When I was thinking about the evolution of SAP PI and the new version that will be soon released, I did the following questions to myself: Why exist two independent development tools for SAP PI?
It's an old question that all students in SAP Training courses have made me and I have never been able to answer them with enough conviction because I think the same.
I think some of the improvements that SAP should implement in the next versions should be:
Only one development tool. At this moment, I don't know why SAP doesn't integrate both development tools in a single one.
SAP Netweaver Developer Studio. As SAP has adopted Eclipse for the Java development enviroment, why don't they use eclipse for the PI development? It's a good tool for developping Java programs, XSD, XML, etc
Java Module plugin. It would be necessary to have a plugin to develop our own module adapter and be able to enhance the features of the standard adapters.
Adapter Plugin. It's a good point to have an Adapter module plugin for SAP PI as well. It would be good to create adapters from scratch.
Change BPEL to BPMN notation and integrate Galaxy as SAP PI BPM tool.
In the beginng these are some of the proposals that come to my mind.
Summarizing, I think that SAP should adopt Eclipse as base platform for development, both Java development and PI developement.
Don't you think?
On the other hand I have severals findings about some features that SAP should improve:
The import IDOC/RFCs methods. When we search for a particular IDOC or RFC all information of IDOC/RFC in SAP System is downloaded. This is a very heavy task for the virtual machine memory, why don't download only the information or data required ?
The memory management. Now the memory management isn't optimized, I think SAP should work harder to fix this issue.
What are the things that SAP has made better?
The use of the CTS+ as method of transport of PI objects .It was a good choice.
The use of individual repository for SAP PI Objects, it was good that SAP had not integrated the repository object into NWDI.
The monitorig enviroment. I have always found all the error messages I was looking for in a short time.
What do you think about the improvements that SAP should apply in the next SAP PI versions?
