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Inbound processing for the BAPI interface
The adapter supports inbound processing (from the SAP server to the adapter) for simple BAPIs. A client application on the SAP server invokes a function through the adapter to an endpoint.
- Synchronous and asynchronous RFC
For BAPI inbound processing, you can specify that the processing be handled synchronously (in which both the client application and the adapter must be available during processing) or asynchronously (in which the adapter does not have to be available when the client application invokes the function call). In synchronous processing, the client application waits for a response from the adapter. In asynchronous processing, the client application does not wait for a response.- Event recovery
You can configure the adapter for BAPI inbound processing so that it supports event recovery in case a failure occurs while the event is being delivered from the adapter to the endpoint. When event recovery is specified, the adapter persists the event state in an event recovery table that resides on a data source.