- ABAP/4
- The SAP internal programming language of R/3.
- ALE
- SAP's application link enabling technology that provides distributed processing for R/3 Systems and third-party systems through the broadcast and guaranteed delivery of IDOCs to their appropriate destination(s).
- eLink-to-R/3
- The BEA eLink Adapter for R/3 ALE component server that processes and submits eLink-to-R/3 IDOCs to R/3 for ALE processing. Since any IDOC movement is from an R/3 point of view, this is known as the inbound server.
- R/3-to-eLink
- The BEA eLink Adapter for R/3 ALE component server that receives and processes R/3-to-eLink IDOCs from R/3. Since any IDOC movement is from an R/3 point of view, this is known as the outbound server.
- BAPI
- SAP's Business Application Programming Interface, which provides remotely callable RFCs (methods) that are associated with R/3 Business Objects.
- BDC
- SAP Batch Data Control, which processes screen-oriented data in transactions.
- BO
- SAP Business Object framework that provides an object-oriented model of the enterprise. For example, a Sales Order is represented in R/3 as a Business Object.
- BOR
- SAP Business Object Repository that contains the definitions of R/3 Business Objects and their associated BAPIs.
- eLink Adapter for R/3 ALE
- BEA eLink Adapter for R/3 ALE (application link enabling technology) is the infrastructure of choice for application integration of the SAP R/3 environment. It works with mission-critical, high-performance middleware to enable easy application integration with and real-time access to SAP R/3 transactions, functions and data.
- FML
- BEA Field Manipulation Language, a type of message buffer in ATMI. In BEA eLink Adapter for R/3 ALE documentation, FML always refers to FML32.
- IDOC
- SAP Intermediate Document (a flat file record of data) that is distributed via ALE.
- R/3
- SAP client-server product that provides access to the R/3 System via a three-tier architecture consisting of database, application, and presentation components.
- RFC
- SAP Remote Function Call interface that allows non-R/3 Systems to invoke remotely callable ABAP/4 functions. Synchronous RFC, transactional RFC (tRFC), and asynchronous RFC (aRFC) styles are supported.
- SAPGUI
- SAP graphical user interface utility.
- TID
- Transaction ID for tracking IDOC transactions.
