Types of Interfaces

[Former Member]

hi,

wat r the types of interfaces in ABAP?... and which is the best interface to tranfer data from legacy system to SAP?.. And also from SAP to SAP.

[Former Member]

Hello,

Generally interfaces are of file ,EDI-ALE or rfc object types.

File interfaces are used when data is transferred from non-sap system into sap-system required format.

EDI interfaces are used when data is transferred from legacy system in non-readable format(for SAP) & which is converted to EDI format by middleware & then brought into SAP.

ALE is used when data is tranferred between 2 SAP systems.

There are rfc related interfaces where some connectors can call RFC in SAP & load or extract data out of SAP.

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

[Former Member]

Hi

check the below links too may be helpful for you

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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/78/217da751ce11d189570000e829fbbd/content.htm

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapgenie/docs/ale_scenario_development_procedure.doc

/people/kevin.wilson2/blog/2006/11/13/ale-scenario-development-guide

http://searchsap.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid21_gci1230385,00.html

for the geneal stuff on ale/idoc check the below links

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapgenie/docs/ale_scenario_development_procedure.doc

For ALE -- IDoc's

http://www.sappoint.com/abap/ale.pdf

http://www.sappoint.com/abap/ale2.pdf

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapgenie/docs/ale_scenario_development_procedure.docs

-charitha

[Former Member]

Hi,

ALE/ IDOC

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/dc/6b835943d711d1893e0000e8323c4f/content.htm

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapgenie/docs/ale_scenario_development_procedure.doc

http://edocs.bea.com/elink/adapter/r3/userhtm/ale.htm#1008419

http://www.netweaverguru.com/EDI/HTML/IDocBook.htm

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapedi/index.htm

http://www.sappoint.com/abap/ale.pdf

http://www.sappoint.com/abap/ale2.pdf

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapedi/idoc_abap.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/0b/2a60bb507d11d18ee90000e8366fc2/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/78/217da751ce11d189570000e829fbbd/frameset.htm

http://www.allsaplinks.com/idoc_sample.html

http://www.sappoint.com/abap.html

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/dc/6b835943d711d1893e0000e8323c4f/content.htm

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapgenie/docs/ale_scenario_development_procedure.doc

http://edocs.bea.com/elink/adapter/r3/userhtm/ale.htm#1008419

http://www.netweaverguru.com/EDI/HTML/IDocBook.htm

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapedi/index.htm

http://www.allsaplinks.com/idoc_sample.html

ALE/ IDOC/ XML

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapgenie/docs/ale_scenario_development_procedure.doc

http://www.thespot4sap.com/Articles/SAP_XML_Business_Integration.asp

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm30/helpdata/en/72/0fe1385bed2815e10000000a114084/content.htm

IDOC Convertion

/people/kevin.wilson2/blog/2005/12/07/changing-fields-in-an-idoc-segment

Regards,

Priyanka.