Tired of dull documentation? This book is your solution. Dive into SAP PI and get hands-on practice developing mappings, adapters, and proxies. With exercises to test your knowledge, you'll find detailed descriptions and examples for all development and configuration objects, including monitoring. * Presents end-to-end process integration from a developer s perspective * Helps you master the development of mappings, adapters, and proxies * Includes a comprehensive example scenario The Nitty-Gritty Details Get practical, hands-on instruction about developing mappings, adapters, and proxies.Concrete Activity Guidelines Detailed tutorials with numerous programming examples explain the implementation of all development and configuration objects.Multilayer Scenario Explore an integration example to understand the process of implementing a sales process (inquiry, quotation, ordering, and billing).Procurement Processes and PI Survey the big picture of all procurement processes, along with a list of relevant transactions in the SAP system. * System definition in the SLD * Configuration of the local Integration Engine * Adapter-specific system settings * Configuration of objects, service interfaces, mappings, adapters, proxies * Enterprise Services Repository, Services Registry, Runtime Workbench * Design, configuration, process, monitoring * RFC-to-file, file-to-IDoc, ABAP-proxy-to-SOAP, file-to-JDBC, BPM * Advanced Adapter Engine, integrated configuration * Enhanced receiver determination, XML validation * Message packaging, mapping lookups Read more