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You can configure scenarios in such a way that communication between sender and receiver system is brokered by the Advanced Adapter Engine.

Recommendation Recommendation

You can normally achieve a higher level of performance by using the Advanced Adapter Engine for local message processing than by using the Integration Server.

End of the recommendation.

The following show the typical steps that you have to execute to configure local message processing on the Advanced Adapter Engine.

The Advanced Adapter Engine supports elementary communication scenarios in which the names of the message receivers are already defined at the time of configuration and whose message processing only requires a simple mapping (multiplicity 1:1).

The central configuration object for scenarios of this type is the Integrated Configuration.

With integrated configuration, you can configure scenarios in which the Advanced Adapter Engine sends the message to multiple receivers. Note the following restrictions when using integrated configuration:

  • You cannot configure any dynamic receiver determinations where the name of the receiver component is only determined at runtime.

  • You cannot use any integration processes as communication components.

  • You cannot configure any mapping-based message splits.

In addition to this there is the restriction that you can only use integrated configuration to configure communication scenarios where the message is only to be transferred within an Adapter Engine from a sender to a receiver adapter.

Caution Caution

Integrated configuration is not supported when using communication channels with the following adapter types:

  • IDoc

  • XI

  • HTTP

  • RNIF

  • CIDX

  • WS

End of the caution.

You can only set up other scenarios if you use the Integration Server.

More information: Advanced Adapter Engine

You can find an overview of the relevant configuration objects under Configuration Objects (Advanced Adapter Engine).

Procedure

  1. Firstly, specify which entities appear as the sender and receiver of messages and provide the necessary communication channels.

    More information: Define Collaboration Profile

  2. To specify the local processing of the message on the Advanced Adapter Engine, define an integrated configuration.

    More information: Defining the Integrated Configuration

    Note Note

    At this time it is not possible to test the configuration settings for the processing of the message on the Advanced Adapter Engine (integrated configuration) with the test tools in the Integration Directory.

    End of the note.

  3. You can make it easier for a business partner (sender) to call the Advanced Adapter Engine by publishing the integrated configuration in the Services Registry. The business partner can then access the integrated configuration in the form of a WSDL file in the Services Registry, before the firewall. The WSDL description contains all the relevant configuration data from the integrated configuration as well as the assigned communication channel, which are required to call the Advanced Adapter Engine.

    More information: Publishing Integrated Configurations to the Services Registry