WebSphere Adapter for SAP Software

The ALE interface

The SAP ALE (Application Link Enabling) interface is part of the integration layer within the SAP Business Framework Architecture (BFA). BFA is a component-based architecture that enables business process integration and asynchronous data communication between two or more SAP systems or between SAP and external systems. Application systems are loosely coupled in an ALE integrated system and the data is exchanged asynchronously.

The adapter interacts with the ALE interface to support outbound and inbound processing by enabling the exchange of data in the form of business objects. The data exchange includes the following activities:

For inbound processing, the adapter is able to listen to and deliver events from multiple SAP systems.

Adapter for SAP Software is also able to deliver events to multiple SCA endpoints. You enable delivery to multiple endpoints by configuring multiple activation specifications.

Define a separate activation specification for each endpoint to which events need to be delivered, except when the adapter delivers events only to those endpoints that are active.


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