XI requirements

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I am a Certified ABAP consultant working on a 4.6b support project.

I want to simultaneously upgrade my self to XI.

What are the requirements?

Is the implementation knowledge of ALE & IDocs must?

I have conceptual knowledge of them.

I have knowledge of Visual Basic, do I need to learn JAVA?

Our company has provided a sandbox system of ECC 6.0.

Is this useful to work with X? Does it require separate server?

Please, advice me.

Thanks,

Kal Chand

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi kal chand ,

XI is configuration like FILE 2 FILE , FILE 2 IDOC , FILE 2 JDBC , PROXY TO PROXY....

It takes the source message , converts into XML, sends it to target system.

U should be aware of ALE/IDOC concepts . If u know JAVA , good b'coz at certain times we can import JAVA functions to XI to meet certain requirements.

Knowledge of XML, XSLT, preferred.

XI is separate server.

The following websites contain PDF & PPT docs on XI which wil gain u confidence on XI:

SAPu2018s Exchange Infrastructure

http://www.omg.org/interop/presentations/2002/sinisa_zimek.pdf

SAP Exchange Infrastructure 3.0 Integrating Heterogeneous Systems with Ease

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/1ebea490-0201-0010-faad-a32...

SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/events/sdn-meets-l...

SAP Exchange Infrastructure for Developers ( This is an excellent website for free pdf book for XI)

http://www.sap-press.de/download/dateien/1191/sappress_exchange_infrastructure.pdf

Exchange Infrastructure : XI Transaction Codes

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/xi/xiTransactionCodes&

A Beginner's Guide to SAP XI Settings part I

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/73527b2c-0501-0010-5398-c4a...

A Beginner's Guide to SAP XI Settings part II

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/6bd6f69a-0701-0010-a88b-adb...

SAP XI AND SLD

http://www.sappro.com/downloads/nov06/XIandSLD.pdf

Exchange Infrastructure Learning Map

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/xi/learning+map&;

SAP Exchange Infrastructure eLearning Catalog(U wil get all downloads regarding XI starting from basics to end)

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/xi-elearning

All Articles on SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure(This website gives al articles on XI)

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/webcontent/uuid/f04b44aa-fe06-2a10-859e-82ad4...

Mastering SAP Netweaver XI - Programming( PDF Book for XI)

http://www.sap-hefte.de/download/dateien/1241/140_leseprobe.pdf

SAP XI Learning Guide

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

SAP Exchange Infrastructure 2.0

http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/sap/collateral/SunSAPWP_final.pdf

http://help.sap.com/bp_bpmv130/Documentation/Planning/TechnicalInfrasture.pdf

Process Integration with SAP Netweaver new features and functions

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/4042611d-04e5-2910-bd9d-f97627b1...

SAP NetWeaver Process Integration 7.1 u2013Overview

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/706005a3-3bd6-2910-91ae-a2016239...

End To End Process Integration Features in SP15 and higher incl. SAP NetWeaver 2004s

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/6a90d6aa-0b01-0010-8a83-cf0...

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/54f20a2e-0801-0010-f787-876...

http://www.english.bcc.com.pl/index.php?s=504&p=2

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/xi

http://tsr.strain.at/space/SAP+XI

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/xi

http://www.sapag.co.in/How-To-Guides-on-Portal.htm(interview questions for XI , EP)

http://www.sap-hefte.de/download/dateien/964/074_lesesprobe.pdf

http://www.sap-press.com/downloads/h982_sample_chapter.pdf

(file 2 http)

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/3d1ac590-0201-0010-4b90-f71... to netweaver)

http://www.english.bcc.com.pl/index.php?s=504&p=2#i2

(adapters)

http://nilkanthk.googlepages.com/XIQuestions.pdf

All Articles on Monitoring and Troubleshooting

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/webcontent/uuid/0067dcfa-5f28-2a10-5094-cf72b...

cheers!

gyanaraj

[Former Member]

Hi,

To come into XI if u have the knowledge in Java then it will be good.

U have the Abap knowledge its more then enough.

Please check some links on XI certification.

XI Certification

http://www.sapteched.com/india/reg/certificationExams2.htm

http://www.sap.com/services/education/certification/certificationtest.epx?context=FFC760B8923D16BB51...

https://websmp108.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/011000358700003595762004E

https://websmp108.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/011000358700000600992007E

Basics in XI please go through this links.

Regards,

Phani

[Former Member]

Hi,

a good starting point are these three blogs:

Java is useful but for the beginning not necessary (Most important are mappings and you can do them graphical or in ABAP too).

ECC is helpful as test system but XI should get installed on a own server.

Regards

Patrick

[Former Member]

Hi Kal Chand,

I too stand with same background, and now I have started working on XI projects, to be very honest we can manage XI requirement but not just saying its easy, if you have very strong Base Line of Middleware it will be really very helpful to make learn things faster.

I believe you need to go one by one scenerio's of XI trying to understand first architecture of XI and then work around with simple scenerios[File2File,File2Idoc,....]

Hope you have found lots of documents to go through XI.

If you need more go through these links also

Learning Map

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/xi/learning+map&;

SAP XI Solid Starter Materialu2026!

the below link will provide all the related links for step by step scenarios in XI

Thanks

Sudharshan

[Former Member]

Hi,

Its a good thought.....

you can go ahead and move your self towards XI with the knowledge you have on ABAP.

and Java knowledge is necessary for XI.so its better to gain some knowledge os JAVA.

and ALE IDOC knowledge is required.

in ECC 6 you may not be able to get full version of XI unless it is configured.....

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Thanks,

Madhu

Edited by: Mike Pokraka on Jul 24, 2008 12:47 PM

[Former Member]

hi kal chand

basic knowledge on ALE/IDOCS are important..so go thru it

ALSO

check the below blog

comparision betweeen xi and ale

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regards

kummari

Edited by: kummari on Jul 22, 2008 10:06 AM

Edited by: kummari on Jul 22, 2008 10:10 AM

Edited by: Mike Pokraka on Jul 24, 2008 12:46 PM