Executing a Command in a Local Computer (not the app server).

[SantiMoreno]

Hi ABAPers.

Hope you could help me.

I need to execute a Java program via which is in a local computer (let's say my laptop) which, obviously, is not the application server. That's because such Java program must access to a serial port in that local computer to get certain values.

I've seen that for executing external commands I can use RFC destinations... can I set my local computer as a RFC destination (and how) to directly execute the command? Would there be any alternatives -no way with executing the command in the app server- to execute that Java command?

Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards.

Santiago.

[matt]

Do you have the possibility of amending the Java program?

[SantiMoreno]

In which way should I be able to amend it?

[matt]

If you can't amend it, then there's only one solution cl_gui_frontend_services=>execute, If you can, then you can use all kinds of connection technologies - it depends how secure you want things to be.

[SantiMoreno]

As said above, that's the solution we've decided since the other one brougth a security gap in our architecture.

Thanks for your helping.

Santiago.

[SantiMoreno]

Hi Again.

I've found an alternative to execute the program (but I don't know whether it's secure).

It consists on launching the command with cl_gui_frontend_services=>execute, passing java as the command and the rest of the calling parameters as a string in parameters.

Have any of you ever tried this?

Kind Regards.

Santy.

[rosenberg_eitan]

Hi,

There is also a way to use external commands I have used this approach here:

The benefit is that you can run it in back ground job.

Do you need to get data from the PC to SAP ?

Do a google using search operators:

site:scn.sap.com JCO

Can you modify the java program code ? do you know Java ?

Regards. 

[SantiMoreno]

Hi Eitan.

Answers to your question:

- Yes, some data read from the serial port got to be sent back to SAP.

- No, cannot program Java by myself but got a programmer with me.

Anyway, we've made some tests encapsulating the Java command (with all the parameters) in a .bat file at OS level, and it's working properly.

Kind Regards.

Santiago.

[rosenberg_eitan]

Hi,

Just curious....

How the data is getting into SAP ?

Ask your Java programmer to look into SAP JCO (Looks good.....)

regards. 

[SantiMoreno]

Just with a RFC call that populates one table... as simple as that...

in fact, we're using SAP Jco itself for invoking the RFC call.

Kind Regards,

Santiago.

[rosenberg_eitan]

Very nice !!!!.....