[rabbitmq-discuss] Integration of SAP XI with RabbitMQ

[Rishi Dev]

Hi Lynton, Alexis,

I must thank you both for your kind gesture of help.
I will go through the details based on your inputs along with my SAP XI
experts here, and will try to come back with some updates on my side ASAP.
And I sure will wait for more suggestions from our team here.

Thank you,
Rishi

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Alexis Richardson <alexis at rabbitmq.com>wrote:

> Thanks very much Lynton!
>
> I assume you meant RPC not RFC ;-)
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Lynton Grice <lynton.grice at ls-cs.com>
> wrote:
> >  Hi Rishi,
> >
> > I am a SAP XI consultant in Johannesburg and also play around with
> RabbitMQ
> > when I get a chance.
> >
> > Your question is very interesting, and one that I have wondered about
> > before. Obviously the long term approach would be to develop a sender /
> > receiver Java adapter for SAP XI / PI to handle the AMQP communication,
> but
> > the disadvantage here is that adapter development can be tricky and has a
> > relatively steep learning curve. But if you have the skills I say go for
> it.
> >
> > I have not been following the current "adapters" for RabbitMQ, but I
> would
> > imagine that putting some sort of RESTful / HTTP interface using
> something
> > like MochiWeb would be pretty simple to talk to from a SAP XI HTTP
> adapter.
> > I know this is not perfect but an option nevertheless.
> >
> > Sending messages from RabbitMQ to SAP XI would be very easy from a proof
> of
> > concept point of view. As you already know you would simple build up the
> URL
> > to post the XML message to using the correct channel, sender service,
> sender
> > interface etc in the
> >
> > http://
> <server>:<port>/XISOAPAdapter/MessageServlet?channel=:<service>:<sender_channle>&version=3.0&Sender.Service=<service>&Interface=<namespace><interface_name>
> >
> > Writing an "adapter" for RabbitMQ that takes messages off a queue and
> sends
> > them to a configurable URL like the one above should not be too hard.
> >
> > A question for you: What format would the messages be in on the RabbitMQ
> > queue? Already in "SAP XI XML" format?
> >
> > The bottomline is their are many ways one could do this, if you had to
> ask
> > me my choice I would choose between the following 2:
> >
> > 1. Create a custom Java adapter for both the sender AMQP and receiver
> AMQP
> > adapter
> >
> > 2. On the next option I speak from experience in doing it and it works
> > great:
> >        - Create an RFC Server in C / C++. This could be called from SAP
> XI
> > and pass the messages to it, from there you would simple use some
> RabbitMQ
> > API to send the messages to RabbitMQ
> >        - For sending messages to SAP I would just post the message
> straight
> > to SAP XI using something like the URL above. You could easily write such
> a
> > HTTP client in Erlang (or Python etc) and "plug it in as an adapter" to
> > RabbitMQ.
> >
> > Let me brainstorm it a little more, but feel free to email me and we can
> > discuss this more to get the best answer.
> >
> > Lynton
> >
> >
> > On 11/07/2011 18:05, Alexis Richardson wrote:
> >>
> >> Rishi
> >>
> >> I have bcc'd someone who may be able to advise you.
> >>
> >> alexis
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:21 PM, RishiDev<rishdev at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> To certain extent I believe the question should go to SAPXI community.
> >>> And we have already raised a ticket with them, but still I wanted to
> >>> quickly check if someone from our RabbitMQ community has some tips to
> >>> share.
> >>>
> >>> On Jul 8, 1:36 pm, RishiDev<rish... at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> Our organization has SAP XI 7.0 systems which sends various messages
> >>>> to other systems across the enterprise.
> >>>> For better performance, reliability and message compression etc
> >>>> abilities we are trying to move from ActiveMQ to RabbitMQ. Having SAP
> >>>> XI talk to ActiveMQ was easy by using JMS type communication channel
> >>>> configured in XI. I want to learn from the group, what is best&
> >>>> recommended approach for SAPXI to Rabbit integration.
> >>>>
> >>>> I know that we can use QPID (I haven't tried yet though) and get a JMS
> >>>> kind of integration between SAPXI and Rabbit, but I would love it, if
> >>>> we can have a pure AMQP base communication and avoid JMS.
> >>>>
> >>>> I will appreciate any help for what approach and how (to follow) to
> >>>> integrate SAPXI with Rabbit.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thank you.
> >>>> Rishi
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