WebSphere Adapter for SAP Software

Introduction to WebSphere Adapter for SAP Software

WebSphere® Adapter for SAP Software provides the means for clients (J2EE components) to send requests to the SAP server (for example, to update a customer record in an SAP table or to query data from that table) or to receive events from the server (for example, to be notified that a customer record has been updated).

Adapter for SAP Software provides three interfaces to interact with an SAP server:

The following figure shows how clients use outbound interfaces to send requests to 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 figure also shows how the inbound interface for ALE originates at the SAP application and is sent to one or more endpoints or to an event-recovery disk.

Figure 1. SAP inbound and outbound interfaces
An illustration showing the interfaces of the adapter.
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