bapi vs lsmw

[Former Member]

What is diff b/w bapi vs lsmw ?

What is diff b/w bapi vs bdc ?

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Edited by: Rob Burbank on May 15, 2009 1:21 PM

[Former Member]

Hi,

BAPI is nothing but remote function module and can be called from the same sytem or different sytem..

or different applciation like EP(enterprise portal or XI)..

Bapi(tables are updated using form routines) is a alternative of BDC(tables are using Screens) ..

BDC- is nothinf but Batch data communication, and it is done through shdb transaction and screen

recording and ok_codes and data is updated to tables using screen and ok_codes..

LSMW--is a local and you can map fields to screen fields in transacion and update the table using

lsmw and generally these can be done manually by function people..

Regards,

Prabhudas

[Former Member]

bapi : its very long proceess you need to write lot of code for bapi.like Internal table declarations and split the file and filed mapping.

LSWM : not requrired any code , just create the strcture and filed mapping..

through LSMW also you can use BAPI and IDOC.

BDC: its very difficult to code and recording and file spliting....