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Yogesh Patel

October 28, 2015 2 minute read

How to prepare axisproviderlib.sda for Adapter Framework? AXIS Adapter Installation Process for SAP PI 7.31

Updated on November 22, 2019

Recently we upgraded our SAP PI system to Support pack stack 25 and AXIS stopped working.

After some research found SAP note 2616936 – Axis adapter returns the complete SOAP envelope instead of SOAP Body Child element

and

1776204 – NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/axis/description/OperationDesc – during message processing with AXIS adapter

This is required to add serializer.jar and wsdl4j.jar file in to package.

I am updating this document with new information

Tool and Files Require:

Download “sdaMakerTool.jar” from SAP note below:

1028961 – How to prepare axisproviderlib.sda for Adapter Framework

Download other required Files from Links below:

Apache-Axis – http://archive.apache.org/dist/axis/axis/java/1.4/

Jakarta-Commons Discovery – http://archive.apache.org/dist/commons/discovery/

Jakarta-Commons Logging – http://archive.apache.org/dist/commons/logging/

serializer.jar http://archive.apache.org/dist/xalan/xalan-j/binaries/

wsdl4j jar http://sourceforge.net/projects/wsdl4j/

Extract the files required an put them in to one folder as shown below

JAR Files folder

Creating Installation File:

Run sdaMakerTool.jar which you have downloaded from SAP note previously

Select PI version you need from list

Select – Don’t use SAP XI 3^RD PARTY SCA and confirm OK

Select Jar File directory previously created

You will see file loaded as below and also provide output folder

Press Start button

You have SDA file created as below

Now you will see there is output file created as shown below com.sap.aii.af.axisproviderlib.sda

Installation Process

Note: Before you run SUM tool some parameter files needed to be changed as below

Open file at location X:\usr\sap\SID\SUM\sdt\param\jspm_config and add following parameters at the end of the file…

/jspm/deployVersionRule = updateAll
/jspm/forceMode = true

Start SUM tool for installation

Continue with installation and provide manually prepared directory – where you have copy SDA file

Continue with installation

Verify installation package as below

Continue installation till installation finish

Verify installed component

http://hostname:5XX00/XIAxisAdapter/MessageServlet

BEFORE Installation

AFTER Installation completed

SAP Note Referance

1039369 – FAQ XI Axis Adapter

1028961 – How to prepare axisproviderlib.sda for Adapter Framework

Thank you for reading