Using External Services
Use
In your composite application, you can use remote function calls (RFC) including BAPIs or Web services to access data from an external source such as SAP Systems or any system that supports the industry Web services standard.
Procedure
1. Import an RFC or a Web service.
You can use the Search Console to find and directly drag and drop into your project the required external services. For more information about the search capabilities you can use in the Search Console, see Browsing Services in Search Console.
For more information about the direct project wizards you can use, see Importing RFC Modules and Importing Web Services.
2. Integrate the service in your application.
For more information, see Mapping Service Operations and Rules for Service Mapping.
3. Edit the external service.
4. (Optional) Reimport the service.
Once you have imported a service in your composite application, for some reason you may change the service itself. No matter if you use an external tool or the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio for such a change, if you want this changes to affect your composite, you have to import the service again in your model.
There are several steps you need to take to ensure correct reimport of the modified service. For more information, see Reimporting External Services.
5. (Optional) Delete the imported Web service with all the types in the package, or select a number of them.
For more information, see Deleting External Services.
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