Practical Guide to SAP NetWeaver PI - Development
2nd Edition
Published on 26. May 2010
Book
Hardback
498 pages
978-1-59229-334-6 (ISBN)
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This new edition of Practical Guide to SAP NetWeaver PI - Development is revised and updated to include new functions and practical examples that apply to the newest software release, SAP NetWeaver PI 7.1. As a practical exercise book written for developers, it is devoted to the configuration and development of mappings, adapters, and proxies. Beginning with information about technical prerequisites and basic information on setting up your system, it rounds out explanations with step-by-step exercises and case studies that will prove useful to both the beginner and the advanced user.
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Valentin Nicolescu studied business information management at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. Since 2003, he has worked at the SAP University Competence Center (SAP HCC) at the Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany, where he is responsible for the operation of SAP training systems for higher education throughout Germany and for providing SAP training to higher education teachers.
In addition to his focus on components of the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, he is involved in traditional ERP training with SAP R/3 and SAP ERP. He is a certified SAP technology and development consultant XI and a technology consultant Web AS and Enterprise Portal.
Matthias Heiler holds a degree in physics and is a Solution Sales Executive at SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany. After his studies, he worked as a mainframe application developer in the aviation industry, and then as a project manager on international projects in the areas of banking and automotive for a US consulting firm. He has worked at SAP since 1995, first as a trainer in the area of SAP Basis (R/2 and R/3), and then switched to the Sales area in 1999.
Today, his focus area is service-oriented architectures, particularly integration platforms and business process management. He also lectures in business processes with SAP systems at the International University of Bruchsal, Germany.
Florian Visintin studied information technology, with economics as his minor subject, at Technische Universität München. He is now a Development Consultant working mainly in the area of SAP NetWeaver. During his studies, he worked in a number of companies including Pentos AG in the area of Lotus Notes, focusing on the SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure.
Professor Burkhardt Funk studied physics and information technology at the universities of Kiel, Würzburg and Stony Brook (USA). After obtaining his PhD degree, he began work in 1997 at McKinsey & Company, where he was a consultant in the areas of retail banking and e-business for international banking institutions. In 2000, he founded his own company.
Today, Burkhardt Funk is Professor of Information Management at the University of Lüneburg, Germany. At the Institute for Electronic Business Processes, his areas of work include the business process-oriented integration of business IT systems and the application of web service-based technologies. He is also a managing partner of the Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftsinformatik Lüneburg mbH (Lüneburg Society for Information Management (GWIL)), the main activity of which is carrying out development-intensive projects in the SAP area.
Dr. Holger Wittges obtained his PhD degree from the University of Hohenheim, Germany, under the supervision of Professor Krcmar and with the topic "Connecting Business Process Modeling and Workflow Implementation". He then worked for three years as an IT project leader with debitel AG in Stuttgart, Germany.
Since 2004, he has been operations head of the SAP Hochschul Competence Center (SAP University Competence Center (SAP HCC)) at Technische Universität München. His current research areas are standard software, serviceoriented architectures, and performance metrics in ERP systems. He is also a certified Technology Consultant for SAP NetWeaver-Enterprise Portal & Knowledge Management.
Benedikt Kleine Stegemann studied information management at the University of Lüneburg, Germany. During his studies, he also worked for a number of companies, including Infracor GmbH (Degussa group) and Airbus Deutschland GmbH in Hamburg. He is now a Development Consultant with GWIL GmbH and works mainly on development projects in the SAP area.
Professor Peter Niemeyer studied mathematics at the University of Ulm and the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. He began work at SAP AG after obtaining his PhD degree in 1996. Initially, he spent many years as an application developer in the Financials area of SAP, and then became a Software Consultant, handling several development-oriented projects for national and international companies.
Today, Peter Niemeyer is Professor of Information Management at the University of Lüneburg, Germany. At the Institute for Electronic Business Processes, his areas of work include application development on the basis of ERP systems, and the business process-oriented integration of business IT systems. He is also a managing partner of the Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftsinformatik Lüneburg mbH (Lüneburg Society for Information Management (GWIL)), the main activity of which is carrying out development-intensive projects in the SAP area.
Thomas Morandell studied information technology, with mathematics as his minor subject, at Technische Universität München. During his studies he worked at a number of companies, including OSRAM GmbH. He is now a Development Consultant at SPV AG, and focuses mainly on products of the SAP NetWeaver platform.
Harald Kienegger studied business administration at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (Saxony). During his studies he already specialized in the information systems field, wrote his thesis on the subject of XML-based derivatives and committed himself to his research and teaching. Since 2008 he has been a research assistant at the Department of Information Systems with Prof. Dr. Helmut Krcmar at Technische Universität München. Here, he works on a SAP research project, the Center for Very Large Business Applications (CVLBA), and also provides application support for SAP systems. He is a certified SAP solution consultant for SAP ERP 6.0, with a focus on SAP NetWeaver PI 7.1.
Content
... Foreword ... 13
... Preface ... 17
1 ... Integrating Enterprise Information Systems ... 25
... 1.1 ... Basic Principles ... 25
... 1.2 ... Practical Integration Example ... 31
... 1.3 ... Integration Concepts and Technologies ... 35
... 1.4 ... EAI Platforms and Their Significance in Enterprises ... 44
... 1.5 ... Basics of BPM ... 46
... 1.6 ... Use of ARIS Business Architect and SAP Solution Manager ... 50
2 ... SAP NetWeaver PI ... 57
... 2.1 ... SAP NetWeaver PI as Part of SAP NetWeaver ... 57
... 2.2 ... Functionality of SAP NetWeaver PI ... 68
... 2.3 ... Components ... 76
... 2.4 ... Objects ... 93
... 2.5 ... Advanced Concepts ... 99
... 2.6 ... New Concepts in SAP NetWeaver PI 7.1 ... 113
3 ... Basic System Configuration ... 129
... 3.1 ... Prerequisites ... 129
... 3.2 ... Defining the Connected Systems in the SLD ... 131
... 3.3 ... Integrating the SAP Systems with the SLD ... 140
... 3.4 ... Configuring the Local IE ... 146
... 3.5 ... Adapter-Specific System Settings ... 157
... 3.6 ... Course-Specific Preparations ... 168
4 ... Technical Exercises ... 183
... 4.1 ... Exercise 1: RFC-to-File ... 185
... 4.2 ... Exercise 2: File-to-IDoc ... 220
... 4.3 ... Exercise 3: ABAP-Proxy-to-Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) ... 238
... 4.4 ... Exercise 4: Business Process Management (BPM) ... 254
... 4.5 ... Exercise 5: File-to-JDBC ... 290
... 4.6 ... More Adapters ... 307
5 ... SARIDIS Case Study in Sales and Distribution (SD) ... 311
... 5.1 ... Creating the Query ... 314
... 5.2 ... Submitting the Quotations ... 333
... 5.3 ... Entering a Sales Order ... 371
... 5.4 ... Delivering the Invoice ... 392
... 5.5 ... Manual Decision on Queries ... 405
6 ... Enhancements and Outlook ... 423
... 6.1 ... Possible Enhancements to the Case Study ... 423
... 6.2 ... Beer Distribution Game ... 429
... 6.3 ... SAP NetWeaver PI and SOA ... 435
... 6.4 ... Further Development of SAP NetWeaver PI ... 436
... 6.5 ... Summary ... 456
... Appendices ... 457
... A ... Exercise Materials ... 459
... B ... Bibliography ... 479
... C ... The Authors ... 483
... Index ... 487