XML-Based Process Integration with the Exchange Infrastructure 

By enabling you to generate outside-in interfaces, the Exchange Infrastructure provides a number of additional functions on the basis of XML-based messages:

·        You can manage the technical and semantic metadata of your interfaces centrally and landscape-wide.

·        You have a hub structure for your messaging and not an excessive amount of point-to-point connections.

·        If required by the mass data exchange for performance reasons, you can also create point-to-point connections via the Exchange Infrastructure.

·        Since the interface data is available centrally, you can manage any changes more easily.

·        You can define mappings between data and structures of different technical and semantic types and execute them at runtime.

·        You can specify the destination system of a message according to various different parameters, dynamically at runtime, and following rules defined by yourself (routing).

·        You can split messages – for example, send all messages with specific attributes to an additional system as well as the actual target system.

·        By means of suitable adapters, you can convert messages from other formats into the XML message format of the Exchange Infrastructure and vice versa. For example, you can convert RFC-based calls into XML-based messages and communicate with external systems.