Adapters (Advanced Adapter Engine)

Adapter Types

• The IDoc adapter (AAE) integrates existing SAP components with the Advanced Adapter Engine. It converts XML and HTTP-based documents to IDocs, and the other way around. This enables you to integrate your existing SAP infrastructure with the SAP infrastructure based on system integration and the exchange of XML messages.

• The HTTP adapter (AAE) gives application systems the option of communicating with the Advanced Adapter Engine and exchanging business data in a simple format, using an HTTP connection.

• The Advanced Adapter Engine provides you with various adapters that you can use to connect external systems to your Advanced Adapter Engine. You can use these adapters to convert XML and HTTP-based messages to the specific protocols and formats of the respective external systems and the other way around.

  It is also possible to configure a message exchange without the involvement of the Integration Engine for adapters of the Advanced Adapter Engine (apart from the RNIF and CIDX adapters).

  • You can specify generic modules for adapters in the Adapter Engine in the module processor. These modules give the adapters additional functions. SAP provides modules for integrating in the adapters of the Adapter Engine.

  • For notes on the development of adapters and modules, see: Developing Adapters and Modules .

• In addition to the Adapter Engine, the Adapter Engine (Java SE) is still available.

The following tables list the available adapters provided by SAP and summarize key attributes.

Adapters of the Advanced Adapter Engine