Calling an external Webservice from R/3

[AnnaWindisch]

Hi all,

I´m new to Webservices and XI and now I´ve got some questions. I´ve read a lot of Threads and Weblogs but I´m still facing some problems:

I need to call a non-SAP-Webservice (it´s the Webservice API to Adobe´s Elements Server) from R/3. The Elements Server shall be installed on an own server but for testing I run it on my local machine.

Now (some of) my questions:

- Do I need a RFC (I think so)? How does it have to be configured?

- Do I need a Receiver SOAP Adapter?

- How can I import the WSDL-file?

- How can I access the Integration Repository?

It would be great if someone was able to give me something like a step-by-step-guidance!

Any help would be appreciated.

Kind regards,

Anna

[MichalKrawczyk]

Hi Anna,

>>>- Do I need a RFC (I think so)? How does it have to be configured?

you may use RFC:

/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/03/29/configuring-the-sender-rfc-adapter--step-by-step

>>>>- How can I import the WSDL-file?

open integration repository:

- your software component

- interface objects

- external definitions

>>>- Do I need a Receiver SOAP Adapter?

yes:

/people/siva.maranani/blog/2005/09/03/invoke-webservices-using-sapxi

>>>- How can I access the Integration Repository?

http://xiservername:j2eeport/rep

Regards,

michal

[AnnaWindisch]

Hi Michal,

thanks for your answer!

Unfortunately I found out that I don´t have access to our XI-server. So now I´m trying to call the webservice via https...

But I´m not sure if that is possible at all. I´m facing the problem that the proxy-generation fails. It seems like the provided WSDL-file doesn´t have the right form.

Do you have any hints regarding this problem?

Thanks in advance and kind regards,

Anna

Message was edited by: Anna Holtmann