component integration processes

● Configuration options for managing collaborative processes and message flow

● Runtime for message and process management

● Adapter Engine for integrating heterogeneous system components

● Central monitoring for monitoring message flow and processes

SAP XI supports internal company scenarios and cross-company scenarios.

XI has below components:

Design:

Configuration

RWB

SLD

refer the blow link more more details.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/c8/98e7d5c1620642973565ea3dd319d1/frameset.htm

chirag