ABAP Proxy In Integration suite - Best practice recommendation

[krishg]

We are migrating from PI/PO to Integration suite and are looking for best practice recommendations for existing proxy scenarios.

As I understand we have multiple options. We can migrate the proxy to MDR (especially if we anticipate changes to the proxy structure and ESR will not be available). Additionally convert to Webservice call using SOAManager (instead of using XI adapter). Considering that we will be performing migraiton to Integration suite, we are trying to determine what would be the best approach.

Are there long term roadmap to keep support for XI adapter? Or would it be better to migrate the proxy scenarios to webservice calls?

[Sriprasadsbhat]

Hello Krish,

Please follow below SAP Help documentation about migrating proxy scenarios to Cloud Integration.

https://help.sap.com/docs/help/90c8ad90cb684ee5979856093efe7462/0797dc0e8ee64589803fd2194e59eb64.htm...

From advantage perspective proxy comes with inbuilt retry handling ( within adapter config ) compared to SOAP ( SOA Manager offers ) where you need to explicitly handle retry.

Regards,

Sriprasad Shivaram Bhat

[krishg]

Thanks, Sriprasad. Would you recommend staying with XI adapter for existing scenarios and continue to use them for new scenarios as well?

[Sriprasadsbhat]

Hello Krish,

Its up to your customers decision. In usual case API first approach is recommended from SAP Strategy perspective ( OData,SOAP ..) since creating custom proxy would lead to more maintenance & reduce the reusability factor.

Regards,

Sriprasad Shivaram Bhat