Setting up JCO

[Ramaswamy Srinivasan]

Dear All,

I would like to set JCO on Tomcat and connect to SAP.

Since i am newbie, when it comes to SAP and BAPI, can anyone please let me know, what are all the environment settings, to be done, in the Tomcat and is it possible to connect Tomcat with SAP Server?

I have got the sapjco.jar and placed in the \shared\lib directory.

Apart from this, I am not so clear on how to connect to the SAP Server, how to run it in the local machine and other intricasies.

Any information in this regard is highly helpful.

Thanks a lot,
Ram.

[Jason Moors]

What version of SAP are you running? As SAP Netweaver Development studio provides The SAP Enterprise Connector which includes Java Proxies to simplify calling of RFCs.

The SAP Developer Network is a good source of information.

http://www.sdn.sap.com

To establish a connection to the SAP System, you need to instantiate a JCO.Client object using the JCO.createClient() method. You can then use the object�s connect() and disconnect() methods. Between these two methods, you will later add code for calling the function module, and setting and getting the parameter values.

    
import com.sap.mw.jco.JCO;
 

JCO.Client client = JCO.createClient("SAP Client Number",
                                     "username",
                                     "password",
                                     "EN",         // language
                                     "hostname",
                                     "00");        // System Number
 
client.connect();
client.disconnect();

The user name must have SAP permissions in the backend system to run the BAPI.

If you get this far I'll try an explain the process of JCO repository and templatefunction interface required to specify the in/out parameters of the function.

regards

Jason.

[Tony Schmidt]

I'm Guessing that the SAP Netweaver Development studio is an expensive piece of software? This library is proprietary is it not?

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