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Glossary

ABAP/4

  The SAP internal programming language of R/3.

ALE

  SAP's Application Link Enabling technology that provides distributed processing for R/3 systems and third-party systems through the broadcast and guaranteed delivery of IDOCs to their appropriate destination(s).

ALE eLink to R/3

  The BEA eLink Adapter for R/3 ALE component server that processes and submits eLink to R/3 IDOCs to R/3 for ALE processing.

ALE R/3 to eLink

  The BEA eLink Adapter for R/3 ALE component client that receives and processes R/3 to eLink IDOCs from R/3.

BAPI

  SAP's Business Application Programming Interface, which provides remotely-callable RFCs (methods) that are associated with R/3 Business Objects.

BDC

  SAP's Batch Data Control, which processes screen-oriented data in transactions.

BO

  SAP Business Object framework that provides an object-oriented model of the enterprise. For example, a Sales Order is represented in R/3 as a Business Object.

BOR

  SAP's Business Object Repository that contains the definitions of R/3 Business Objects and their associated BAPIs.

eLink Adapter for R/3 ALE

  BEA eLink Adapter for R/3 ALE (application link enabling technology) is the infrastructure of choice for application integration of the SAP R/3 environment. It works with mission-critical, high-performance middleware to enable easy application integration with and real-time access to SAP R/3 transactions, functions and data.

FML

  BEA's Field Manipulation Language, a type of message buffer in ATMI. In BEA eLink Adapter for R/3 ALE documentation, FML always refers to FML32.

IDOC

  SAP's Intermediate Document (a flat file record of data) that is distributed via ALE.

R/3

  SAP's client-server product that provides access to the SAP system via a three-tier architecture consisting of database, application, and presentation components.

RFC

  SAP's Remote Function Call interface that allows non-R/3 systems to invoke remotely callable ABAP/4 functions. Synchronous RFC, transactional RFC (tRFC), and asynchronous RFC (aRFC) styles are supported.

SAPGUI

  SAP's graphical user interface utility.

TID

  Transaction ID for tracking IDOC transactions.

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