Calling servlet through RFC Function Module ?

[sivaganesh_krishnan]

hi everyone ,

Is it possible to call a servlet file from local system or file stored in sap and execute through the browser ? Could you please provide some ideas on how to carry out this .

Regards,

Sivaganesh

[Katan]

Hi Sivaganesh,

Normally your servlet wil be hosted on apache tomcat server.  If such a server were accessible by the SAP system the RFC will be hosted on, then you could create a HTTP request in your RFC enabled FM to call and execute your servlet.

Check out the following SAP Help link that shows you how to excute a HTTP request.  You can create new request object host or by HTTP destination in SM59.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/1f/93163f9959a808e10000000a114084/content.htm

Hope that helps you out.

Katan

[sivaganesh_krishnan]

hi katan,

Thanks for your reply ,

Consider that i have already created a RFC which is already used as web service now i just want to call the same RFC through servlet url in SAP.

and what exactly should i do in sm59 ?

Regards,

Sivaganesh

[Katan]

Hi Sivaganesh,

Ah.  I misunderstood your requirement. 

If you have already created the RFC as a Web Service, then surely it is possible for you to execute the Web Service from your Servlet. 

I'm not totally clear on your architecture, but you can call a Web Service from Java by following this tutorial. 

Creating a Simple Web Service and Client with JAX-WS - The Java EE 5 Tutorial

If your Servlet is hosted on NW Java..take a look at this

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73/helpdata/en/4b/96e16c4d8e584de10000000a42189c/content.htm

[sivaganesh_krishnan]

hi katan,

I am not using NW java , we are using SAP NW. I am trying to create a web service for servlets in SAP.

As i am new in creating Web service for servlets , i tend to ask more questions So please do help me out, Thanks .!!!

Regards,

Sivaganesh

[Katan]

Hi Sivaganesh,

I'm still not totally clear what you are trying to achieve. 

Are you trying to create a Web Service from your SAP ABAP NW system based on an existing FM? 

Thanks,

Katan

[sivaganesh_krishnan]

Thank u so much katan patel .. Actually i was also bit confused ... You cleared my doudt very well thank you ..

My actual scenario was that i wanted to get the changed values in my RFC and i should update other Server using servlets.

Regards,

Sivaganesh