Business Component

Use

A business component represents an abstract unit for addressing the senders and receivers of messages. You can use a business component to group interfaces.

It is useful to use business components when configuring cross-company (B2B) scenarios. Usually, the interface descriptions of the business partners involved in the process are made publicly available. However, the system landscape of those involved is normally unknown, or only partly known, and cannot therefore be entered in the SLD (as a business system).

Prerequisites

When you create a business component you can

Define a communication party if you want to assign the business component to a party
If you want to define the business component independently of a party, leave the field for the party empty.

Features

In the Display/Edit Business Component editor you can display or edit the following information:

Sender/Receiver Tab Page

Here you can make specifications that specially refer to the communication component as a sender or receiver.

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Outbound/Inbound Interfaces	Enables you to assign interfaces for message exchange. To do so, in the Outbound Interfaces or Inbound Interfaces frame, add a new row (Insert Row Below Selection). Use the input help to assign the interfaces. To delete an assignment, select the relevant line and choose Delete Selected Lines.
Communication Channels	You can create communication channels and assign them to the communication component. To open a communication channel, select the relevant row and choose Open Object. To create a new communication channel for this communication component, choose Create New Object. To delete a communication channel, select the relevant line and choose Delete Object.

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Features

Outbound/Inbound Interfaces

Enables you to assign interfaces for message exchange.

To do so, in the Outbound Interfaces or Inbound Interfaces frame, add a new row (Insert Row Below Selection). Use the input help to assign the interfaces. To delete an assignment, select the relevant line and choose Delete Selected Lines.

Communication Channels

You can create communication channels and assign them to the communication component.

To open a communication channel, select the relevant row and choose Open Object.

To create a new communication channel for this communication component, choose Create New Object.

To delete a communication channel, select the relevant line and choose Delete Object.

Other Attributes Tab Page

This tab page shows whether the communication component is a fee-paying third-party communication component.

A third-party communication component is a communication component provided by an external business partner. The Third-Party Communication Component attribute is set by default for a business component.

The Third-Party Communication Component attribute is assigned to a business system if the underlying business system is classified as a Third-Party System in the System Landscape Directory (Third-Party Business System). If this is not the case, the business system is assigned the SAP Communication Component attribute.

If the communication component represents a BPM process, that is, it is used to send messages to BPM, select the option Business Process. It permits the message exchange between PI and BPM to be monitored.

To navigate, you have to flag the communication component as Business Process.

For more information about message processing between PI and BPM, see SAP Help Portal at Start of the navigation path SAP NetWeaver <Release> End of the navigation path Application HelpFunction Oriented ViewProcess OrchestrationMonitoring Messages Across PI and BPM in BPM Log Viewer.