Hi Lynton, Alexis,<br><br>I must thank you both for your kind gesture of help.<br>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.<br>
And I sure will wait for more suggestions from our team here.<br><br>Thank you,<br>Rishi<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Alexis Richardson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexis@rabbitmq.com">alexis@rabbitmq.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Thanks very much Lynton!<br>
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I assume you meant RPC not RFC ;-)<br>
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On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Lynton Grice <<a href="mailto:lynton.grice@ls-cs.com">lynton.grice@ls-cs.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> �Hi Rishi,<br>
><br>
> I am a SAP XI consultant in Johannesburg and also play around with RabbitMQ<br>
> when I get a chance.<br>
><br>
> Your question is very interesting, and one that I have wondered about<br>
> before. Obviously the long term approach would be to develop a sender /<br>
> receiver Java adapter for SAP XI / PI to handle the AMQP communication, but<br>
> the disadvantage here is that adapter development can be tricky and has a<br>
> relatively steep learning curve. But if you have the skills I say go for it.<br>
><br>
> I have not been following the current "adapters" for RabbitMQ, but I would<br>
> imagine that putting some sort of RESTful / HTTP interface using something<br>
> like MochiWeb would be pretty simple to talk to from a SAP XI HTTP adapter.<br>
> I know this is not perfect but an option nevertheless.<br>
><br>
> Sending messages from RabbitMQ to SAP XI would be very easy from a proof of<br>
> concept point of view. As you already know you would simple build up the URL<br>
> to post the XML message to using the correct channel, sender service, sender<br>
> interface etc in the<br>
><br>
> http://<server>:<port>/XISOAPAdapter/MessageServlet?channel=:<service>:<sender_channle>&version=3.0&Sender.Service=<service>&Interface=<namespace><interface_name><br>
><br>
> Writing an "adapter" for RabbitMQ that takes messages off a queue and sends<br>
> them to a configurable URL like the one above should not be too hard.<br>
><br>
> A question for you: What format would the messages be in on the RabbitMQ<br>
> queue? Already in "SAP XI XML" format?<br>
><br>
> The bottomline is their are many ways one could do this, if you had to ask<br>
> me my choice I would choose between the following 2:<br>
><br>
> 1. Create a custom Java adapter for both the sender AMQP and receiver AMQP<br>
> adapter<br>
><br>
> 2. On the next option I speak from experience in doing it and it works<br>
> great:<br>
> � � � �- Create an RFC Server in C / C++. This could be called from SAP XI<br>
> and pass the messages to it, from there you would simple use some RabbitMQ<br>
> API to send the messages to RabbitMQ<br>
> � � � �- For sending messages to SAP I would just post the message straight<br>
> to SAP XI using something like the URL above. You could easily write such a<br>
> HTTP client in Erlang (or Python etc) and "plug it in as an adapter" to<br>
> RabbitMQ.<br>
><br>
> Let me brainstorm it a little more, but feel free to email me and we can<br>
> discuss this more to get the best answer.<br>
><br>
> Lynton<br>
><br>
><br>
> On 11/07/2011 18:05, Alexis Richardson wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Rishi<br>
>><br>
>> I have bcc'd someone who may be able to advise you.<br>
>><br>
>> alexis<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:21 PM, RishiDev<<a href="mailto:rishdev@gmail.com">rishdev@gmail.com</a>> �wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> To certain extent I believe the question should go to SAPXI community.<br>
>>> And we have already raised a ticket with them, but still I wanted to<br>
>>> quickly check if someone from our RabbitMQ community has some tips to<br>
>>> share.<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Jul 8, 1:36 pm, RishiDev<<a href="mailto:rish...@gmail.com">rish...@gmail.com</a>> �wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Hi,<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Our organization has SAP XI 7.0 systems which sends various messages<br>
>>>> to other systems across the enterprise.<br>
>>>> For better performance, reliability and message compression etc<br>
>>>> abilities we are trying to move from ActiveMQ to RabbitMQ. Having SAP<br>
>>>> XI talk to ActiveMQ was easy by using JMS type communication channel<br>
>>>> configured in XI. I want to learn from the group, what is best&<br>
>>>> recommended approach for SAPXI to Rabbit integration.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I know that we can use QPID (I haven't tried yet though) and get a JMS<br>
>>>> kind of integration between SAPXI and Rabbit, but I would love it, if<br>
>>>> we can have a pure AMQP base communication and avoid JMS.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I will appreciate any help for what approach and how (to follow) to<br>
>>>> integrate SAPXI with Rabbit.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Thank you.<br>
>>>> Rishi<br>
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