SAP ABAP DATA COMMUNICATION documentation, setup help and example usage

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Data Interfaces and Communication Interfaces
This section describes ABAP statements and programming interfaces for communication with other systems and programs and their associated data exchange formats.

RFC - Remote Function Call

ICF - Internet Communication Framework

ABAP and XML

ABAP and JSON

ABAP and OLE

System Class for UUID s

The SAP Library contains documentation about all

SAP communication interfaces

.
On the other hand, communication between an AS ABAP and a different system, such as a Java server, using the

SAP Java Connector (

JCO )
is based on RFC on the AS ABAP side.

Note
Alongside the external communication methods listed here, there are also several obsolete data interfaces and communication interfaces .