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what are all the advantages of JDBC, RFC, WebService Lookups

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Hi Friends,

Please tell me advantages and Disadvantages of JDBC, RFC, Webservice Lookups.

Thanks in Advancs.

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baskar_gopalakrishnan2
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Example: PI 7.1 comes with JDBC and RFC Lookup. During mapping we might have requirement to do validation or create logic based on the reference values in the table or SAP backend. In this standpoint, we do JDBC and RFC Lookup. Earlier, we used to do coding in UDF or java mapping to achieve this. Now, we have it as a lookup graphical function.

Webservice Lookup is again the same idea. but we dont have lookup graphical function. We still need to do UDF coding to achieve this.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwpi71/helpdata/en/44/749dd812dd3676e10000000a114a6b/content.htm

/people/jin.shin/blog/2008/02/15/sap-pi-71-mapping-enhancements-series-graphical-support-for-jdbc-and-rfc-lookups

Disadvantage:

If your soap message is larger size, dont do webservice lookup in UDF coding. It has maintanence issues.

Parameterized mapping along with Integrated configuration is not currently possibe both in PI 7.1 and EHP1.