iWay Application Adapter for SAP ERP (SAP JCo 3.x) supports the following communication types:

• Outbound to SAP (Adapter is client):
  • Business API (BAPI). Synchronous Request/Response
  • Remote Function Module. Synchronous Request/Response
  • IDoc. Synchronous Transactional/Asynchronous Processing
• Inbound from SAP (Adapter is server):
  • Remote Function Module. Synchronous event/reply
  • IDoc. Asynchronous Processing/Synchronous Transactional

  Note: BAPI events are internal to the SAP server, use RFM events for outbound processing.

Note: All communications through the SAP JCo are synchronous, but processing may differ between types and direction.