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Outbound processing for the BAPI result set interface
In BAPI result set outbound processing, a client application sends a request to the SAP server. Processing is handled synchronously (the client application waits for a response from the SAP server).
For BAPI result sets, the following processing steps occur:
- The adapter receives a request from a client application in the form of a BAPI business object.
- The adapter converts the BAPI business object to an SAP JCo function call.
- The adapter uses the Remote Function Call (RFC) interface to process the BAPI or RFC function call in the SAP application.
- After passing the data to the SAP server, the adapter handles the response from SAP and converts it back into the business object format required by the client application.
- The adapter then sends the response back to the client application.