A Business Application Programming Interface is a precisely defined interface providing access process and data in Business Applications Systems Such as SAP.
What are the Benefits of BAPI
- Can be used in diverse languages / Development Environments(ABAP, Visual Basic, Java, C++, etc.)
- Can be called from diverse platforms (COM, CORBA, Unix)
- Reduced development cost
- Reduced maintenance cost
- “Best-of-both-worlds” approach
- Rich functionality of the R/3 system
- User-specific front-ends
Steps involved in Creation of BAPI’s
- Defining BAPI Data structures in SE11
- Program a RFC enabled BAPI function module for each method
- Create a Business object for the BAPI in the BOR
- Documentation of the BAPI
- Generate ALE interface for asynchronous BAPIs
- Generate and release
Need more info? Download the 40 Page document on working with BAPI’s -> Working with BAPI\'s (166)
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