Difference between Idoc Adapter and Proxies..

HI XI Guru's,
I am new to XI, I wanted to know what is the difference between Idoc adpater and proxies. When and what should be preffered ?
Warm Regards,
- Priya R

idocs which mean - (intermediate documents) are standard document formats which sap systems use to store as well send data from one system to another. If this is the format in which data has to received by R/3 then you will use idoc adapter in XI. idoc adapter can be used to communicate between systems is with SAP release higher than 3.1.X. Communication using idoc adapter is always asynchronous.
proxies are available for communication between SAP systems with version WAS 6.20 and above. They support both synchronous as well as asynchronous modes of communication. Generally when you are looking at developing new application using WAS 6.20 and above then you can design the interfaces for this new applications in SAP XI and generate the required code for these interfaces automatically in SAP systems using transaction code - SPROXY in the case of ABAP Proxy and in the case of Java proxies the code is generated by SAP XI system itself. You only have to implement these interfaces in your new application. So, basically you have to only worry about building the application and the interface part is taken care by XI itself. you can also look at using proxies when data has to be inserted or fetched from custom/standard tables in R/3 using XI.
,idoc adapter can be used for commuincation between ABAP stacks only but Proxy can be used for both ABAP as well JAVA stack.

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><i>so i cant use apply control rec values from payload.........</i>
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