SAP SE
Generic communication layer

Abstract:

Provided is a framework including a generic communication layer that facilitates a separation between communication connections for different communication technologies and an application interfacing with the communication connections. The framework generally includes a remote interface layer including communication interfaces that generically communicate with a client, an application layer that includes applications represented by a set of services that use the communication interfaces to communicate with a client, and a service layer that includes one or more services. The framework includes mechanisms to map parameters of a specific communication technology to a standardized parameter structure that can be used by different service-based applications. In some aspects, the disclosed framework functions to encapsulate each service of an application in a configuration that is communication protocol specific independent of the implementation of the service, where the configuration specifies how the framework is to map services of the application to a specific communication protocol.