SAP Business Connector Wikipedia. SAP Business Connector also known as SAP BC is a re branded versionrestricted licence version of web. Methods Integration Server provided by SAP as a middleware solution for their R3 product. It was developed jointly by web. Methods and SAP in a partnership which lasted from March 1. EN/0f/74e2963e4f9840ab9a4b9e10c5ebcb/TEMPLATE_image002.gif' alt='Sap Java Connector' title='Sap Java Connector' />March 2. Methods contributed the Integration Server platform including components like HTTP server client, FTP server client, SMTPIMAPPOP3 client, XML processing tools, data mapping engine, job scheduler, while SAP contributed the components for RFCt. RFC, BAPI and IDoc communication and processing. These SAP components were bundled into an add on package called SAP Adapter that can be installed on top of the core Integration Server. HistoryeditTechnically the SAP Business Connector is a web. Windows Thin Pc Msdn here. The SAP Community is the quickest way for users to solve problems, learn more about SAP solutions, and invent new ways to get things done. Hello gurus, I have a problem with SAP and JCo 3. My task is to create a simple JCo application which is going to be called from SAP. Im using the approach with. Components of SAP Communication Technology Basic Technical Concepts Classic SAP Technologies ABAP Communication Between ABAP and NonABAP Technologies. Hi All, We have a SAP Business One Application installed on a laptop. The requirement is to be able to use the SAP Java API to update tables in the system. Methods Integration Server bundled with a pre installed SAP Adapter. SAP customers were able to license additional adapters from web. Methods like Baan Adapter, JD Edwards Adapter, Oracle Adapter, People. Soft Adapter, Siebel Adapter, etc. These adapters would run on a w. M Integration Server and an SAP BC alike, as during that time meaning from release 2. Create_JCo_Step1.png' alt='Sap Java Connector' title='Sap Java Connector' />Then in March 2. SAP who had acquired the full core Integration Server source code started developing SAP BC 4. Methods began work on w. M IS 6. 0. Of course the component that changed most in SAP BC 4. SAP Adapter, which got enhanced IDoc processing capabilities and performance improvements in the RFC communication layer. However, SAP also enhanced selected components of the core Integration Server, e. Reverse Invoke feature and the Wm. Partners package, which was completely redesigned. SAP tried to do these core enhancements in a backward compatible way, the only exception being the Wm. Partners package whose architecture had to be changed radically, because the original version had proved to be a serious performance bottleneck. Sap Java Connector' title='Sap Java Connector' />Consequently, most web. Methods adapters developed for w. M IS 4. 6 or w. M IS 6. SAP BC 4. 7, with the exception of those adapters that have a tight coupling with the Wm. Partners package. SAP BC 4. 7 was released in June 2. By that time SAP had already started development of its own integrationmiddleware product Message Broker, later renamed to Exchange Infrastructure SAP XI, nowadays called Process Integration SAP PI, so the SAP Business Connector product line was frozen at version 4. Then, in summer 2. SAP Business Connector be downloaded and used free of charge by any SAP customer with a valid license. Customers should apply to download the SAP BC and pass a. SAP BC 4. 7 was endangered, because most operating systems and Java VM versions, on which the BC depended, had gone out of maintenance. Therefore, development for another release SAP BC 4. This version was released in July 2. JVMs and operating systems. See SAP note 1. 09. However, as was the case with SAP BC 4. SAP again added a number of enhancements and performance improvements to some w. M core components as well as to the SAP components, most notably to the worker thread pool, the database adapter, the debugging, monitoring and tracing capabilities, the RFC and IDoc processing and the Developer tool. In response to the split web. Methods has created the web. Methods for SAP as an updated version 6. SAP customers wishing to continue using web. Methods technology for middlewareB2. B integration. Use cases and functionalityeditThe role of the SAP Business Connector is to provide XMLweb services type integration between SAP instances or from SAP to 3rd party systemsB2. B as the R3 platform had no similar capabilities. Typical usecases include Exchanging data between your and your business partners R3 system via the internet using HTTPS, FTP or EmailAccessing data sources in the internet from within your SAP system e. Exchanging data with third party non SAP systems inside or outside your corporate firewall e. Differences between SAP Business Connector and web. Methods Integration ServereditWeb administration user interface was branded with the SAP water drop logo and different colour scheme for UISAP BC comes with the SAP Adapter, while on the w. M IS it has to be installed separately. The SAP Adapter inside the Business Connector is a shared development between SAP and web. Methods. It was further enhanced in UI functionality mainly for usability issues by SAP after the end of the partnership. The official SAP Adapter inside the web. Methods Integration Server was redeveloped for version 6. SAP. The SAP BC is mainly a web. Methods Integration Server 4. SAP BC 4. 8. Releases 4. The web. Methods Integration Server went from Release 4. Release 6. 0 and continued to evolve up to release 1. Releases 6. 0 6. See alsoeditReferenceseditExternal linksedit.