SAP R/3
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I need some help of the fellow CPians who may have experience in SAP R/3. I'm completely lost here. Any Google search returns so many consulting companies providing SAP services that render it almost useless. A customer asked if we support SAP R/3 (it's running on Unix, I don't know if it matters) integration in our software. Basically, what he needs is to call a few methods in our API: we support COM, Sockets and Web Services. He also told us that this is impossible, and the only possible integration is by file exchange, which sucks. I can't believe that a product so famous as SAP R/3 can't connect to a socket or a Web Service. Is it true? Does SAP R/3 support programming? Google revealed something about ABAP, am I right? Is ABAP powerful enough to do COM, Sockets or Web Services? Yes, even I am blogging now!
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I need some help of the fellow CPians who may have experience in SAP R/3. I'm completely lost here. Any Google search returns so many consulting companies providing SAP services that render it almost useless. A customer asked if we support SAP R/3 (it's running on Unix, I don't know if it matters) integration in our software. Basically, what he needs is to call a few methods in our API: we support COM, Sockets and Web Services. He also told us that this is impossible, and the only possible integration is by file exchange, which sucks. I can't believe that a product so famous as SAP R/3 can't connect to a socket or a Web Service. Is it true? Does SAP R/3 support programming? Google revealed something about ABAP, am I right? Is ABAP powerful enough to do COM, Sockets or Web Services? Yes, even I am blogging now!
Well, I don’t know much about SAP, but I do know (well, I was told this a while back) that a lot of SAP’s backend is built on Java and J2EE. Maybe they have a way to connect to SAP via COM to Java and then access some Java libs that SAP makes. Jeremy Falcon
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I need some help of the fellow CPians who may have experience in SAP R/3. I'm completely lost here. Any Google search returns so many consulting companies providing SAP services that render it almost useless. A customer asked if we support SAP R/3 (it's running on Unix, I don't know if it matters) integration in our software. Basically, what he needs is to call a few methods in our API: we support COM, Sockets and Web Services. He also told us that this is impossible, and the only possible integration is by file exchange, which sucks. I can't believe that a product so famous as SAP R/3 can't connect to a socket or a Web Service. Is it true? Does SAP R/3 support programming? Google revealed something about ABAP, am I right? Is ABAP powerful enough to do COM, Sockets or Web Services? Yes, even I am blogging now!
I'm an SAP beginner, but I can hopefully give you some sort of help. Yes SAP does support programming. ABAP/4 which you found on google is what you program it in. I just learned very basic ABAP in a training class, so I can't really tell you if it can do all that. However it can connect to sockets, as the setup we had in the training class there was a main SAP server computer that each of us connected to in order to access our programs. I'd imagine it also can connect to web services as well. That's all that I know as I'm a beginner and don't know too much about it. There are a few books on Amazon that teach ABAP if you wanted to look into it more.
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I need some help of the fellow CPians who may have experience in SAP R/3. I'm completely lost here. Any Google search returns so many consulting companies providing SAP services that render it almost useless. A customer asked if we support SAP R/3 (it's running on Unix, I don't know if it matters) integration in our software. Basically, what he needs is to call a few methods in our API: we support COM, Sockets and Web Services. He also told us that this is impossible, and the only possible integration is by file exchange, which sucks. I can't believe that a product so famous as SAP R/3 can't connect to a socket or a Web Service. Is it true? Does SAP R/3 support programming? Google revealed something about ABAP, am I right? Is ABAP powerful enough to do COM, Sockets or Web Services? Yes, even I am blogging now!
No, unfortunately it's very hard to do that with ABAP, what they(and maybe you too) need is the SAP Exchange Infrastructure, http://www11.sap.com/solutions/netweaver/exchangeinfrastructure/index.aspx[^] whic supports, java, web services, etc. You can also get more info in whole SAP Net weaver section.
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I need some help of the fellow CPians who may have experience in SAP R/3. I'm completely lost here. Any Google search returns so many consulting companies providing SAP services that render it almost useless. A customer asked if we support SAP R/3 (it's running on Unix, I don't know if it matters) integration in our software. Basically, what he needs is to call a few methods in our API: we support COM, Sockets and Web Services. He also told us that this is impossible, and the only possible integration is by file exchange, which sucks. I can't believe that a product so famous as SAP R/3 can't connect to a socket or a Web Service. Is it true? Does SAP R/3 support programming? Google revealed something about ABAP, am I right? Is ABAP powerful enough to do COM, Sockets or Web Services? Yes, even I am blogging now!
SAP also supports Java. What I did was integrate SAP with our software. There is a SAP connector for .NET. The only way to get it is with a SAP ID. Your customer must have one. Good Luck BTW: I have the connectors, but is better if you ask for them to your customer. Free your mind...
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I need some help of the fellow CPians who may have experience in SAP R/3. I'm completely lost here. Any Google search returns so many consulting companies providing SAP services that render it almost useless. A customer asked if we support SAP R/3 (it's running on Unix, I don't know if it matters) integration in our software. Basically, what he needs is to call a few methods in our API: we support COM, Sockets and Web Services. He also told us that this is impossible, and the only possible integration is by file exchange, which sucks. I can't believe that a product so famous as SAP R/3 can't connect to a socket or a Web Service. Is it true? Does SAP R/3 support programming? Google revealed something about ABAP, am I right? Is ABAP powerful enough to do COM, Sockets or Web Services? Yes, even I am blogging now!
Hi, Yes, ABAP is SAP programming language. I am not a veteran programmer, but from the links below, suffice to say that what your customer told you is incorrect. Here are a few links that might help you to start: http://www.microsoft-sap.com/net_connector.aspx[^] http://www.thecodeproject.com/dotnet/SapDBReader.asp[^] https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/collaboration.sdn[^] http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/14/80243b4a66ae0ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm[^] Also, if you must avoid .NET, you and your customer (SAP Side) need to be familiar with SAP RFC programming. http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/22/0428cd488911d189490000e829fbbd/frameset.htm[^] Good luck
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I need some help of the fellow CPians who may have experience in SAP R/3. I'm completely lost here. Any Google search returns so many consulting companies providing SAP services that render it almost useless. A customer asked if we support SAP R/3 (it's running on Unix, I don't know if it matters) integration in our software. Basically, what he needs is to call a few methods in our API: we support COM, Sockets and Web Services. He also told us that this is impossible, and the only possible integration is by file exchange, which sucks. I can't believe that a product so famous as SAP R/3 can't connect to a socket or a Web Service. Is it true? Does SAP R/3 support programming? Google revealed something about ABAP, am I right? Is ABAP powerful enough to do COM, Sockets or Web Services? Yes, even I am blogging now!
I was last in SAP in 1999 (I suppose my certification has lapsed by now), and it has changed a bit since then, but even then there was provision in the ABAP language to call COM objects, and there was an ActiveX component that allowed you to call SAP functions from COM. It can only have gotten better since then. Don't get ripped-off by the life assurance industry.
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Hi, Yes, ABAP is SAP programming language. I am not a veteran programmer, but from the links below, suffice to say that what your customer told you is incorrect. Here are a few links that might help you to start: http://www.microsoft-sap.com/net_connector.aspx[^] http://www.thecodeproject.com/dotnet/SapDBReader.asp[^] https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/collaboration.sdn[^] http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/14/80243b4a66ae0ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm[^] Also, if you must avoid .NET, you and your customer (SAP Side) need to be familiar with SAP RFC programming. http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/22/0428cd488911d189490000e829fbbd/frameset.htm[^] Good luck
Hey, thanks! That's exactly what I needed :) Yes, even I am blogging now!