Is SAP Adapter(RFC, IDOC) dead?

Hi
SAP plan to create ESA services for all SAP applications.
But has RFC/IDOC technology future? What do you think?
Companies will not need expensive SAP Adapter more
and XI will not have an advantage in this case.
It will be enough to have some lightweight and cheap ESB with BPEL engine.

Denis
It is not that if we are going to have a new product / service in market then the old technology will not be used. Take an example of Business connector which is there before years but still is being used eventhough XI is present in the market. Still SAP says that it will support but they ask to migrate to the new technology to keep pace with the growing market. There are lot of companies who are using SAP with RFC/IDOC technology. Hence eventhough SAP plans to create ESA services it still will support the existing technology.
---Mohan

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I'm sending some IDOC to sap from the 3rd party. I have to use RFC (TRFC call) adapter as sender and IDOC as receiver adapter.
Can you please suggest me how to configure teh sender side.
Regards....

>
santosh nayak wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I'm sending some IDOC to sap from the 3rd party. I have to use RFC (TRFC call) adapter as sender and IDOC as receiver adapter.
> Can you please suggest me how to configure teh sender side.
>
> Regards....
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/ab/bdb13b00ae793be10000000a11402f/content.htm
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/2e/96fd3f2d14e869e10000000a155106/frameset.htm
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Hi,
The ECC's business system has Technical System,Client number and Logical System Name.
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This really happens when you receive untyped message from your SAP System . Its been well described in below link
Receiving Idocs - getting the raw idoc data
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About EOIO in qRFCs, actually this is quite a polemic topic.
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But I'm also not sure that this will guarantee EOIO end-to-end (possibly not...)
Good luck.
Regards,
Henrique.

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