ABAP Proxy Runtime

You can use the ABAP proxy runtime for the following scenarios:

• You want to exchange messages with the Integration Server using ABAP proxies that are based on the XI message protocol. To send a message to the Integration Server, use a consumer proxy. To provide a service on the AS ABAP that can be addressed by messages from the Integration Server, use a provider proxy.
• You want to exchange Web Server messages based on WS-RM with the Integration Server.

  More information: Configuring the Communication Channel with Adapter Type WS .

• You want to provide or consume Web services on the AS ABAP without the involvement of SAP NetWeaver PI.

  More information: Creating and Configuring a Service Provider and Service Consumer

You generate proxies from an interface description in WSDL (Web Service Description Language) by using ABAP proxy generation. Before you generate a proxy, you can determine whether this description is to be loaded from the ES Repository, from a local file, from a URL, or from a Registry.

• With the XI message protocol you can exchange messages using the Integration Server. The further chapters refer to communication based on the XI message protocol.
• The Integration Server also provides the WS protocol whereby you can configure Web service communication. You configure the Web service message exchange centrally in the Integration Directory. In this way you can define if the message is to be exchanged directly between the two application systems at runtime or if communication is to run using the Integration Server.
• You can configure Web services in AS ABAP.