SOA Management

Use

Feature	Type of Change	Description
Standard Jobs for PI	Change	The following standard jobs are available for PI: SAP_SOA_ARCHIVE_PLAN Can replace SAP_BC_XMB_ARCHIVE SAP_SOA_DELETE_HISTORY Can replace SAP_BC_XMB_HIST_DELETE SAP_SOA_DELETE_MESSAGES Can replace SAP_BC_XMB_DELETE SAP_SOA_TABLE_SWITCH More information: Periodical Tasks
XML Validation	Change	In XML validation, automatic distribution of XML schema is used to replace manual schema provisioning. Previously, the XSD file had to be manually copied into a specific directory depending on where the validation was to be performed. Whenever a sender agreement, receiver agreement, or an integrated configuration with enabled XML validation is activated now, the corresponding XSD is sent to the runtime and stored in the persistent cache. After reactivating the sender agreements for already existing scenarios , they continue working More information: XML Validation
SOA Manager: New Roles and Authorization	Change	New roles and authorization objects are available for SOA Manager. More information: Roles and Authorizations SAP Note 1318883 (Introduction of new authorizations in Web Service Framework). You can also download the new roles from this SAP Note.
SOA Manager: Event Enabling	New	Operations for specially created event proxies can be service enabled to allow applications in a landscape to communicate with each other using business events. More information: Configuring a Consumer Proxy
SOA Manager: Fallback Configuration for Service Groups	New	If a failure occurs in a service group, the service connections will not be correctly configured and may fail. When a failure is identified, the configuration profile can be switched to a fallback configuration that you define. More information: Creating a Fallback Configuration
SOA Manager: Logical and Technical Receiver Determination	New	Logical receiver determination provides information about provider systems that enables a consumer application to decide which provider system to send a call to. You can configure routing rules to direct calls to a particular receiver. More information: Creating Routing Rules for Service Groups Technical receiver determination (TRD-API), which allows developers of web service consumer applications to dynamically instantiate consumer proxies at runtime. More information: Technical Receiver Determination API Logical receiver determination and technical receiver determination can be used in parallel to provide more information about which system is used.
SOA Manager: Migration Tools	New	To use new functionality in SOA Manager, you can migrate Web service configurations from earlier SAP NetWeaver releases to the latest SAP NetWeaver release. More information: Migrating Web Service Configurations
XML Validation	New	XML validation allows you to check the structure of an XI message payload. The structure check is based on saved data types. More information: XML Validation You use the XiHeaderValidationBean module to validate XI header information against the information from the communication channel. More information: Inserting the Header Validation Module in the Module Processor