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[Former Member]

hi....

what is message interface.

thank u.

singu

[Former Member]

Hi Prasad,

Basically a message interface consist of message type and in turn data type combined to form a message in XML.

For example :

You have two data types , one : Student and another is :Address.

So the message type may consist of these Data types together or seperate to give us students details.

These message types are then linked i.e. interfacing is established to form a complete message.

This gives us a complete "message interface" representing Students Record.

I hope this information would help you understand it more.

Regards,

Vishal

[Former Member]

Hi Prasad.

Message Interface is terminology used by SAP XI to communicate with the parties involved in End-to-End integration.

The structure of SAPXI Scenario is like below

Sender --> Interface --> XI --> Interface --> Reciver

Every SAPXI message runs in the pipeline and the interface is at the start and at the end of pipeline. The interface at sender side is called as outbound interface and at receiver side it is called as inbound interface.

Outbound interface consists of source schema, i.e. how the message is coming inside into XI. and Inbound interface consists of target schema i.e. the structure of message XI is going to sent to Receiver.

There are third type of interfaces as well, they are called as abstract interfaces and specifically meant fo BPM's which is needed you in future.

For detail information you can visit to http://www.help.sap.com

Regards,

Shri

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[Former Member]

Hi Prasad,

In simpler terms an interface enables two independent machines meet or communicate with each other. Interface is used for to connect or to interact with another machine.

In XI a <b>Message Interface</b> is the highest level representation of XML metadata. We create data type and then message type. To provide a wrapper over message type we use message interface, where we also specifies that what will be its mode of communication such as Synchronous and Asynchronous and direction either as Inbound or Outbound.

Regards,

Subhasha Ranjan

[Former Member]

Message Interfaces can be created manually, or imported in the case of SAP interfaces(RFC / IDOC). Once the Message Interface exists (in the case of non RFC / IDOC scenarios) it determines which proxy objects can be generated (Proxy Objects to be covered in a later chapter). <b>Message Interfaces are used to describe the inbound / outbound messages routed through XI.</b>

[Former Member]

Hi,

In what context your are asking this questions.? pls find .if you are lokking for the following information..

source-XI-target..

in this case we create outbound message interface in XI for receiving data from source.

in this case we create inbound message interface in XI for sending data from xi to target.

thanks,

venu.

[Former Member]

Make a search for the same in help.sap.com to get a detailed explanation.

[Former Member]

HI,

You use a message interface to describe a platform-independent or programming-language-independent interface, which you want to use to exchange messages between application components using SAP Exchange Infrastructure

See the below link

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/55/c5633c3a892251e10000000a114084/content.htm

Regards

Chilla