Error Handling
BizTalk does not describe its own error handling concept in its current specification. However, it recommends that you define application-specific error documents to handle application errors. For server-related errors, it describes using standardized XML exception descriptors.
Adapter for SAP distinguishes between two major groups of errors:
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Errors in the XML processing and conversion layers of
Adapter for SAP, and critical errors in the SAP systems that cause a termination of the connection.
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Application-specific errors such as errors that were foreseen by the application developers and therefore defined at the interface definition in the SAP system. For example: a receipt could not be processed because of business-level problems.
This section includes the following topics: