Understanding Integration Business Services; Creating Integration Business Services; Creating Business Services With Application Explorer - BEA WebLogic User Manual

Understanding Integration Business Services

Understanding Integration Business Services
Servlet Application Explorer provides Web developers with a simple, consistent mechanism
for extending the capabilities of the BEA WebLogic Adapter for SAP. The Integration
Business Services Engine (iBSE) exposes functionality as Web services. It serves as a gateway
to heterogeneous back-end applications and databases.
A Web service is a self-contained, modularized function that you can publish and access
across a network using open standards. It is the implementation of an interface by a
component and is an executable entity. For the caller or sender, a Web service can be
considered as a "black box" that may require input and delivers a result. Web services
integrate within an enterprise as well as across enterprises on any communication
technology stack, whether asynchronous or synchronous, in any format.
After you browse the SAP business object repository and create an XML schema for the
object, you can generate an Integration Business Service for the object you wish to use with
your adapter.

Creating Integration Business Services

The following topics describe how to create Integration Business Services, including how to
generate WSDL (Web Services Description Language) from a Web service.

Creating Business Services With Application Explorer

The following procedure describes how to create Integration Business Services using
Servlet Application Explorer. The procedure uses the SAP BAPI method called
BAPI_MATERIAL_GETLIST as an example and returns a list of materials.
Note: If you want your Web service to use connection pooling, you must specify
connection pooling information when connecting or reconnecting to your SAP target. For
more information on connection pooling, see Chapter 3, Creating XML Schemas for SAP.
Procedure: How to Create Integration Business Services
To create Integration Business Services:
1. From the Business Object Repository, select the BAPI_MATERIAL_GETLIST method.
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