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Are there advantages of BAPIs over BDCs?
Wondering if there are advantages of BAPIs over BDCs? Matt Billingham, SAP application development guru, tells one reader about those advantages.
We're having reservations about using BAPIs because there does not seem to be an equivalent of the SM35 transaction to handle the errors.(Our "standard" is to call the appropriate transaction to do the postings and only send the errors to SM35). Any suggestions would be appreciated.
The advantages of BAPIs over BDCs are that they are usually faster, they enable functionality not possible through BDC, they are guaranteed over several SAP upgrades, they can be called from external systems, and they're less prone to development errors.
The downside is that you have program verification, validation and error handling yourself.
If there is a BAPI for what you want to do, use it -- you'll find the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.
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