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RFC Introduction
Remote Function Call (RFC) is an SAP procedure for calling function modules in remote systems.
Communication using the RFC interface can be subdivided into different scenarios depending on the systems involved:

AS ABAP - AS ABAP

AS ABAP - external system

AS ABAP - SAP Java

AS ABAP - external Java

RFC can be used as a
synchronous or asynchronous communication procedure.
There are also different RFC variants designed for various purposes and have different service properties respectively:

Synchronous RFC ( sRFC )

Asynchronous RFC ( aRFC )

Parallel RFC ( pRFC )

Background RFC ( bgRFC )

Transactional RFC ( tRFC )

Queued RFC ( qRFC )

More Information

For a detailed description of Remote Function Call, see the following section in SAP Library:

RFC

For details on RFC programming, see:

Writing RFC Programs in ABAP