Developing Data Archiving Solutions 

Use

The basic technology of data archiving is part of the SAP Net Weaver Application Server and is available in two versions, which offer you different options when developing a data archiving solution: 

·        ADK-based Data Archiving

·        XML-based Data Archiving

ADK-based Data Archiving

Most archiving objects are based on the Archive Development Kit (ADK). For XML-based data archiving you need XML archiving objects (see below). The ADK and XML Archive API both offer basic services and functions for the development and execution of archiving programs. For both, the Archive Administration is used to customize and execute data archiving. For a detailed description of the data archiving functions and how to use them, see the documentation, “Introduction to Data Archiving”.

SAP offers a wide range of standard archiving objects, which in most cases are sufficient to cover the archiving of application data in an SAP system. However, if you need additional archiving objects for ADK-based archiving, to archive data from customer-specific tables, for example, ADK offers you the option to develop your own archiving objects and programs. For more information see the Archive Develoment Kit documenation, "Developing Archiving Solutions".

XML-based Data Archiving

XML-based archiving mainly uses XML archiving objects, which are used by ABAP applications with XML interfaces.  In the case of JAVA applications, archiving sets are used.

Note that XML-based data archiving has not been released for customer-specific development. Therefore, documentation is not yet available for this function.

For more information on how to use XML-based data archiving and how it differs from ADK-based data archiving, see XML-based Data Archiving.