interface

[Former Member]

Hi

What is interface? How many types of interfaces are there?

In an implementation project, how is it used?

I want detailed informations with good clarification.

[Former Member]

Have a look at this link.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/22/042427488911d189490000e829fbbd/content.htm

Other type of Interfaces are

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/ec/d9ab291b0b11d295400000e8353423/content.htm

SAP Exchange Infrastructure messages are based on XML. How can an application send a message of this type to a receiver? The idea is similar to a Remote Function Call (RFC): Communication with another system is encapsulated in an interface; the parameters of this interface are converted into a message. However, the significant difference between SAP XI and RFCs is that former always requires two interfaces for communication: One on the sender side and one on the receiver side. This has the advantage that the sender and receiver interfaces do not need to match exactly (loose coupling).

The following graphic illustrates schematically how a message is sent to a receiver using a sender interface:

heck the below sap help link.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/22/042427488911d189490000e829fbbd/content.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/c9/5472fc787f11d194c90000e8353423/content.htm

TYPES are

Inbound & Outbound Interfaces.

Outbound Interfaces - Retrieving data from SAP and sending to other systems.

Inbound Interfaces - Sending data from other system to SAP.

Example

Outbound interface is used to send IDocs to the ALE server.

Inbound interface is used to Analyse the received Idoc.

Check this link.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/cd/0b733cb7d61952e10000000a11405a/content.htm

[Former Member]

Hi manas

Bapi, ALE are the interfaces used to tranfer data acrross systems. ie if u want to transfer data bw servers , interfaces r used. There is no specific number for interfaces.It s all depending upon the situations. IN my project , i am using more than 20 BAPI s .

<b>nothing great in interface.</b>

regards

karthik

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