Fuse SAP Transactional RFC Server Endpoint Quick Start

Demonstrates the sap-trfc-server component running in a Fuse camel runtime.

Author: William Collins - Fuse Team
Level: Intermediate
Technologies: Fuse, SAP, Camel, Blueprint
Summary: This quickstart demonstrates how to configure and use the sap-trfc-server component in a Fuse environment to handle a remote function call from SAP. This component handles a remote function call from SAP using the Transactional RFC (tRFC) protocol.
Target Product: Fuse
Source: http://github.com/punkhorn/sap-quickstarts/

What is it?

This quick start shows how to integrate Apache Camel with SAP using the JBoss Fuse SAP Transactional Remote Function Call Server Camel component. This component and its endpoints should be used in cases where the sending SAP system requires AT-MOST-ONCE delivery of its requests to a Camel route. To accomplish this the sending SAP system generates a transcation ID (tid) which accompanies every request it sends to the component's endpoints. The sending SAP system will first check with the component whether a given tid has been received by it before sending a series of requests associated with the tid. The component will check a list of received tids it maintains, record the sent tid if it is not in that list and then respond to the sending SAP system with whether the tid had already been recorded. The sending SAP system will only then send the series of requests if the tid has not been previously recorded. This enables a sending SAP system to reliably send a series of requests once to a camel route.

This quick start handles requests from SAP for the CreateFromData method of the FlightCustomer BAPI to create flight customer records in the Flight Data Application. The route of this quick start simply mocks the behavior of this method by logging the requests it receives. The sap-trfc-server endpoint at the beginning of the route consumes a request from SAP and its contents is placed into the message body of the exchange's message. The request is then logged to the console.

NOTE: The tRFC protocol used by this component is asynchronous and does not return a response and thus the endpoints of this component do not return a response message.

NOTE: The sending SAP system will send a request using the tRFC protocol to the compponent's endpoint only when invoking the endpoint with the IN BACKGROUND TASK option within SAP. These calls are stored in the SAP database and are not sent until the local transaction within SAP is committed.

NOTE: If the endpoints of this component receive a request from SAP using the sRFC protocol, the request will be processed as in the JBoss Fuse SAP Synchronous Remote Function Call Server Camel component however a response will not be sent back to the calling SAP system.

NOTE: This component does not guarantee that a series of requests sent through its endpoints are handled and processed in the receiving Camel route in the same order that they were sent. The delivery and processing order of these requests may differ on the receiving Camel route due to communication errors and resends of a document list. This component only guarantees that each request is processed AT-MOST-ONCE. To guarantee the delivery and processing order of a series of requests from SAP it is incumbent upon the sending SAP system to serialize its requests to an outbound queue when sending them to this component to achieve IN-ORDER delivery and processing guarantees.

In studying this quick start you will learn:

How to define a Camel route containing the JBoss Fuse SAP Transactional Remote Function Call Server Camel component using the Blueprint XML syntax.
How to use the JBoss Fuse SAP Transactional Remote Function Call Server Camel component to handle requests from SAP.
How to configure connections used by the component.
How to configure the Fuse runtime environment in order to deploy the JBoss Fuse SAP Transactional Remote Function Call Server Camel component.

For more information see:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_fuse/7.0/html-single/apache_camel_component_reference/#SAP for more information about the JBoss Fuse SAP Camel components
https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-fuse for more information about using JBoss Fuse

System requirements

Before building and running this quick start you will need:

Maven 3.1.1 or higher
JDK 1.8
A JBoss Fuse 7.0.0 container
SAP JCo3 and IDoc3 libraries (sapjco3.jar, sapidoc3.jar and JCo native library for your OS platform)
SAP instance with Flight Data Application setup.

Configuring the Quickstart for your environment

To configure the quick start for your environment:

Deploy the JCo3 library jar and native library (for your platform) and IDoc3 library jar to the lib folder of your JBoss Fuse installation.
In your JBoss Fuse installation, copy the org.osgi.framework.system.packages.extra property from the config properties file (etc/config.properties) to the custom properties file (etc/custom.properties) and append the following packages to the copied property:

org.osgi.framework.system.packages.extra = \

... \
com.sap.conn.idoc, \
com.sap.conn.idoc.jco, \
com.sap.conn.jco, \
com.sap.conn.jco.ext, \
com.sap.conn.jco.monitor, \
com.sap.conn.jco.rt, \
com.sap.conn.jco.server

Ensure that the SAP Instance Configuration Configuration Parameters in the parent pom.xml file (../../.pom.xml) of quick starts project has been set to match the connection configuration for your SAP instance.
Ensure the destination QUICKSTART has been defined in your SAP instance:
a. Using the SAP GUI, run transaction SM59 (RFC Destinations).
b. Create a new destination (Edit > Create):
1. RFC Destination : QUICKSTART.
2. Connection Type : T.
3. Technical Settings :
i. Activation Type : Registered Server Program.
ii.Program ID : QUICKSTART.
4. Unicode:
i. Communication Type with Target System : Unicode

Ensure the following ZBAPI_FLCUST_CREATEFROMDATA ABAP program is installed and activated in your SAP client:

 *&---------------------------------------------------------------------*
 *& Report  ZBAPI_FLCUST_CREATEFROMDATA
 *&
 *&---------------------------------------------------------------------*
 *&
 *&
 *&---------------------------------------------------------------------*
 
 REPORT  ZBAPI_FLCUST_CREATEFROMDATA.
 
 
 DATA: RFCDEST LIKE RFCDES-RFCDEST VALUE 'NONE'.
 
 
 DATA: RFC_MESS(128).
 
 
 DATA: CUSTOMER_DATA LIKE BAPISCUNEW.
 
 RFCDEST = 'QUICKSTART'.
 
 CUSTOMER_DATA-CUSTNAME = 'Fred Flintstone'.
 CUSTOMER_DATA-FORM = 'Mr.'.
 CUSTOMER_DATA-STREET = '123 Rubble Lane'.
 CUSTOMER_DATA-POSTCODE = '01234'.
 CUSTOMER_DATA-CITY = 'Bedrock'.
 CUSTOMER_DATA-COUNTR = 'US'.
 CUSTOMER_DATA-PHONE = '800-555-1212'.
 CUSTOMER_DATA-EMAIL = 'fred@bedrock.com'.
 CUSTOMER_DATA-CUSTTYPE = 'P'.
 CUSTOMER_DATA-DISCOUNT = '005'.
 CUSTOMER_DATA-LANGU = 'E'.
 
 CALL FUNCTION 'BAPI_FLCUST_CREATEFROMDATA'
   IN BACKGROUND TASK
   DESTINATION RFCDEST
   EXPORTING
     CUSTOMER_DATA = CUSTOMER_DATA.
 
 CUSTOMER_DATA-CUSTNAME = 'Barney Rubble'.
 CUSTOMER_DATA-FORM = 'Mr.'.
 CUSTOMER_DATA-STREET = '123 Pebble Road'.
 CUSTOMER_DATA-POSTCODE = '98765'.
 CUSTOMER_DATA-CITY = 'Flagstone'.
 CUSTOMER_DATA-COUNTR = 'US'.
 CUSTOMER_DATA-PHONE = '800-555-1313'.
 CUSTOMER_DATA-EMAIL = 'barney@flagstone.com'.
 CUSTOMER_DATA-CUSTTYPE = 'P'.
 CUSTOMER_DATA-DISCOUNT = '005'.
 CUSTOMER_DATA-LANGU = 'E'.
 
 CALL FUNCTION 'BAPI_FLCUST_CREATEFROMDATA'
   IN BACKGROUND TASK
   DESTINATION RFCDEST
   EXPORTING
     CUSTOMER_DATA = CUSTOMER_DATA.
 
 IF SY-SUBRC NE 0.
 
 WRITE: / 'Call ZBAPI_FLCUST_CREATEFROMDATA SY-SUBRC = ', SY-SUBRC.
 WRITE: / RFC_MESS.
 
 ENDIF.
 
 COMMIT WORK.

Build and Run the Quickstart

To build and run the quick start:

Change your working directory to the sap-trfc-server-fuse directory.

Run mvn clean install to build the quick start.
In your JBoss Fuse installation directory run, ./bin/fuse to start the JBoss Fuse runtime.
In the JBoss Fuse console, run install -s mvn:org.fusesource/camel-sap to install the JBoss Fuse SAP Synchronous Remote Function Call Server Camel component. Note the bundle number for the component bundle returned by this command.
In the JBoss Fuse console, run install -s mvn:org.jboss.quickstarts.fuse/sap-trfc-server-fuse to install the quick start. Note the bundle number for the quick start returned by this command.
In the JBoss Fuse console, run log:tail to monitor the JBoss Fuse log.
Invoke the camel route from SAP by running the ZBAPI_FLCUST_CREATEFROMDATA program.
In the console observe the request received by the endpoint.

Stopping and Uninstalling the Quickstart

To uninstall the quick start and stop the JBoss Fuse run-time perform the following in the JBoss Fuse console:

Enter Ctrl-c to stop monitoring the JBoss Fuse log.

Run uninstall <quickstart-bundle-number> providing the bundle number for the quick start bundle.
Run uninstall <camel-sap-bundle-number> providing the bundle number for the component bundle.
Run shutdown -f to shutdown the JBoss Fuse runtime.

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