Important Question and Answers - 1

1.What is Business System?
Business systems are logical systems, which function as senders or receivers within PI. Business systems can be SAP systems or third-party systems.
Depending on the associated technical system, the following types of business systems are defined in the SLD:
·        Web AS ABAP
·        Web AS Java
·        Third-party
·        Standalone
·        Business Partner

2.What is Product?
A collection of all versions of a product. A product is a unit that is delivered, visible to the customer, and is installable and renewable. In an SAP environment, a product corresponds to an SAP technical component.

3.What is  Product version?
A particular version of a product.

4.What is Software component?
A collection of all versions of a software component. Software components represent the reusable modules of a product. You can upgrade them or install patches on them.

5.What is Software component version?
A particular version of a software component.

6.What is Software unit?
A particular aspect of the product functions. It is a logical link between the product version and the software component version.

7. What is Adapter Framework?
Part of the Adapter Engine, which provides interfaces for configuring, managing, and monitoring adapters.

8. What is Software Catalog?
Product and Product Versions
Software Unit
Software Component and its versions

9. What is System Catalog?
Technical Systems
Business Systems

10. What is Message Mapping?
Message Mapping is nothing but a set of rules for producing target XML from the source XML.These rules are nothing but relations between the source XML tags and target XML tags.These rules keep varying according to the business requirements on the source and target XML documents.

11. What is Occurrence and Representation?
Occcurence: is just a counter to track the number of times the given XML tag can occur in the XML file generated at the integration engine pipe line.
Representation: 1. Element: Simple XML tag.
     2. Attribute: Property of XML tag.
     3. Node: Logical grouping of set of XML tags.
Example:
<Node Attribute_Node="">
<Element />
</Node>


12. What is Color Indicator?
      ( Red Color ) indicates that target nodes/elements/attributes are mandatory and has to be definetly mapped.
      ( Green Color with a red circle ) at the bottom indicates that there is a minimum occurrence specified for the tag which has to be met in the mapping.
      ( Green color ) indicates that we can map the nodes/elements/attributes according to the requirements.

13. What is Contest?
Context of an element is nothing but just the level (with reference to its parent node) where the XML tag appears in the given XML document.

Context Changing : Context Changing is just changing the level of XML tag (element level in the XSD) in the XML document or It is just the flexibility provided by XI for changing the XSD of the XML document at the runtime

Context Handling: Contexts in XI can be handled by various ways like node functions, advanced functions.