The difference between BAPIs and RFCs

The difference between BAPIs and RFCs

From a coding point of view, how is a BAPI different than an RFC function module?


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Unless you use object-oriented proxies (send an email to tgs@arasoft.de if you are interested in proxies for Java,) there is absolutely no difference: you invoke BAPIs as regular RFC-enabled Function Modules (RFMs).


This was first published in May 2002