WebSphere Adapter for SAP Software

Technical overview of Adapter for SAP Software

IBM® WebSphere® Adapter for SAP Software connects to SAP systems running on SAP Web application servers. The adapter supports the Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI) for outbound processing, Application Link Enabling (ALE) for both outbound and inbound processing, and the SAP Query Interface (SQI) for outbound processing. You set up the adapter to perform outbound and inbound processing by using enterprise service discovery to generate business objects based on the services it discovers on the SAP server.

The adapter uses the SAP Java™ Connector (SAP JCo) API to communicate with SAP applications, as shown in the following illustration.

Figure 1. How the adapter connects J2EE components with SAP applications
An illustration showing that a J2EE component connects to an SAP application through the use of the adapter. The adapter uses the SAP Jco interface to communicate with an SAP application.

Adapter for SAP Software supports WebSphere Application Server-managed deployment only. The adapter does not support a non-managed environment.

WebSphere Adapter for SAP Software is packaged and delivered as two RAR files:

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