BAPI

[Former Member]

hi,

What is BAPI and what is the difference between BAPI and BDC?

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[Former Member]

Hi,

Refer i answered this question in other thread

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[gopi_narendra]

Hi

A BAPI is a method of a SAP Business Object. BAPI enables SAP and third party applications to interact and integrate

with each other at the Business Object / Process level.

Check this link to know more about BAPI.

http://www.sapgenie.com/abap/bapi/example.htm

http://sappoint.com/abap/

Batch Data Communication (BDC) is the oldest batch interfacing technique that SAP provided since the early versions of R/3. BDC is not a

typical integration tool, in the sense that, it can be only be used for uploading data into R/3 and so it is not bi-directional.

BDC works on the principle of simulating user input for transactional screen, via an ABAP program. Typically the input comes in the form

of a flat file. The ABAP program reads this file and formats the input data screen by screen into an internal table (BDCDATA). The

transaction is then started using this internal table as the input and executed in the background.

In ‘Call Transaction’, the transactions are triggered at the time of processing itself and so the ABAP program must do the error handling.

It can also be used for real-time interfaces and custom error handling & logging features. .

To know more about BDC,

check the link.

http://sappoint.com/abap/

Main differences are...

In case of bdc data transfer takes place from flat file into sap system ie the file existing in sap system to sap sytem

where is bapi's r remotly enabled function modules which are assigned to some business objects n used to transfer the data between different business partners who are using different systems other than sap.

not only that...

when you plan to upgrade your system version then bdc willnot support those upgradations where as bapi's will support.

Regards

Gopi