You have three options of connecting SAP with SAP PI – IDoc Adapters, RFC Adapters and Proxies. In an earlier blog, we discussed IDOC Adapter in SAP PI. This article specifically deals with understanding the basics of RFC adapter in SAP PI.
Here we will cover the configuration steps for the RFC sender and the receiver adapter.
About RFC Adapter
RFC Adapter converts the incoming RFC calls to XML and XML messages to outgoing RFC calls. We can have both synchronous (sRFC) and asynchronous (tRFC) communication with SAP systems. The former works with Best-Effort QoS (Quality of Service) while the latter by Exactly Once (EO).
Now let us understand the configuration needed to set up RFC communication.