With WebSphere Adapter for SAP Software, you can send requests to the SAP server (for example, you can update a customer record in an SAP table or query data from that table) or you can receive events from the server (for example, you can be notified that a customer record has been updated).
The following illustration shows the outbound interfaces through which clients make requests of SAP applications. The adapter provides request and response interfaces for BAPI and SQI. The request originates at the client, and the request is returned by the SAP application. For the ALE interface, the outbound request is one-way. The inbound interface for ALE originates at the SAP application and is sent to one or more endpoints or to an event-recovery disk.
SAP inbound and outbound interfaces
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