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eWay™ Adapter for SAP BAPI User’s Guide 7 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Chapter 1
Introducing the SAP BAPI eWay
The Sun SeeBeyond eWay™ Adapter for SAP BAPI, also noted throughout this book as
the SAP BAPI eWay, provides Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java
CAPS) Projects with the ability to exchange data with SAP R/3 software. This chapter
provides an overview of the SAP BAPI eWay.
What’s In This Chapter
ƒ About SAP on page 7
ƒ About the SAP BAPI eWay on page 7
ƒ What’s New in This Release on page 11
ƒ What’s In This Document on page 12
ƒ Sun Microsystems, Inc. Web Site on page 14
ƒ Documentation Feedback on page 14
1.1
About SAP
SAP creates software for the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) business sector. The
company main product is SAP R/3 which uses a three-tier application architecture—
database, application server, and client—to facilitate real-time data processing.
1.2
About the SAP BAPI eWay
The SAP BAPI eWay enables Java CAPS Projects to exchange data with SAP R/3
software using Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPIs), RFCs, and
IDocs.
The SAP BAPI eWay uses the SAP Java Connector (SAP JCo) to allow Java applications
to access BAPIs and RFCs.