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In the Integration Directory you configure a business process that you have modeled and specified in the ES Repository. This means the following: You set up the business process for a specific system landscape. Here you specify the components that communicate with each other (usually business systems) and other details of the communication. These other details can include, for example, routing rules, which determine the receiver a message in a process is to be forwarded to, or the configuration settings of the adapter used for the connection of non-SAP protocols or systems.

Whilst you define the basic process flow in the ES Repository (at design time), that is the communication participants that communicate with each other and the interfaces, data structures, and mapping for exchanging data, independently from the system landscape, in the Integration Directory (at configuration time) you determine:

  • Which system landscape is behind the communication participants

  • How messages are exchanged within this system landscape (routing)

  • What mappings are used

  • What technical details are valid for communication (adapter configuration)

In addition to this you can, for example, further specify the configuration by defining specific security settings for exchanging messages.

All configuration data is structured and organized in the Integration Directory in the form of configuration objects.

Integration Directory for Different Installation Options

The procedures for configuration and for selecting the available configuration objects depend on the implemented installation option.

Therefore, choose one of the following sections as your documentation starting point:

Note Note

The Integration Directory (Dual-Stack and AEX) area contains all chapters that apply to both the dual-stack installation and the Advanced Adapter Engine Extended. As a good start we recommend both of the document entries specified above that link to the valid documentation areas.

End of the note.

For more information about the installation options for SAP NetWeaver PI, see SAP Library under   SAP NetWeaver Process Integration   Concepts   Installation Options  .

Result

All the information that you enter in the Integration Directory during configuration is available in the runtime caches for processing messages at runtime.

For more information about the runtime caches, see SAP Library under   SAP NetWeaver Process Integration   Concepts   Phases of an Integration Project   Runtime   Runtime Caches  .