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Using Staging BAPIs to Retrieve SAP BW Metadata
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Using Staging BAPIs to Retrieve SAP BW Metadata
The Staging (or Warehouse Management) BAPIs (Business Application Programming
Interfaces) include methods to update and retrieve metadata for InfoObjects, InfoCubes,
InfoObjectCatalogs, and the definition of InfoPackages, an SAP Business Warehouse (BW),
from a third party tool.
By using these BAPIs, you can connect metadata repositories and extraction engines to the
SAP Business Information Warehouse. BEA WebLogic enables you to link these systems to
the rest of the enterprise.
For complete documentation on the individual data structures and individual BAPI calls,
see Business Information Warehouse available at the following URL:
http://service.sap.com
Procedure: How to Deploy BAPIs Through BEA WebLogic
To deploy BAPIs through BEA WebLogic:
1. Start the Servlet Application Explorer and connect to SAP.
2. Select an object to query.
In this procedure, you use BAPI_INFOCUBE_GETLIST as an example.
3. Create a schema.
4. Create an XML instance from the schema.
5. Modify the XML by entering A for active version in the version tag as follows:
<VERSION>A</VERSION>
</InfoObject.GetList>
The goal is to retrieve a list of all active InfoCubes, so the character, A, is entered in the
VERSION parameter of the tag.