What do loose coupling and close coupling mean?
Loose Coupling and Close Coupling (or tight integration) describe the relation between the TMS system and the application on the export side. • Close coupling means that you can find mechanisms within an application (e.g. SAP NetWeaver Portal or SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure to attach a transportable object (e.g. epa, sda,…) to a transport request on the CTS system. • Loose coupling means that the application does not provide a direct integration mechanism. You would start an export within the application, download the export result and attach it manually to a transport request via the Transport organizer Web UI by uploading it again. In most cases, the import is done automatically. This means that when importing a queue TMS calls the deployment tool of an application and hands over the files. The import is done automatically; no administrator’s interaction is required. In some cases, the exported file is delivered to a designated destination and the import itself needs to
