Connectors

Communication between SAP Systems and other SAP or Non SAP Systems

The SAP Connectors allow the integration of different applications and technologies with SAP Systems via open standards. The connectors are means for technical interoperability of SAP Components (written in ABAP or ABAP Objects) and other components (e. g. written in Java, C++, Visual Basic, .NET, etc.).

Overview

• SAP Business Connector
  The SAP Business Connector (SAP BC) allows you to highly automate and extend your business processes over the Internet using open and non-proprietary standards. Thus the SAP BC seamlessly integrates different IT architectures with SAP Systems. The SAP BC provides bi-directional, real-time as well as asynchronous communication to and from a SAP System.
• SAP Marketplace Connector
  The SAP Marketplace Connector is a connectivity tool. It enables connecting SAP Backend Systems with marketplaces via the Internet. The SAP Marketplace Connector uses IDoc and xCBL as data formats and HTTPS / SSL as communication protocol.
• SAP Java Connector
  The SAP Java Connector (SAP JCo) is a toolkit that allows a Java application to communicate with any SAP system. It combines an easy to use API with unprecedented flexibility and performance. The package supports both, Java to SAP System as well as SAP System to Java calls.
• SAP connector for Microsoft .NET
  The SAP connector for Microsoft .NET offers developers the possibility to expose BAPIs and remotely-enabled function modules to any .NET application (inside-out). It is also possible to access .NET components from a SAP System (outside-in).
• SAP DCOM Connector
  The SAP DCOM Component Connector is set end of life. The SAP .NET Connector is the successor of the SAP DCOM Connector. More information can be found in SAP Note 533055.
• RFC Library
  The RFC Library offers an interface to a SAP System. The RFC Library is the most commonly used and installed component of existing SAP Software. This interface provides the opportunity to call any RFC Function in a SAP System from an external application. Moreover, the RFC Library offers the possibility to write an RFC Server Program, which is accessible from any SAP System or external application. Most SAP Connectors use the RFC Library as communication platform to SAP Systems.
• SAP NetWeaver RFC Library
  The SAP NW RFC Library is the successor of the "classic" RFC Library. It offers a simplified programming model compared to the classic RFC Library, and relieves the application programmer of the necessity to deal with the difficult low level details of RFC programming. New C/C++ projects that require RFC connectivity should in any case begin using the NW RFC Library instead of the classic RFC Library.
• SOAP Processor
  This SOAP Processor is an intrinsic component of the SAP Web AS 6.20 core engine and provides a mechanism for using the SOAP Protocol for synchronously accessing and calling RFC capable function modules that conform to SOAP 1.1. A Web Service Browser can be used for searching and generating WSDL 1.1 compatible function module descriptions. Also a SOAP Client API is provided which enables Web Services that can be represented on function modules to be called synchronously using SOAP 1.1.