The archiving functionality is required to reduce the high volume of database tables. The data archiving will remove data which is no longer need in the system but which must still be available for reporting. In FI-CA the Data Archiving with Archive Development Kit (ADK) is used.
You can use the data archiving functions to archive any completed business transactions that are no longer relevant for your daily operations. You store the archived data in archive files to which the system has read-only access.
Archiving Objects define which data is to be bundled into completed business objects in data archiving and which archiving programs are to be executed.
From a technical point of view, data archiving from ABAP application systems is based on the archiving objects of the Archive Development Kit (ADK). A limited number of XML archiving objects use data archiving based on the XML Data Archiving Service (XML DAS), which runs on AS Java.
Note: XML-based archiving of objects in ABAP systems is not being developed any further. You can continue to use existing archiving objects but you can not create any new XML-based archiving objects in ABAP systems. Instead, always used the Archive Development Kit (ADK) (see Data Archiving with Archive Development Kit (ADK))
