Develop BizTalk applications using the SAP adapter

Developing BizTalk applications involves creating a BizTalk project in Visual Studio and using the Consume Adapter Service BizTalk Project Add-in or Add Adapter Metadata Wizard to generate XML schema. Once you have generated the schema, you can either use Content-Based Routing (CBR) or create BizTalk orchestrations to send and receive messages that conform to the generated schema.

CBR can be used in scenarios where the messages being sent to the SAP system do not require any intensive processing. For example, if you know that the receive port will be receiving messages only of a certain type, you can add a filter to the send port to route the messages matching the filter expression to the send port.

In BizTalk orchestrations, you create send and receive ports to send and receive messages to and from the WCF-Custom adapter, which in turn sends the messages to BizTalk Server. This section provides information about using BizTalk orchestrations to perform operations on the SAP system using the SAP adapter. The SAP adapter in turn uses the WCF-Custom adapter adapter that can interact with a WCF binding.

Important

To use the SAP adapter with Microsoft BizTalk Server, you must always set the EnableBizTalkCompatibilityMode binding property to True. For information about how to set binding properties, see Configure the binding properties for the SAP adapter.

In This Section

• Prerequisites to create SAP applications

• Building blocks to create SAP applications

• Invoke RFCs in SAP using BizTalk Server

• Receive Inbound RFC Calls from SAP using BizTalk Server

• Invoke tRFCs in SAP using BizTalk Server

• Receive Inbound tRFC Calls from SAP using BizTalk Server

• Run BAPI Transactions in SAP using BizTalk Server

• Send IDOCs to SAP using BizTalk Server

• Receive IDOCs from SAP using BizTalk Server

• Receive IDOCs from SAP in a Transactional Context using BizTalk Server

See Also

Develop your SAP applications