Repository Services Component (BC-FES-AIT) 

Purpose

The Repository Services Component provides read access to SAP R/3 business object and RFC function module metadata to external programs and applications.

The Repository Services Component provides a standard access interface to R/3 objects and encapsulates the mechanism required to physically access the underlying R/3 system and database.

Implementation Considerations

You can use the Repository Services component in programs that follow the Microsoft Component Object Model (COM).

Integration

The Repository Services component allows you to create a Repository Services object on a client computer, which holds the metadata of an R/3 business object or a function module.

The following diagram illustrates, as an example, a Repository Services object representing a SAP business object.

 

The details of the metadata of the SAP business object or of the RFC function module are contained in a hierarchy of objects under the Repository Services object.

Features

The Repository Services component allows you read SAP business object and SAP function module metadata.

The Repository Services component allows you to access this metadata using a live connection to an R/3 system. We refer to this as working online.

The Repository Services component also allows you to save metadata in a local repository database. This enables access to the metadata offline, that is, without a connection to the R/3 system.