Table of Contents
Dear Reader
Notes on Usage
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Getting Started
1 Introduction to SAP Process Orchestration
1.1 Historical Overview and Evolution
1.1.1 SAP Process Integration
1.1.2 SAP Composition Environment
1.1.3 SAP Process Orchestration
1.1.4 SAP Process Orchestration 7.5 Highlights
1.2 SAP Process Orchestration Components
1.2.1 SAP Process Integration
1.2.2 Business Process Management
1.2.3 Business Rules Management
1.3 Architectural Overview and Positioning
1.3.1 SAP Process Orchestration Positioning
1.3.2 SAP NetWeaver Application Server for Java: System Architecture
1.3.3 SAP NetWeaver AS Java System Logical Layers
1.4 Installation Options
1.4.1 Case 1: SAP Process Integration Dual Stack
1.4.2 Case 2: SAP PI Dual Stack and SAP Composition Environment in Separate Installations
1.4.3 Case 3: SAP PI Single Stack and SAP Composition Environment in Separate Installations
1.4.4 Case 4: SAP PO—SAP PI and SAP Composition Environment in a Single Installation
1.5 Summary
2 Administration and Development Tools
2.1 SAP Process Orchestration Tools
2.1.1 Enterprise Services Repository
2.1.2 Integration Directory
2.1.3 System Landscape Directory
2.1.4 Configuration and Monitoring
2.2 SAP NetWeaver Administrator
2.2.1 Availability and Performance
2.2.2 Operations
2.2.3 Configuration
2.2.4 Troubleshooting
2.2.5 SOA
2.3 SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio
2.3.1 Use and Download
2.3.2 SAP Process Orchestration and SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio
2.4 Summary
Part II Advanced Adapter Engine Extended (AEX)
3 Configuring the System Landscape Directory
3.1 System Landscape Directory Components and Features
3.1.1 Landscape
3.1.2 Software Catalog
3.1.3 Development
3.2 Registering Systems to the System Landscape Directory
3.2.1 Connecting to ABAP-Based Systems
3.2.2 Connecting to Java-Based Systems
3.2.3 Connecting to Other Systems
3.3 Administration of the System Landscape Directory
3.3.1 Server
3.3.2 Data and Content
3.4 System Landscape Directory Strategies
3.4.1 Manual Export and Import of Data
3.4.2 Automatic Bridge Forwarding
3.4.3 Full Automatic Synchronization
3.5 Tips and Tricks
3.5.1 Naming Convention
3.5.2 Keeping Your System Landscape Directory Catalogs Up to Date
3.5.3 Self-Registration of a Java-Based System with the SLD
3.5.4 Configuring Data Suppliers from One SLD to Another
3.5.5 Manual Export and Import of Data
3.5.6 Connecting the SLD to CTS+ to Facilitate the Export and Import of SLD Data
3.6 Exercise: Configuring the System Landscape Directory
3.6.1 Exercise Description
3.6.2 Exercise Solution Approach
3.6.3 Exercise Step-by-Step Solution
3.7 Summary
4 Working with the Enterprise Services Repository and Registry
4.1 Basic ES Repository Technical Concepts
4.1.1 Functional Blocks
4.1.2 First Steps in the Enterprise Services Repository
4.1.3 Service Interface
4.1.4 Integration Patterns: Stateful and Stateless Communication
4.1.5 Asynchronous versus Synchronous
4.1.6 Quality of Service
4.2 Design Objects
4.2.1 Software Component Versions
4.2.2 Folders
4.2.3 Namespaces
4.2.4 Mappings
4.2.5 Process Integration Scenario
4.2.6 Actions
4.3 Data Types and Message Types
4.3.1 Data Types
4.3.2 External Definitions
4.3.3 Message Type
4.3.4 Additional Design Objects
4.4 Exercise: Working with the ES Repository and Registry
4.4.1 Exercise Description
4.4.2 Exercise Solution Approach
4.4.3 Exercise Step-by-Step Solution
4.5 Summary
5 Working with the Integration Directory
5.1 Integration Directory Overview
5.2 Collaboration Profiles
5.2.1 Party
5.2.2 Communication Component
5.2.3 Communication Channel
5.2.4 Communication Component without a Party
5.3 Adapter Types
5.3.1 Technical Adapters to Enable Communication with SAP or Third-Party Systems
5.3.2 Application Adapters to Enable Communication with an SAP System
5.3.3 SAP Industry Adapters
5.3.4 Third-Party-Developed Adapters
5.4 Integrated Configuration
5.4.1 Inbound Processing
5.4.2 Receiver
5.4.3 Receiver Interfaces
5.4.4 Outbound Processing
5.5 The XI Message Protocol
5.6 Configuration Scenario
5.6.1 Creating a Configuration Scenario from Scratch (Manually)
5.6.2 Creating a Configuration Scenario from a Model
5.7 Value Mapping
5.7.1 If/Else Logic
5.7.2 Fixed Values
5.7.3 Value Mapping
5.8 Business-to-Business Integration
5.8.1 Business-to-Business On Premise
5.8.2 Business-to-Business Managed Services
5.8.3 Trading Partner Management
5.9 Axis Framework
5.10 Representational State Transfer Adapter
5.11 Message Alerting
5.11.1 Alert Rule Overview
5.11.2 Creating an Alert Rule
5.11.3 Editing or Deleting a Rule
5.12 Publish the Service in the Services Registry
5.13 Integration Directory Programming Interface (Directory API)
5.14 Exercise: Working with the Integration Directory
5.14.1 Exercise Description
5.14.2 Exercise Solution Approach
5.14.3 Exercise Step-by-Step Solution
5.15 Summary
6 Building an Integration Flow
6.1 SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio
6.1.1 Installing SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio
6.1.2 Setting Up SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio
6.1.3 Enterprise Integration Patterns and User-Defined Templates
6.2 Basics of Creating and Configuring an Integration Flow
6.2.1 Creating an iFlow
6.2.2 Configuring an iFlow
6.3 iFlow Example
6.3.1 Creating Products, Software Components, Business Systems, and Technical Systems in the SLD
6.3.2 Importing SLD Objects into the ES Repository in SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio
6.3.3 Create Enterprise Service Repository Objects
6.3.4 Create Directory Objects: Import Business Systems and Create iFlows
6.3.5 Testing the iFlow Scenario
6.3.6 Monitoring the Scenario
6.4 New Features of the Process Integration Designer
6.4.1 Export Objects from the Integration Designer
6.4.2 Automatically Deploy after Import
6.4.3 Version History and Deployment Status
6.5 Supporting Multiple Senders for Your iFlow
6.6 Exercise: Building an Integration Flow
6.6.1 Exercise Description
6.6.2 Exercise Solution Approach
6.6.3 Exercise Step-by-Step Solution
6.7 Summary
7 Administration and Monitoring in AEX
7.1 Administration
7.1.1 Central Administration Tool
7.1.2 SAP NetWeaver Administrator
7.1.3 SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java
7.1.4 SAP Process Integration Monitoring (pimon)
7.1.5 SAP Management Console
7.1.6 Config Tool
7.1.7 Administration Using Telnet
7.2 Monitoring
7.2.1 SAP NetWeaver Administrator
7.2.2 SAP Process Integration Local Monitoring
7.2.3 SAP PI Central Monitoring with SAP Solution Manager
7.2.4 Message Retention
7.2.5 User-Defined Message Search
7.3 Troubleshooting
7.3.1 Configuring Log and Traces
7.3.2 Using the Log Viewer
7.4 Summary
8 Migrating Interfaces from SAP PI Dual Stack to SAP PO
8.1 Migration Strategies
8.2 Migrating System Landscape Directory Content
8.2.1 Products
8.2.2 Software Components
8.2.3 Technical System
8.2.4 Business System
8.3 Migrating Enterprise Services Repository Content
8.3.1 Exporting Objects
8.3.2 Importing Objects
8.4 Migrating Integration Directory Content
8.4.1 Manually
8.4.2 Using the Migration Tool
8.5 Summary
Part III Business Process Management and Composition
9 Introduction to SAP BPM and BPMN 2.0
9.1 Managing Business Processes
9.2 SAP Business Process Management
9.2.1 SAP BPM versus SAP Business Workflow
9.2.2 BPM before SAP BPM
9.2.3 SAP BPM Main Components
9.3 Business Process Model and Notation 2.0
9.3.1 Swimlanes
9.3.2 Artifacts
9.3.3 Flow Objects
9.3.4 Connections
9.4 Summary
10 Creating Your First SAP BPM Process
10.1 SAP BPM Positioning and Development Environment
10.1.1 Positioning
10.1.2 Setting Up Your Development Environment
10.2 Creating and Modeling an SAP BPM Process
10.2.1 Demonstration Scenario
10.2.2 Building an SAP BPM Process: Overview
10.2.3 SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio Perspective Concept
10.2.4 Create a Project in SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio
10.2.5 Creating a Process for Your BPMN
10.2.6 Creating a BPMN Model
10.3 Configuring the BPMN Model
10.3.1 Data Objects
10.3.2 Creating Data Structures
10.3.3 Importing XSD and WSDL
10.3.4 Process Pool Properties
10.3.5 BPMN Flow Objects
10.4 Flow Objects
10.4.1 Events
10.4.2 Tasks
10.4.3 Activities
10.4.4 Gateways
10.4.5 Artifacts
10.5 Build and Deploy Your Process
10.5.1 Steps for Building a Process
10.5.2 Steps for Deploying a Process
10.6 Advanced Mapping
10.6.1 Mappings
10.6.2 Options in Mapping Assignment
10.6.3 Automatic Mapping
10.6.4 Custom Functions
10.7 Implementing Error Handling
10.8 Combining SAP BPM and the AEX
10.8.1 Message from SAP BPM to the AEX
10.8.2 Message from the AEX to SAP BPM
10.8.3 Leverage an ES Repository Mapping in SAP BPM
10.9 Exercise: Creating an SAP Business Process Management Process
10.9.1 Exercise Description
10.9.2 Exercise Solution Approach
10.9.3 Exercise Step-by-Step Solution
10.10 Summary
11 Applying Advanced SAP BPM Concepts and Extensions
11.1 Service-Oriented Architecture Configuration
11.1.1 Configuration for an Automated Activity
11.1.2 Configuration for a Start Event or Intermediary Event
11.2 Testing and Running an SAP BPM Process
11.2.1 Process Repository Overview
11.2.2 Process Testing
11.3 Custom Enterprise Java Bean Functions
11.3.1 Create EJB and EAR Development Components
11.3.2 Create the Enterprise Java Bean
11.3.3 Build and Deploy
11.3.4 Create a New Enterprise Java Bean Function
11.4 Using the Claim Check Pattern
11.4.1 Create Interfaces
11.4.2 Create Mappings
11.4.3 Configure the Channel
11.4.4 Retrieve the Large Message from SAP BPM
11.4.5 Update the Status of the Large Message from SAP BPM
11.5 SAP BPM Application Programming Interface
11.5.1 Prerequisite to Using the SAP BPM API
11.5.2 Implementation Aspects and Examples
11.6 SAP Business Process Management OData
11.6.1 OData Services for Tasks and Task Data
11.6.2 Error Handling
11.7 Using the Push API to Access SAP BPM Lifecycle Events
11.7.1 Accessing Events through a Message Driven Bean
11.7.2 Accessing Events through a Java Message Service API
11.8 Debugging and Troubleshooting SAP BPM Processes
11.8.1 Place Breakpoints in the Process
11.8.2 Add a Debug Configuration
11.9 Tuning SAP BPM-Related Performance Parameters
11.10 Best Practices for Your SAP BPM Application
11.10.1 BPMN, Mapping, and Parallelism
11.10.2 Task Related
11.10.3 Gateways
11.10.4 Looping
11.10.5 Data Object
11.10.6 Correlation
11.10.7 Error Handling
11.10.8 Housekeeping
11.11 Exercise: Applying Advanced SAP BPM Concepts and Extensions
11.11.1 Exercise Solution Approach
11.11.2 Exercise Step-by-Step Solution
11.12 Summary
12 Combining SAP BPM and UI Technologies
12.1 Web Dynpro Java User Interface Technology
12.1.1 Generating a Web Dynpro User Interface
12.1.2 Post-Configuration Steps
12.2 Integrating SAPUI5 into an SAP BPM Process
12.2.1 SAPUI5 Technology Platform
12.2.2 Model-View-Controller Concept
12.2.3 SAPUI5 Components
12.2.4 Other SAPUI5 Concepts
12.2.5 Integration Steps
12.3 Other User Interface Technologies
12.3.1 Visual Composer
12.3.2 Adobe Offline Forms
12.3.3 Support for Custom User Interface Technologies
12.4 Summary
13 SAP Business Rules Management
13.1 How Business Rules Work
13.2 SAP Business Rules Management
13.2.1 Rules Composer
13.2.2 Rules Manager
13.2.3 Rules Engine
13.3 Modeling Business Rules with Rules Composer
13.3.1 Create the Rules Composer Development Component
13.3.2 Adding Context to the Rules
13.3.3 Creating a Ruleset
13.3.4 Flow Ruleset
13.4 Testing Business Rules
13.5 Best Practices for Modeling Business Rules
13.5.1 Separate Decision Logic from Other Types of Logic
13.5.2 Reuse and Extend before Building
13.6 Exercise: SAP Business Rules Management
13.6.1 Exercise Solution Approach
13.6.2 Exercise Step-by-Step Solution
13.7 Summary
14 Implementing Java Proxies
14.1 Java Proxy Concept and Considerations
14.2 Implementation Approaches
14.2.1 Outside-In Approach
14.2.2 Inside-Out Approach
14.3 Technical Implementation
14.3.1 Development Environment
14.3.2 Developing a Server Java Proxy
14.3.3 Developing a Client Java Proxy
14.4 Building an Orchestration
14.5 Exercise: Implementing Java Proxies
14.5.1 Exercise Solution Approach
14.5.2 Exercise Step-by-Step Solution
14.6 Summary
15 Administration and Monitoring Message Processing in SAP BPM
15.1 Monitoring
15.1.1 SAP Business Process Management System Overview
15.1.2 Process Repository
15.1.3 Process Management
15.1.4 Task Management
15.1.5 SAP BPM Inbox
15.1.6 Business Logs
15.1.7 SAP BPM Action Monitor
15.1.8 Process Troubleshooting
15.1.9 Rules Business Logs
15.1.10 SAP BPM Analytics Dashboard
15.2 Administration
15.2.1 Process Data Archiving
15.2.2 Log Viewer
15.3 Summary
16 Migrating ccBPM from SAP PI to SAP PO
16.1 Motivation for Migration
16.2 Migration Approach
16.2.1 Analyze the As-Is Integration Processes
16.2.2 Translate and Redesign
16.2.3 Export and Reuse Enterprise Services Repository Objects
16.2.4 Migrate and Adapt Configuration Scenarios
16.3 Recommendations
16.4 Summary
Part IV Advanced Concepts
17 SAP Cloud Platform Integration for SAP PO
17.1 Enable Cloud Integration Content in SAP PO
17.2 Reusing Cloud Integration Content
17.2.1 Download Cloud Integration Content
17.2.2 Deploy the Cloud Integration Content
17.3 Monitoring
17.3.1 Monitoring the Integration Gateway Component
17.3.2 Monitoring Messages Related to the Deployment of Cloud Integration Content
17.4 Summary
18 Additional Components for SAP Process Orchestration
18.1 Component Model
18.1.1 Product
18.1.2 Software Components
18.1.3 Development Component
18.1.4 Dependencies among Development Components
18.1.5 Public Parts
18.2 SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure
18.2.1 Change Management Services
18.2.2 Design Time Repository
18.2.3 Component Build Service
18.3 SAP Composite Application Framework
18.3.1 Design Time Aspects
18.3.2 Runtime Aspects
18.4 Service Registry
18.5 Enhanced Change and Transport System
18.5.1 SAP PI-Related Transports
18.5.2 Transports for Non-SAP PI Java Objects
18.6 Exercise: Create an SWCV
18.6.1 Exercise Solution Approach
18.6.2 Exercise Step-by-Step Solution
18.7 Summary
19 Landscape Setup Considerations
19.1 Java System Configuration
19.1.1 Java Sizing and Setup Considerations
19.1.2 Java System Architecture
19.1.3 Java Central Services
19.1.4 Java Parameter Tuning
19.2 Handling Certificates
19.2.1 Certificate Key Storage
19.2.2 Encryption of Message Content on Database Level
19.3 Housekeeping
19.3.1 Archiving
19.3.2 Deletion
19.3.3 Restarting
19.3.4 Recovery
19.4 Monitoring
19.4.1 Runtime Workbench
19.4.2 Wily Enterprise Manager
19.4.3 SAP Management Console
19.4.4 SAP Solution Manager Monitoring
19.4.5 Tracing
19.4.6 JVMMON
19.5 Summary
A Orchestration Outlook
A.1 SAP API Management
A.2 SAP Cloud Platform Integration
A.2.1 Features and Facts Overview of SAP Cloud Platform Integration
A.2.2 Development Guide: Getting Started
A.2.3 Monitoring
A.3 The Integration Advisor
A.3.1 Interface Specifications: Advice from the Advisor
A.3.2 Mapping Guideline
A.3.3 Runtime
A.3.4 Testing
A.4 SAP Cloud Platform Workflow as a Service
A.4.1 Workflow Service
A.4.2 Workflow Modeling
A.4.3 SAP Cloud Platform Business Rules
A.4.4 Workflow Tasks Management
A.4.5 Integration
B The Authors
Index
Service Pages
Legal Notes