How to integrate with SAP B1 using DI Server integration?

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Fossil picture Fossil · Sep 29, 2016 · Viewed 11.9k times · Source

We are trying to integrate SAP business one to our application using Java

Where can we find more information on it any Documents, API , tutorial, links, how to start/do it pointer towards the right direction will be appreciated.

SAP's Developer portal if more focused on SAP HANA - http://go.sap.com/developer.html?original_fqdn=developers.sap.com

We are considering to use DI server to integrate from the below list? We cannot use SAP HANA platform.

-DI API, -DI Server, -B1WS, -SAP Business One Service Layer

Thank you for your help and time

Answer

Daz picture Daz · Oct 27, 2016

The Business One installer has an option to install an SDK component. This contains a CHM format help file containing information on DI-API, DI-Server and UI-API (but not Service Layer which is for Hana version only) as well as database schema. Also in the SDK are example projects in VB and C#.

If you are using DI-Server, calling the GetBusinessObjectXmlSchema method will get you the schema for individual object types such as business partners.

DI-Server is more lightweight but has less functionality than DI-API. It is more suited to transactional processing such as importing orders from a website.

If you do need to use Service Layer, it's functions are based on DI-API and there should be a lot of concepts that apply to both.

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