SAP Process Orchestration: What’s new

in SAP Process Orchestration 7.5 SP00

Posted by Alexander Bundschuh Nov 6, 2015

SAP NetWeaver 7.5 is the new foundation of SAP's on-premise offerings such as SAP Business Suite and the
on-premise edition of SAP S/4HANA. Besides this, it provides new capabilities for the various SAP NetWeaver
products such as SAP Gateway, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP Process Orchestration, etc. If you like to get
an overview of the new release take a look at the What’s Coming Next with SAP NetWeaver 7.5 article. In the
meantime, the new release 7.5 Support Package Stack 00 has been shipped, actually during this year's SAP
TechEd conference held in Las Vegas, just in time to roll out the latest features to the audience. In this blog,
I would like to share with you new features highlights of SAP Process Orchestration. By the way, some of the
new features have been also added to the latest SP of release 7.31, i.e., 7.31 SP17, which has been released
today (6th of Nov. 2015). I have marked those features in the text below accordingly.

SAP JVM 8 support

SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java and hence SAP Process Orchestration runs on SAP JVM 8, a
certified Java Virtual Machine and Java Development Kit for Java 8 leveraging from new features and
enhancements that come with the Java 8 edition. Some of the new features are highlighted in the release notes
at SAP JVM 8 - What's New in SAP NetWeaver 7.5 (Release Notes) - SAP Library. How can SAP Process
Orchestration benefit from the latest Java technology?
• Java mappings in PI and BPM can use new Java 8 features
• Support for new driver versions for JMS and JDBC which require latest Java version
• Compatibility with 3rd party libraries and adapters which require latest Java version

SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio available for Eclipse

4.4 (Luna)
The SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio which is based on the Eclipse platform supports Eclipse 4.4 (Luna)
version. This way you can run all SAP Process Orchestration plug-ins in the same Eclipse instance together
with other SAP development tools for Eclipse such as SAP HANA Cloud Integration Tools, SAP HANA Tools,
SAP HANA Cloud Platform Tools, etc.

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Dual stack option discontinued

SAP NetWeaver has discontinued dual-stack deployments as of release 7.4 with the exception of SAP Process
Integration (SAP PI), see SAP NetWeaver Discontinues Dual Stack. With 7.5, there is no exception anymore,
the dual-stack option for SAP Process Integration is not supported anymore. It has been replaced by a sort
of dual usage type, i.e., it behaves like a PI dual-stack but both stacks the AS ABAP and the AS Java run
on separate system IDs, see release notes at Dual-Stack Option Changed to Dual Usage Type (Changed) -
What's New in SAP NetWeaver 7.5 (Release Notes) - SAP Library.

What does this mean for existing SAP PI dual-stack installations in terms of an upgrade to 7.5? After upgrading
to SAP PI 7.5, you have to split the dual-stack system before you can use it productively. The dual-stack split
procedure of the Software Provisioning Manager now supports the split of PI, see Overview - Dual-Stack Split
Procedure of Software Provisioning Manager 1.0. As a result, the end points of the stacks will change, so it is
recommended to place a SAP Web Dispatcher, reverse proxy or any other load balancer in your landscape
to shield your backend systems from this change. Note, that the upgrade option is not supported yet, this is
planned to be supported with the next SP. For more information about how to perform the split, refer to SAP
note 2190371 (the note will be released for customers soon).

If you like to install a fresh SAP Process Integration supporting the dual usage type, you first need
to perform an installation of ‘Application Server ABAP for SAP Process Integration’, followed by
performing an installation of ‘Application Server Java for SAP Process Integration’, both running
on separate system IDs. Here, the AS Java uses the User Management Engine (UME) of the AS ABAP.
However, for a fresh installation we strongly recommend to rather go for an SAP Process Orchestration
installation which is SAP's strategic on-premise integration platform.

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Access BPM lifecycle events with Push API

The SAP BPM API enables you to customize and enhance the way you use business processes and execute
tasks. Sometimes it might be required to get insights into the execution of business processes and tasks. This
could be the case if you for instance plan to send out notifications via SMS once a new task gets created.
To support such scenarios, the API has been enhanced to provide access to lifecycle events of business
processes and tasks. Applications can now register for such events and get notified once a certain event
occurs, e.g., a process is completed or a task gets created. SAP BPM uses the Java Message Service
(JMS) to publish lifecycle events and thus enables a decoupled exchange of data without directly connecting
applications. There are two ways to consume BPM-related events through JMS: via a Message Driven Bean
(MDB) or via a JMS API available in the Java Public API. Learn more about this on help.sap.com (This feature
is also available in 7.31 SP17).

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New message cancelling job

So far, the following job types were supported: for archiving, deleting, restarting, and recovering messages.
Cancelling erroneous messages was only supported as manual task. With the latest release and SP, a new
job type has been introduced that allows you to scheduled a mass cancellation of messages which are in a
non-final status, see Cancelling Job (New) - What's New in SAP NetWeaver 7.5 (Release Notes) - SAP Library
(This feature is also available in 7.31 SP17).

New enhancements of the ESR in Eclipse perspective

As an integration developer for SAP Process Orchestration you mainly work within the SAP NetWeaver
Developer Studio as your common UI for maintaining your design time artifacts such as data types, mappings,
service interfaces, etc. (ESR in Eclipse perspective), modeling business processes (Process Composer
perspective), and configuring the routing rules, latter aka Integration Flows (Process Integration Designer
perspective). Regarding the ESR in Eclipse perspective we are not yet fully function complete compared to the
respective Java WebStart UI. So some tasks still need to be done within the Java WebStart UI, However, we
constantly work on closing those functional gaps. In 7.5 SP00 we have addressed the following capabilities:
• Import external definitions, i.e., either WSDL or XSD, mass import supported.

• Copy ESR objects with the option to copy all dependent objects.

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• Where-used list. The result list shows all objects with their respective object type that uses the
selected object, and whether the object is directly used or indirectly referenced to.

New enhancements of the Process Integration Designer

perspective (Integration Flows)
The following new features have been shipped which facilitates working with Integration Flows (Those features
are also available in 7.31 SP17):

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• Automatically deploy after import. Enable this feature by setting the property
com.sap.aii.ibdir.core.transport.autoDeploy of service XPI Service: AII Config Service to true, see
SAP note 2158617.
• Export from context menu. You can for instance choose export from a folder, then all underlying
Integration Flows and related objects are preselected.

• Option to hide deleted objects in the export selection screen.

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• Reload/refresh the assigned referenced channels. If you change a communication channel which
is used within one or more Integration Flows in a way that it affects the agreement settings, upon
activation of the channel the changes are now automatically reflected in the agreement tab of
the Integration Flows without manual reload. If a peer developer does the change of the channel
however, and this would affect an Integration Flow you are working on, then you can explicitly select
the Refresh Referenced Channel button to update the channel attributes.

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• Show deployment status of all Integration Flows, apply filter, and mass deploy or undeploy the
selected Integration Flows.

• View history and restore older versions for all PI configuration objects.

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Running cloud integration content on SAP Process

Orchestration
For so called hybrid scenario, i.e., on-premise to cloud integration scenarios, SAP provides pre-packaged
content covering different line of business areas and SAP cloud solutions such as SAP S/4 HANA, cloud
edition, Ariba Network, SAP Cloud for Customer, SuccessFactors HCM Suite, SuccessFactors Employee
Central, etc. As a good starting point to explore SAP's offering in this regard, I would recommend to go to
the Hybrid Scenarios overview page on SAP Service Marketplace. Content that either run on SAP Process
Integration / SAP Process Orchestration or SAP HANA Cloud Integration (HCI) can be accessed from SAP's
Content Hub. There exists content that only runs on HCI such as SuccessFactors LMS Curricula with SAP
HCM Qualification, Electronic Invoicing for Chile, Peru, Italy, Spain, etc. With 7.5 you can now deploy and run
the cloud integration content also on SAP Process Orchestration benefiting from the investment that we do on
HCI, see Cloud Integration Content in SAP PI (New) - What's New in SAP NetWeaver 7.5 (Release Notes) -
SAP Library. This new feature runs on any Adapter Engine of release 7.5, so you can also use it on a PI dual
usage type, an Advanced Adapter Engine Extended, or a non-central Adapter Engine. However, be aware that
the use of this feature requires a Process Orchestration license.

If you like to know more about content re-use across the two platforms SAP Process Orchestration and SAP
HANA Cloud Integration join the lecture session INT202 from my colleague Sindhu Gangadharan on this year's
SAP TechEd conference.

For a complete overview of all new features, check out the release notes at Support Package Stack 00 -
What's New in SAP NetWeaver 7.5 (Release Notes) - SAP Library.
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Theo Neerudu in response to Christian Loos on page 12

Nov 28, 2015 9:16 AM
Hi Christian,

How do we do BPM developments / Process design without these modelling / designer perspective? I
downloaded NWDS 7.5 SP01 from SMP and I am not seeing several perspectives that we used to have earlier.
I see it was mentioned that we can add plug-ins, any pointers how we can achieve this?

Thanks,
Theo

Shabarish Vijayakumar in response to Alexander Bundschuh on page 10

Nov 23, 2015 1:26 PM
That's a disappointment. We were hoping to have PO as a one stop solution for OData provisioning. Without
OData 'modelling' for both ABAP and Non-ABAP, the current feature is not really that useful.

Alexander Bundschuh in response to Shabarish Vijayakumar on page 10

Nov 23, 2015 11:09 AM
no, SAP Process Orchestration only acts as Gateway hub, modeling is done in the backend

Alex

Shabarish Vijayakumar in response to Alexander Bundschuh on page 10

Nov 23, 2015 10:10 AM
This seems more like a proxy for gateway services modelled in the backend ABAP system. Is there a way in
7.5 to actually model the OData service in SAP PO for both ABAP and non ABAP systems?

Alexander Bundschuh in response to Shabarish Vijayakumar on page 10

Nov 23, 2015 9:00 AM
yes, this is supported, see Exposing Gateway Services from SAP Process Orchestration

Alex

Shabarish Vijayakumar
Nov 22, 2015 11:41 PM
During teched, there was a mention of 'gateway inside' - Does this mean we can provision (not just consume)
OData in Process Orchestration?

Alexander Bundschuh in response to Eng Swee Yeoh on page 11

Nov 17, 2015 9:19 AM
Hi Eng Swee,

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I can't find the NWDS 7.5 on the update sites either, but on the SAP Service Marketplace download center it's
actually available, go to Support Packages and Patches --> SAP NetWeaver and complementary products -->
SAP NetWeaver --> SAP NetWeaver 7.5 --> Developer Studio.
You need to install the whole NWDS, but you can add the other plug-ins in NWDS
Obviously, it's only supported on Windows

Alex

Eng Swee Yeoh

Nov 17, 2015 3:25 AM
Hi Alex

Real glad to hear of all the improvements especially on the NWDS ESR perspective. Looking forward to the
day when it becomes fully equivalent to the Swing version.

I have a few questions regarding NWDS 7.5:

1. Where is the download location for NWDS 7.5? I can't find it in the Software Downloads section of the
Support Portal or the usual nwds.sap.com update sites.
2. Is the installation process similar to ADT or HCI - i.e. install a plain Eclipse Luna and add the NWDS related
plugins via an update site? If not, then does it mean that I won't be able to reuse an existing Ecplise Luna with
ADT/HCI already installed?
3. Will it be compatible with Mac OS X?

Rgds
Eng Swee

Aleksej Olegovich Lukashevich in response to Christian Loos on page 11

Nov 16, 2015 3:16 PM
Hi Christian,

thanks for explanation.

Best regards,
Alexei

Christian Loos in response to Aleksej Olegovich Lukashevich on page 12

Nov 16, 2015 2:37 PM
One goal of the 7.5 NWDS was to simplify the toolset and reduce the overall footprint. NWDS had hundreds
of plugins, some of them only very rarely used. Various stats showed that adoption of the Composite Designer
tools was rather low, sometimes the tool being completely unknown.

Second, the composite designer worked best with fully integrated development components (BPM Process
with WebDynpro UI, Web Services and Local Persistency), and not so much with more loosely coupled
integration of UIs via URL and integration being done via PI/XI.

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Third, we also had gotten feedback that users were confused with different feature sets of the tools when in the
Composite Designer perspective compared to the standalone perspectives.

Iliya Kuznetsov in response to Aleksej Olegovich Lukashevich on page 12

Nov 13, 2015 2:01 PM
We may to port this perspective by ourself

Aleksej Olegovich Lukashevich in response to Christian Loos on page 12

Nov 13, 2015 1:25 PM
Hi Christian!

But what is the reason to remove this perspective?

It's useful for BPM development, everything is in one place - processes, mappings, user interface, etc.

Best regards,
Alexei

Iliya Kuznetsov in response to Christian Loos on page 12

Nov 13, 2015 1:09 PM
Thank you Christian for explanation.

It's pity
It is very useful in 7.4 to build deploy whole SWCV at one mouse click (RMB at SWCV > Deploy > answer Yes
on "Build and Deploy").

Of course there is possibility to build and deploy separate DCs at Development Infrastructure.

Christian Loos in response to Iliya Kuznetsov on page 12

Nov 13, 2015 11:40 AM
Hi Iliya,

the Composite Designer perspective is no longer available in NWDS 7.5.

You can still use the individual tool perspectives (e.g. WebDynpro, J2EE, Process Development) to build your
application.

Regards,
Christian

Iliya Kuznetsov
Nov 12, 2015 6:12 PM
The perspective "Composite Designer" is missed. And window "Composite Explorer" is missed too.
Is anybody able to find them at 7.5 ?

Shen Peng in response to Iliya Kuznetsov on page 13

Nov 11, 2015 9:25 AM
ok now. I didn't install jre with the jdk.

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Thanks

Iliya Kuznetsov in response to Shen Peng on page 13

Nov 11, 2015 7:22 AM
You have to run NWDS under 64-bit JDK8, everything works fine

Shen Peng
Nov 11, 2015 4:20 AM

SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio 7.5 does not have

function of web dynpro java ?
I download nwds 7.5 patch 03 from http://support.sap.com/swdc, some function still not work.
What are the full features of nwds 7.5?

Christian Loos
Nov 6, 2015 5:14 PM
Also, if you're attending TechEd Barcelona, don't miss our session INT101 "What's new in Process
Orchestration". We'll talk about these features, what's still to come and also show lots of demos.

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