Hi fellow sdners gurus…  I have been reading threads about SAP SOA and ESB. 

I do not want to start a debate on wether XI is an ESB, but more of a statement to what is SAP ESB (if XI it is, then be it).

1) What is SAP ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) today (I could not find a clear answer to is)? 

2) Who uses this SAP ESB in production currently and what kind of environment (i.e. strictly SAP backend systems, or combination of various vendors’ backend systems)?

Can someone share some light on this topic?

As a reminder, an ESB is expected to exhibit the following characteristics (source Wikipedia):

•     It is usually operating-system and programming-language agnostic; for example, it should enable interoperability between Java and .NET applications.

•     It uses XML (eXtensible Markup Language) as the standard communication language.

•     It supports web-services standards.

•     It supports various MEPs (Message Exchange Patterns) (e.g., synchronous request/response, asynchronous request/response, send-and-forget, publish/subscribe).

•     It includes adapters for supporting integration with legacy systems, possibly based on standards such as JCA

•     It includes a standardized security model to authorize, authenticate and audit use of the ESB.

•     To facilitate the transformation of data formats and values, it includes transformation services (often via XSLT or XQuery) between the format of the sending application and the receiving application.

•     It includes validation against schemas for sending and receiving messages.

•     It can uniformly apply business rules, enriching messages from other sources, the splitting and combining of multiple messages and the handling of exceptions.

•     It can provide a unified abstraction across multiple layers

•     It can route or transform messages conditionally, based on a non-centralized policy (i.e. no central rules-engine needs to be present).

•     It is monitored for various SLA (Service Level Agreement) threshold message latencies and other SLA characteristics.

•     It (often) facilitates "service classes," responding appropriately to higher and lower priority users.

•     It supports queuing, holding messages if applications are temporarily unavailable.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Jean-Michel

Hi,

We are developing consumer proxies on ECC enhancement Package 4.

Could you please advice us on the mandatory Technical Configuration that is required in order to consume Web Services from external (non-SAP systems) Providers?

We are trying to test a consumer proxy which consumes a Web Service hosted on a third party system but we are getting the following error:

SOAP:1.023 SRT: Processing error in Internet Communication Framework: (""ICF Error when receiving the response: ICM_HTTP_

Thank you in advance.

Kind Regards

Hi all,

I'm consuming the FEDEX's webservices and in my program, when call the webservice, i have the following error in class CX_AI_SYSTEM_FAULT

SoapFaultCode:5 Schema validation failed for request.

I followed these steps:

1. Upload FEDEX's certificates in with transaction STRUST;
2. Setting logical port ZFEDEX2, for proxy class ZSAPCO_SHIP_PORT_TYPE
   - I have configured the logical port through the transaction LPCONFIG because I have read in    another tread that there could be problems with the soamanager creation

with this RFC Connection TEST FEDEX

and from the connection test i received this result

with this response test

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

Set-Cookie: siteDC=edc; expires=Sat, 15-Mar-2014 10:08:21 GMT; path=/; domain=.fedex.com

Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:08:21 GMT

server: Apache/2.2

Content-Length: 537

x-wily-servlet: Encrypt1 GaMcoOotgOSMyoYj73M4djxB/BFdu6Bd7dK9l2vKcsLoBxuCEbM12kwUffT0WqzWwhNfXxOuv1xkOK5NUzCbP46u7vtBQL8InqrXYgHsCoR6RU11Zne5eRfVnPz2s4QoAfUE5yxilT7zScFtfZK+sxj5Zjkq07EaX/nPYBoBDkMKtoQWupT2pv319V0zUzb33tE3OiegMzcUyiDQsyexGQ==

x-powered-by: Servlet/2.5 JSP/2.1

x-wily-info: Clear guid=C0105A7ECC87128E0CB43EA877E4A475

connection: close

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soapenv:Header/><soapenv:Body><soapenv:Fault><faultcode>soapenv:Client</faultcode><faultstring>9999: Empty web-service request, unable to determine service.</faultstring><detail><con:fault xmlns:con="http://www.bea.com/wli/sb/context"><con:errorCode>9999</con:errorCode><con:reason>Empty web-service request, unable to determine service.</con:reason></con:fault></detail></soapenv:Fault></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>

My consuming webservices program is:

REPORT zfedex_test.
DATA proxy TYPE REF TO zsapco_ship_port_type.

DATA input TYPE zsapprocess_shipment_request1.
DATA output TYPE zsapprocess_shipment_reply1.

DATA: lo_sys_exception TYPE REF TO cx_ai_system_fault ,
err_string TYPE string.

TRY.
CREATE OBJECT proxy
EXPORTING
logical_port_name = 'ZFEDEX2'.
CATCH cx_ai_system_fault.
ENDTRY.

input-process_shipment_request-web_authentication_detail-user_credential-key = '*************************'.
input-process_shipment_request-web_authentication_detail-user_credential-password = ‘******************************'.


input-process_shipment_request-client_detail-account_number = '************'.
input-process_shipment_request-client_detail-meter_number = '*************'.

input-process_shipment_request-transaction_detail-customer_transaction_id = 'TEST'.


input-process_shipment_request-version-service_id = 'ship'.
input-process_shipment_request-version-major = '13'.
input-process_shipment_request-version-intermediate = '0'.
input-process_shipment_request-version-minor = '0'.

*input-process_shipment_request-REQUESTED_SHIPMENT-Ship_Timestamp = '2014-02-10T06:28:50'.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-dropoff_type = 'REGULAR_PICKUP'.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-service_type = 'SMART_POST'.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-packaging_type = 'YOUR_PACKAGING'.

input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-shipper-contact-person_name  = 'Sender Name'.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-shipper-contact-company_name = 'Sender Company Name'.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-shipper-contact-phone_number = '1234567890'.

APPEND 'Address line 1' TO input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-shipper-address-street_lines.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-shipper-address-city = 'Austin'.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-shipper-address-state_or_province_code = 'TX'.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-shipper-address-postal_code = '73301'.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-shipper-address-country_code = 'US'.

input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-recipient-contact-person_name  = 'Recipient Name'.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-recipient-contact-company_name = 'Recipient Company Name'.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-recipient-contact-phone_number = '1234567890'.

APPEND 'Address Line 1' TO input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-recipient-address-street_lines.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-recipient-address-city = 'Herndon'.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-recipient-address-state_or_province_code = 'VA'.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-recipient-address-postal_code = '20171'.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-recipient-address-country_code = 'US'.

input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-shipping_charges_payment-payment_type = 'SENDER'.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-shipping_charges_payment-payor-responsible_party-account_number = '510087941'.

input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-smart_post_detail-indicia = 'PARCEL_SELECT'.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-smart_post_detail-ancillary_endorsement = 'CARRIER_LEAVE_IF_NO_RESPONSE'.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-smart_post_detail-hub_id = '5531'.

input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-label_specification-label_format_type = 'COMMON2D'.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-label_specification-image_type = 'PDF'.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-label_specification-label_stock_type = 'PAPER_7X4.75'.


APPEND 'account' TO input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-rate_request_types.
input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-package_count = '1'.

DATA linea TYPE LINE OF zsaprequested_package_line_tab.
linea-sequence_number = '1'.
linea-group_package_count = '1'.
linea-weight-units = 'LB'.
linea-weight-value = '5'.
linea-dimensions-length = '6'.
linea-dimensions-width = '4'.
linea-dimensions-height = '1'.
linea-dimensions-units = 'IN'.

DATA cref TYPE LINE OF zsapcustomer_reference_tab.
cref-customer_reference_type = 'CUSTOMER_REFERENCE'.
cref-value = 'GR4567892'.
APPEND cref TO linea-customer_references.
cref-customer_reference_type = 'INVOICE_NUMBER'.
cref-value = 'INV4567892'.
APPEND cref TO linea-customer_references.
cref-customer_reference_type = 'P_O_NUMBER'.
cref-value = 'PO4567892'.
APPEND cref TO linea-customer_references.

APPEND linea TO input-process_shipment_request-requested_shipment-requested_package_line_items.



*PROCESS_SHIPMENT_REQUEST
*
*WEB_AUTHENTICATION_DETAIL
*CLIENT_DETAIL
*TRANSACTION_DETAIL
*VERSION
*REQUESTED_SHIPMENT
*
*USER_CREDENTIAL
*
*KEY
*PASSWORD

TRY.
CALL METHOD proxy->process_shipment
EXPORTING
input  = input
IMPORTING
output = output.

CATCH cx_ai_system_fault  INTO lo_sys_exception.
err_string = lo_sys_exception->get_text( ).

CATCH cx_ai_application_fault .
ENDTR

hi all, I´ve created a web service (provider)   in SE80 with the wizard and set to no authentication...but each time I put the url of the WSDL of this web service in the explorer I get a popup to loggin....The same when from Java we try to create the client....they are asked for user-password....

how I need to set the web service in the SICF to get no authentication if I´ve set no authentication profile in SE80 for this web service???

Do I need to do anything in SOAMANAGER too???

What I´m missing???

The system where I´m working is an ECC6.0

Thanks in advance...

Hi,

          In my company they are planning to implement ARIS with SAP Solution Manager. I am trying to get some information regarding this. What are the benefits we get if we integrate ARIS with SAP solution manager and what are the pre-requisites to implement ARIS with SAP solution manager?

              If you have some information about this please share with me

Thanks and Regards,

Sreekala.

Dear all

what are the basic settings to do to make the transaction SOAMANAGER work? We migrated from 4.7 to ECC6 and when I run SOAMANAGER i get following error below.

Error when processing your request

What has happened?

The URL http://xxxxxxxx/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/appl_soap_management was not called due to an error.

Note

The following error text was processed in the system xx : An exception occurred that was not caught.

The error occurred on the application server xxxxx and in the work process 0 .

The termination type was: RABAX_STATE

The ABAP call stack was:

Method: CHECK of program CX_FQDN=======================CP

Method: STARTUP_CHECKS of program CL_WDR_UCF====================CP

Method: CONSTRUCTOR of program CL_WDR_UCF====================CP

Method: CREATE of program CL_WDR_UCF====================CP

Method: HANDLE_REQUEST of program CL_WDR_CLIENT_ABSTRACT_HTTP===CP

Method: IF_HTTP_EXTENSION~HANDLE_REQUEST of program CL_WDR_MAIN_TASK==============CP

Method: EXECUTE_REQUEST of program CL_HTTP_SERVER================CP

Function: HTTP_DISPATCH_REQUEST of program SAPLHTTP_RUNTIME

Module: %_HTTP_START of program SAPMHTTP

What can I do?

If the termination type was RABAX_STATE, then you can find more information on the cause of the termination in the system xx in transaction ST22.

If the termination type was ABORT_MESSAGE_STATE, then you can find more information on the cause of the termination on the application server xxx in transaction SM21.

If the termination type was ERROR_MESSAGE_STATE, then you can search for more information in the trace file for the work process 0 in transaction ST11 on the application server xxxx . In some situations, you may also need to analyze the trace files of other work processes.

If you do not yet have a user ID, contact your system administrator.

Error code: ICF-IE-http -c: 010 -u: xxxx -l: E -s: xx -i:xxxx -w: 0 -d: 20090929 -t: 091101 -v: RABAX_STATE -e: UNCAUGHT_EXCEPTION

HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error

Your SAP Internet Communication Framework Team

Hi All,

  How can I change soap header from consuming webservice? we are on SAP 7.00 SP15 (No XI or PI)

  I am able to call some methods that do not require the header for third party web service (.net).

  This is the header that sap generate:

<soap-env:Header>
 ....<n1:MessageID xmlns:n1="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing">uuid:4bdbf1ed-6c9c-1d52-e100-0000c0a8cf8a</n1:MessageID>  ....</soap-env:Header>

  This is the header that third party web service require.

  <soap:Header>    <MultiSpeakMsgHeader Version="string" UserID="string" Pwd="string">  </soap:Header>

Thanks,

Chaiphon

We want to be able to export and import web service end points.

Use cases, in case you are interested:

• We have web service end points in client 100. They get called from a Visual Composer application. We make a full client copy from 100 to 101 as a back-up. We test some stuff that cannot be undone in client 100. It goes wrong. We copy back client 101 to 100. All data is back to the previous state ... except the web service end points. Apparently they are simply not copied in client copies at all, which probably makes sense. So we need to export them before and import them again in the end. Having to manually recreate them is effort, and worse it requires adjusting the callers.
• We have several identical copies of a landscape, running in fenced virtual machines as linked clones, which means they also have the same host names. We try something in one landscape that involves the creation of web service end points. We can copy most content from one landscape to the other, e.g. enterprise service defintions from the ESR can be exported as files, the implementation (ABAP coding) of enterprise services can be taken over as transport requests (K and R files) and for Visual Composer applications we can upload export the workspace and upload it to a different server. Just the web service end points can only be taken over by manual recreation.

Search in SCN and on help.sap.com brings up nothing, I guess that there simply is no way of exporting web service end points, because our use cases are not so typical, and in most landscapes it does not make sense to transfer web service end points to another server, as it would have a different host name.

So we want to code our own export/import mechanism. Can someone give me some clues how to start? In which table (or across which tables) are web service end points stored? Which functions or class methods exist for reading or writing web service end points?

Monika.

Hi,

I am given with some XML Schema definitions of some web interface (service )and asked me to consume that web interface ( Service ) in SAP.

I know consuming web service if i am given with WSDL file. but i dont know how to consume in this case i.e. i dont have wsdl file.

Please suggest me, do i need to convert xml schema to wsdl, if yes how can i do that?

or how to consume web service in this scenario. 

correct me i am wrong with above explanation.

Thanks..

Dear all

what are the basic settings to do to make the transaction SOAMANAGER work? We migrated from 4.7 to ECC6 and when I run SOAMANAGER i get following error below.

Error when processing your request

What has happened?

The URL http://xxxxxxxx/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/appl_soap_management was not called due to an error.

Note

The following error text was processed in the system xx : An exception occurred that was not caught.

The error occurred on the application server xxxxx and in the work process 0 .

The termination type was: RABAX_STATE

The ABAP call stack was:

Method: CHECK of program CX_FQDN=======================CP

Method: STARTUP_CHECKS of program CL_WDR_UCF====================CP

Method: CONSTRUCTOR of program CL_WDR_UCF====================CP

Method: CREATE of program CL_WDR_UCF====================CP

Method: HANDLE_REQUEST of program CL_WDR_CLIENT_ABSTRACT_HTTP===CP

Method: IF_HTTP_EXTENSION~HANDLE_REQUEST of program CL_WDR_MAIN_TASK==============CP

Method: EXECUTE_REQUEST of program CL_HTTP_SERVER================CP

Function: HTTP_DISPATCH_REQUEST of program SAPLHTTP_RUNTIME

Module: %_HTTP_START of program SAPMHTTP

What can I do?

If the termination type was RABAX_STATE, then you can find more information on the cause of the termination in the system xx in transaction ST22.

If the termination type was ABORT_MESSAGE_STATE, then you can find more information on the cause of the termination on the application server xxx in transaction SM21.

If the termination type was ERROR_MESSAGE_STATE, then you can search for more information in the trace file for the work process 0 in transaction ST11 on the application server xxxx . In some situations, you may also need to analyze the trace files of other work processes.

If you do not yet have a user ID, contact your system administrator.

Error code: ICF-IE-http -c: 010 -u: xxxx -l: E -s: xx -i:xxxx -w: 0 -d: 20090929 -t: 091101 -v: RABAX_STATE -e: UNCAUGHT_EXCEPTION

HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error

Your SAP Internet Communication Framework Team

Dear All,

I opened up the SAP Management Console and started the S11adm on Solution manager (windows 2003 server). I found out that the Process List icon is always yellow. When I drill down further, I found out that the disp+work.exe is the problem and is retaining a yellow icon. The status is "Running, Message Server connection ok, Dialog Queue time: 0.00 sec, J2EE: Some process running". This only happened after the performed a restart. Prior to that all processes have a green icon. Secondaly I have installed HP Sim 5.3 also. So I am not sure why this showing yellow icon.

Does anyone have any idea about the problem and how to solve it?

Rajesh Gupta.

We want to be able to export and import web service end points.

Use cases, in case you are interested:

• We have web service end points in client 100. They get called from a Visual Composer application. We make a full client copy from 100 to 101 as a back-up. We test some stuff that cannot be undone in client 100. It goes wrong. We copy back client 101 to 100. All data is back to the previous state ... except the web service end points. Apparently they are simply not copied in client copies at all, which probably makes sense. So we need to export them before and import them again in the end. Having to manually recreate them is effort, and worse it requires adjusting the callers.
• We have several identical copies of a landscape, running in fenced virtual machines as linked clones, which means they also have the same host names. We try something in one landscape that involves the creation of web service end points. We can copy most content from one landscape to the other, e.g. enterprise service defintions from the ESR can be exported as files, the implementation (ABAP coding) of enterprise services can be taken over as transport requests (K and R files) and for Visual Composer applications we can upload export the workspace and upload it to a different server. Just the web service end points can only be taken over by manual recreation.

Search in SCN and on help.sap.com brings up nothing, I guess that there simply is no way of exporting web service end points, because our use cases are not so typical, and in most landscapes it does not make sense to transfer web service end points to another server, as it would have a different host name.

So we want to code our own export/import mechanism. Can someone give me some clues how to start? In which table (or across which tables) are web service end points stored? Which functions or class methods exist for reading or writing web service end points?

Monika.

Hi

Is there a way to activate web service via Transaction SOAMANAGER? I've created a service and endpoint for a webservice, however, in transaction SOAMANAGER, I  can find no place to activate the service, the state of the service always shows "inactive". Does anybody perhaps know how to fix this. I already checked transaction SICF, the webservice is activated there.

Many thanks guys.

I've posted a thread on the ABAP development.

I think it should be here.

<a href="http://Webservice proxy - ICM_HTTP_CONNECTION_FAILED">http://Webservice proxy - ICM_HTTP_CONNECTION_FAILED</a>

Any ideas on what is going on?

Thanks

Leonardo De Araujo

Hi,

          In my company they are planning to implement ARIS with SAP Solution Manager. I am trying to get some information regarding this. What are the benefits we get if we integrate ARIS with SAP solution manager and what are the pre-requisites to implement ARIS with SAP solution manager?

              If you have some information about this please share with me

Thanks and Regards,

Sreekala.

Hi fellow sdners gurus…  I have been reading threads about SAP SOA and ESB. 

I do not want to start a debate on wether XI is an ESB, but more of a statement to what is SAP ESB (if XI it is, then be it).

1) What is SAP ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) today (I could not find a clear answer to is)? 

2) Who uses this SAP ESB in production currently and what kind of environment (i.e. strictly SAP backend systems, or combination of various vendors’ backend systems)?

Can someone share some light on this topic?

As a reminder, an ESB is expected to exhibit the following characteristics (source Wikipedia):

•     It is usually operating-system and programming-language agnostic; for example, it should enable interoperability between Java and .NET applications.

•     It uses XML (eXtensible Markup Language) as the standard communication language.

•     It supports web-services standards.

•     It supports various MEPs (Message Exchange Patterns) (e.g., synchronous request/response, asynchronous request/response, send-and-forget, publish/subscribe).

•     It includes adapters for supporting integration with legacy systems, possibly based on standards such as JCA

•     It includes a standardized security model to authorize, authenticate and audit use of the ESB.

•     To facilitate the transformation of data formats and values, it includes transformation services (often via XSLT or XQuery) between the format of the sending application and the receiving application.

•     It includes validation against schemas for sending and receiving messages.

•     It can uniformly apply business rules, enriching messages from other sources, the splitting and combining of multiple messages and the handling of exceptions.

•     It can provide a unified abstraction across multiple layers

•     It can route or transform messages conditionally, based on a non-centralized policy (i.e. no central rules-engine needs to be present).

•     It is monitored for various SLA (Service Level Agreement) threshold message latencies and other SLA characteristics.

•     It (often) facilitates "service classes," responding appropriately to higher and lower priority users.

•     It supports queuing, holding messages if applications are temporarily unavailable.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Jean-Michel

Hi,

We are developing consumer proxies on ECC enhancement Package 4.

Could you please advice us on the mandatory Technical Configuration that is required in order to consume Web Services from external (non-SAP systems) Providers?

We are trying to test a consumer proxy which consumes a Web Service hosted on a third party system but we are getting the following error:

SOAP:1.023 SRT: Processing error in Internet Communication Framework: (""ICF Error when receiving the response: ICM_HTTP_

Thank you in advance.

Kind Regards

Dear All,

I opened up the SAP Management Console and started the S11adm on Solution manager (windows 2003 server). I found out that the Process List icon is always yellow. When I drill down further, I found out that the disp+work.exe is the problem and is retaining a yellow icon. The status is "Running, Message Server connection ok, Dialog Queue time: 0.00 sec, J2EE: Some process running". This only happened after the performed a restart. Prior to that all processes have a green icon. Secondaly I have installed HP Sim 5.3 also. So I am not sure why this showing yellow icon.

Does anyone have any idea about the problem and how to solve it?

Rajesh Gupta.

Hi All,

  How can I change soap header from consuming webservice? we are on SAP 7.00 SP15 (No XI or PI)

  I am able to call some methods that do not require the header for third party web service (.net).

  This is the header that sap generate:

<soap-env:Header>
 ....<n1:MessageID xmlns:n1="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing">uuid:4bdbf1ed-6c9c-1d52-e100-0000c0a8cf8a</n1:MessageID>  ....</soap-env:Header>

  This is the header that third party web service require.

  <soap:Header>    <MultiSpeakMsgHeader Version="string" UserID="string" Pwd="string">  </soap:Header>

Thanks,

Chaiphon

We want to be able to export and import web service end points.

Use cases, in case you are interested:

• We have web service end points in client 100. They get called from a Visual Composer application. We make a full client copy from 100 to 101 as a back-up. We test some stuff that cannot be undone in client 100. It goes wrong. We copy back client 101 to 100. All data is back to the previous state ... except the web service end points. Apparently they are simply not copied in client copies at all, which probably makes sense. So we need to export them before and import them again in the end. Having to manually recreate them is effort, and worse it requires adjusting the callers.
• We have several identical copies of a landscape, running in fenced virtual machines as linked clones, which means they also have the same host names. We try something in one landscape that involves the creation of web service end points. We can copy most content from one landscape to the other, e.g. enterprise service defintions from the ESR can be exported as files, the implementation (ABAP coding) of enterprise services can be taken over as transport requests (K and R files) and for Visual Composer applications we can upload export the workspace and upload it to a different server. Just the web service end points can only be taken over by manual recreation.

Search in SCN and on help.sap.com brings up nothing, I guess that there simply is no way of exporting web service end points, because our use cases are not so typical, and in most landscapes it does not make sense to transfer web service end points to another server, as it would have a different host name.

So we want to code our own export/import mechanism. Can someone give me some clues how to start? In which table (or across which tables) are web service end points stored? Which functions or class methods exist for reading or writing web service end points?

Monika.