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Adapter Overview

What are XI Adapters?

Adapters enable communication between the XI integration engine and an application system. This leads to the compatibility between heterogeneous systems
Adapters convert the XI protocol (SOAP with attachments over HTTP) to the protocol spoken by the application system and vice-versa
The key purpose of XI is to integrate heterogeneous systems and adapters are the key enabler to achieving this goal

Adapter Categories

Application adapters provided by SAP (IDoc and RFC) and 3rd party vendors (Seeburger, Siebel, Oracle, ...)
Technical adapters relate to specific protocols
- File systems (FTP / File)
- RDBMS systems (JDBC)
- Messaging systems (JMS)
- Web services (SOAP)
- Mail servers (SMTP)
- SAP Business Connector
- Marketplaces
Industry standard adapters
- RosettaNet
- CIDX

The Adapter Engine

The XI Adapter engine is the home of the majority of the XI adapters. Only the IDoc adapter and the plain HTTP adapter do not reside on the adapter engine. They reside on the Integration Server.

It is fully integrated in to the XI landscape with tools provided for configuration, logistics and monitoring. It's Adapter Framework is based on the JCA.

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