AS2 & OFTPS

Question

Hi All,
Could any one please clarify
1.The differnces between AS2 & OFTPS adapters and in which scenarios we prefer OFTPS compared to AS2
2.If we are using AS2 sender adapter to pick data two different mail boxes on different servers, Is there a possibility to pick data from two mail boxes from one sender adapter. I'm sure that we can pick data from two or three mail boxes from same server.
Do we need to configure two sender adapters if they are on two different servers.
Cheers,
Smith

Answer 1

Hi,
1.The differnces between AS2 & OFTPS adapters and in which scenarios we prefer OFTPS compared to AS2
-->AS2 are the third party adapters provided by Seeburger which is used to integrate EDI scenarios.
Seeburger EDI Adapter provides an EDI solution on internet via HTTP or AS2 to replace the expensive VAN. It provides some pre-built mappings for IDOC to ANSI X12(810,850,855,856 etc.,) and Idoc to EDIFACT(ORDERS,DESADV,INVOIC etc.,) and has the ability to build your own. These pre-defined mappings transform the IDOC-XML to EDI-XML format.
In addition, Seeburger provides adapters like AS2,FTP(EDI specific) and so on to route these EDI messages to external EDI Partners.
This is not possible with OFTPS. OFTPS is restircted for for FTP services only. I am not sure about OFTPS as have never come across it. Its something like EDI specific FTP adapter rarely used. for FTP services you could use AS2 as well as OFTPS also.
But as far as I know AS2 adapter is extensively used.
2.If we are using AS2 sender adapter to pick data two different mail boxes on different servers, Is there a possibility to pick data from two mail boxes from one sender adapter. I'm sure that we can pick data from two or three mail boxes from same server.
Do we need to configure two sender adapters if they are on two different servers.
Here I think you could use the same adapter to read data from multiple mail boxes but I don't think we could do this for different servers. As the server details are provided as the fixed one we can't chage it at runtime.
Please go through the following links which clearly explains what you want and it also helps you in understanding the same in depth:
http://www.seeburger.com
http://www.seeburger.com/fileadmin/com/pdf/AS2_General_Overview.pdf
http://www.seeburger.it/fileadmin/it/pdf/2005_04_sapphire_Ferrero_transcript.pdf
http://www.seeburger.com/fileadmin/com/pdf/SEEBURGER_SAP_Adapter_engl.pdf
http://www.seeburger.com/fileadmin/com/pdf/Butler_Group_SEEBURGER_Technology_Audit.pdf
http://www.sap.com/france/company/events/2006/02-01-Automotive-Seeburger.pdf
http://h41123.www4.hp.com/presentations/ISUG/XISeeBurger.ppt
http://www.sap.com/asia/company/events/nwtechdays/presentation/australia-slides/Pre-Built_Integration.pdf
B2B(EDI) Integration using SAP Netweaver XI and Seeburger AS2 Adapter
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/00f9cdf5-d812-2a10-03b4-aff3bbf792bf
Thanks
Swarup
Edited by: Swarup Sawant on Feb 27, 2008 12:40 PM