xMII - Xi - ECC, Have you done it?

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I'm trying to call a BAPI in my ECC system from xMII. But, just for fun, I'm putting Xi in the middle. The BAPI is an existing BAPI in ECC, and I can export it to Xi. But I can't get the xMII (via JCO) to see it.

Does anyone have any suggestions on this?

Same question, different thread:

[Former Member]

I solved this by taking Xi out of the loop for RFC calls. There is an article floating around about doing this, but it didn't look to be officially supported by SAP.

[salvatore_castro]

Paul,

In addition to what Rick has said there is also an xMII to XI guide and even a custom action that will allow for very detailed communication with the XI environment. The link is available on the <a href="https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/xMII/Main">xMII Wiki</a> under Connectivity or you can just click <a href="https://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/403696e3-53bf-2910-ab94-ee4a7d2ea391">here</a>. Hope this helps.

-Sam

[Former Member]

Hi, Paul.

You should definitely be able to invoke the BAPI from JCO...if you still have problems, contact the support team and they can sleuth it out for you.

I noticed that you were trying to call BAPI_PRODORDCONF_CREATE_TT (from your other post), and I was able to successfully load/map this into the JCO action in xMII without problem.

- Rick

[Former Member]

Paul is trying to call BAPI_PRODORDCONF_CREATE_TT <i>through XI</i>. His question is partly an XI question and partly an xMII question. For someone that knows next to nothing about XI, what is the <i>preferred</i> XI integration method if you wanted to invoke a BAPI on R/3 from xMII? Can't XI proxy an R/3 BAPI allowing you to use the xMII JCO action to call the BAPI now proxied on XI? Or is there a better/simpler way?

-tim

[Former Member]

I guess the key question is, why would you want to do that? It seems an unnecessary layer for invoking an RFC (which is effectively all a BAPI is).

In case you have a masochistic desire to do it anyway I've usually used a web service or HTTP listener/port along with the "wrapper" configuration in XI, and use either the Web Service Action or the HTTP Post action. In the latter case, you'll also probably want to create/provide a reference document to "teach" xMII what the format of the XML message to be posted is.

- Rick