SAP Process Orchestration
The Comprehensive Guide
1st Edition
Published on 28. April 2015
Book
Hardback
727 pages
978-1-4932-1018-3 (ISBN)
Description
Are you ready for the next generation of SAP Process Integration? Meet SAP Process Orchestration! This is your complete guide to the tools and components of SAP PO. Learn how to build and configure interfaces, and then use SAP BPM to manage your business processes. Thanks to both a practical and comprehensive approach, you'll find out how to configure the System Landscape Directory, create an iFlow, monitor message processing, create BPM processes, and so much more.
Advanced Adapter Engine Extended (AEX)
Learn how to configure and work with the System Landscape Directory, Enterprise Service Repository, the Integration Directory, and message processing.
SAP Business Process Management
Here's your guide to everything SAP BPM: perform administration tasks, learn how to automate business processes, and build human-centric and system-centric processes from scratch.
Migration
If you haven't switched from SAP Process Integration to SAP Process Orchestration, chances are you will soon. Get ahead by learning what changes are coming, and benefit from practical information about migrating business processes.
Highlights:
Administration and development tools
System Landscape Directory
Enterprise Service Repository
Integration Directory
iFlow
Advanced Adapter Engine Extended (AEX)
Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)
SAP Business Rule Management
Java proxies
Monitor business processes
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Persons
Author
John Mutumba Bilay is a senior software engineer and enterprise integration consultant at Rojo Consultancy. With more than 12 years of international experience in information technology, including eight specifically devoted to SAP, his speciality is software development, integration, and business process automation.
Roberto Viana Blanco is an experienced SAP integration architect and co-founder of Rojo Consultancy. He has over 15 years of SAP integration experience working across a number of industries. He has been working with SAP since the early versions of SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure (XI) and has helped several organizations adopt first SAP NetWeaver Process Integration and then SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration.
Content
Foreword . 19
Acknowledgments . 21
Introduction . 23
PART I Getting Started
1 Introduction to SAP Process Orchestration . 29
1.1 Historical Overview and Evolution . 29
1.2 SAP Process Orchestration Components . 33
1.3 Architectural Overview and Positioning . 39
1.4 Installation Options . 47
1.5 Summary . 51
2 Administration and Development Tools . 53
2.1 Process Orchestration Tools . 53
2.2 SAP NetWeaver Administrator . 70
2.3 SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio . 78
2.4 Summary . 83
PART II Advanced Adapter Engine Extended (AEX)
3 Configuring the System Landscape Directory . 87
3.1 System Landscape Directory Components and Features . 88
3.2 Registering Systems to the SLD . 102
3.3 Administration of the SLD . 105
3.4 System Landscape Directory Strategies . 108
3.5 Tips and Tricks . 114
3.6 Summary . 120
4 Working with the Enterprise Services Repository and Registry . 121
4.1 Basic ES Repository Technical Concepts . 122
4.2 Design Objects . 130
4.3 Data Types and Message Types . 137
4.4 Summary . 141
5 Working with the Integration Directory . 143
5.1 Integration Directory Overview . 143
5.2 Collaboration Profiles .145
5.3 Adapter Types . 161
5.4 Integrated Configuration . 163
5.5 The XI Message Protocol . 174
5.6 Configuration Scenario . 176
5.7 Value Mapping . 177
5.8 B2B Integration . 181
5.9 Axis Framework . 183
5.10 Message Alerting . 187
5.11 Publish the Service in the Services Registry . 194
5.12 Integration Directory Programming Interface (Directory API) . 194
5.13 Summary . 197
6 Building an Integration Flow . 199
6.1 SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio . 200
6.2 Basics of Creating and Configuring an Integration Flow . 206
6.3 iFlow Example . 213
6.4 Summary . 231
7 Administration and Monitoring in AEX . 233
7.1 Administration . 233
7.2 Monitoring . 238
7.3 Troubleshooting . 246
7.4 Summary . 252
8 Migrating Interfaces from SAP PI Dual Stack to SAP PO . 255
8.1 Migration Strategies . 255
8.2 Migrating System Landscape Directory Content . 259
8.3 Migrating Enterprise Services Repository Content . 262
8.4 Migrating Integration Directory Content . 263
8.5 Summary . 275
PART III Business Process Management and Composition
9 Introduction to SAP BPM and BPMN 2.0 . 279
9.1 Managing Business Processes . 280
9.2 SAP BPM . 282
9.3 Business Process Model and Notation 2.0 . 288
9.4 Summary . 307
10 Creating Your First SAP Business Process Management Process . 309
10.1 SAP BPM Positioning and Development Environment . 309
10.2 Implementation of a BPM Process . 315
10.3 Flow Objects . 343
10.5 Advanced Mapping . 391
10.6 Implementing Error Handling . 398
10.7 Combining BPM and AEX: The Orchestration . 400
10.8 Summary . 407
11 Applying Advanced SAP BPM Concepts and Extensions . 409
11.1 SOA Configuration . 409
11.2 Testing and Running an SAP BPM Process . 423
11.3 Custom EJB Function . 429
11.4 Using the Claim Check Pattern . 438
11.5 SAP BPM Application Programming Interface . 442
11.6 SAP BPM OData . 445
11.7 Debugging and Troubleshooting SAP BPM Processes . 447
11.8 Tuning SAP BPM-Related Performance Parameters . 451
11.9 Best Practices for Your SAP BPM Application . 453
11.10 Summary . 456
12 Combining SAP BPM and UI Technologies . 459
12.1 Web Dynpro Java UI Technology . 459
12.2 Integrating SAPUI5 into an SAP BPM Process . 470
12.4 Summary . 487
13 SAP Business Rules Management . 489
13.1 How Business Rules Work . 489
13.2 SAP Business Rules Management (SAP BRM) . 494
13.3 Modeling Business Rules with Rules Composer . 503
13.4 Testing Business Rules . 517
13.5 Best Practices for Modeling Business Rules . 518
13.6 Summary . 521
14 Implementing Java Proxies . 523
14.1 Java Proxy Concept and Considerations . 524
14.2 Implementation Approaches . 525
14.3 Technical Implementation . 527
14.4 Building an Orchestration . 557
14.5 Summary . 558
15 Administration and Monitoring Message Processing in SAP BPM . 559
15.1 Monitoring . 559
15.2 Administration . 576
15.3 Summary . 579
16 Migrating ccBPM from SAP PI to SAP PO . 581
16.1 Motivation for Migration . 581
16.2 Migration Approach . 584
16.3 Recommendations . 600
16.4 Summary . 602
PART IV Advanced Concepts
17 Other Useful Components . 607
17.1 Component Model . 608
17.2 SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure . 618
17.3 SAP Composite Application Framework . 640
17.4 Service Registry . 648
17.5 Transport Options in SAP PO . 651
17.6 Summary . 657
18 Landscape Setup Considerations . 659
18.1 Java System Configuration . 659
18.2 Handling Certificates . 672
18.3 Housekeeping . 673
18.4 Monitoring . 674
18.5 Summary . 683
Appendices . 685
A. Orchestration Outlook . 685
A.1 SAP API Management . 685
A.2 SAP HANA Cloud Integration . 686
A.3 The Integration Advisor . 702
B The Authors . 705
Index . 707