Patent ID: 7757242

Claim:
A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having computer usable program code programmed for managing outbound transactions, the operations of the computer program product comprising: receiving a J2EE Connector Architecture (“J2C”) execute command associated with a service data object (“SDO”) from a client application, the SDO containing transaction data, the J2C execute command comprising a local transaction command according to J2C protocol; converting the SDO to an Intermediate Document (“IDoc”); requesting a transaction identifier (“TID”) to associate with the SDO, the TID requested from a SAP application in response to the SDO lacking an associated TID, the TID originating from the SAP application and assigned by the SAP application, the SAP application using a transaction Remote Function Call (“tRFC”) protocol, wherein the J2C protocol and the tRFC protocol comprise disparate transaction protocols; transmitting the IDoc and the associated TID to the SAP application using the tRFC protocol for processing the transaction data; and transmitting the SDO updated with the TID to the client application in response to acknowledgement of receipt of the transaction data from the SAP application.