In PI adapters are used for the connection between legacy ( or external ) systems with the SAP PI engine.Here is the list of main adapters and its specifications and usage.These adapters can be broadly classified as three types
- Application Adapters
- Industry Adapters
- Technical Adapters
Application Adapters contains
- RFC ( Remote Function Call )
- IDoc ( Intermediate Document )
Industry Adapters contains
- RosettaNet (RNIF 1.1)
- RosettaNet (RNIF 2.0)
- CIDX (RNIF 1.1)
Technical Adapters contains
- File/FTP(S) (File Systems / FTP Servers)
- JDBC (Relational Database Management System)
- JMS (Java Messaging Service)
- SOAP (Web Services based on Simple Object Access Protocol)
- WS-RM (Web Services based on WS Reliable Messaging)
- Plain HTTP(S) protocol
- WebMail (Mail Servers via SMTP, IMAP4, POP3)
- SAP Business Connector (SAP BC)
- mySAP Marketplace
Now we can see the overview specification of each adapter
RFC
IDoc
RNIF 1.1 Adapter
RNIF 2.0 Adapter
CIDX
WS Channel
FILE / FTP
JDBC
JMS
HTTP Adapter
SOAP Adapter
MAIL Adapter
SAP Business Connector Adapter
Marketplace
All these adapters don’t need to install separately. It will be available with the standard installation of SAP NetWeaver PI.
Also Read : SAP NetWeaver Introduction -> PI Introduction tutorial -> PI ABAP Tcodes