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BAPI_TRANSACTION_COMMIT with Web AS/SOAP Interface

Posted on Feb 08, 2005 at 10:47 AM 85 Views

At first glance, it does not appear possible to issue two RFC calls wrapped in a transaction/session using the WebAS SOAP interface. This would essentially make it impossible to use standard BAPIs/RFC's that "write" data and would seem to require writing "wrapper" custom RFC's that call the original RFC and commit it. Naturally, that would seem unnecessary and inconvenient. Is there a session-based protocol for WebAS using cookies and URI requests?

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    Thomas Jung
    Posted on Feb 08, 2005 at 11:40 AM

    In 640 we have the WebService Definitions (instead of the generic SOAP interface in 620). When you generate one of these definitions, you have the ability to activate Session-Oriented Communication for Stateful web Service Communication.

    However in 620 I have never tried to do the same thing using the generic SOAP interface. I have always done as you described and wrote wrapper classes around multiple BAPI calls. To tell you the truth, I rather like the measure of control that this provided me (considering another group(s) within my company will be calling these webservices).

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    • Thomas Jung Former Member
      Feb 09, 2005 at 07:22 AM

      With 640 you should be in real good shape. For details check out the following forum and weblog listings. I have screen shots of where you can set the stateful flag for exposed webservices.

      WEB SERVICES

      /people/thomas.jung3/blog/2004/11/17/bsp-a-developers-journal-part-xiv--consuming-webservices-with-abap

      /people/thomas.jung3/blog/2004/11/15/bsp-150-a-developer146s-journal-part-xiii-developing-abap-webservices

      In my weblog where I am consuming an external webservice, this is stateful. Really the generated proxy class takes care of all the details for you. Have a look and let me know if you have any questions.