E-Sourcing web services

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have a question relating to E-Sourcing capability to publish and consume web services

a) Can we create and publish new web services on E-Sourcing system. Intention is to create and publish custom web services that would enable external applications to access the web services and fetch data from E-Sourcing system on a demand basis

b) Does E-Sourcing have the capability to consume web services published by external applications. Similar to the Contract Generation web service that is available as part of the E-Sourcing application.

Any pointers towards this would be very helpful.

Thanks,

Balaji

[vikram_shanmugasundaram]

Re: a) I believe itu2019s not possible to create and publish web service with E-Sourcing 5.1 and earlier versions. Supporting web service would require changes to the core E-Sourcing functionality and code.

Re: b) E-Sourcing can consume web services published by external applications. This could be done using the Integration APIu2019s available with E-Sourcing. You could use Axis or similar tools to build the stubs, develop the code, and deploy it as a custom jar. Once the custom jar is deployed, you could trigger it through E-Sourcing scheduled task or through a script.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Vikram

[tridip_chakraborthy]

Hi Vikram,

This was a great reply, that too from a Mentor like you.

This is a grey area where customers ask a lot of questions around.

Please also update us if the SAP ES 7.0 version that would be released in future would be SOA enabled as I understand that it has a portal business content provided and also the look and feel would be modeled with iViews instead of the asp pages.

Is our understanding correct?

Regards

Tridip

[vikram_shanmugasundaram]

Hi Tridip,

Re: web service support in ESO 7.0, you might want to reach out to SAP Solution Management who can provide information on product roadmap.

Re: UI Enhancements - ESO On-Demand wave 6 which is the latest release of ESO has a totally new UI. There are number of UI enhancements, including the same look and feel as other SAP solutions. ESO doesnu2019t use ASP. Itu2019s a java based application and uses XML, XSL, CSS, Javascript, Ajax for the UI.

Regards,

Vikram

[tridip_chakraborthy]

Hi Vikram,

Thx a lot for the clarification.

The new UI of ESO Wave 6, is it portal business content or a Representation of the Java pages with a NetWeaver Portal iView feel, request clarification.

Regards

Tridip