BAPI's in methods

[Wallwork,Stephen,VEVEY,GL-IS/IT]

Hi ,can someone help me out here.
 
I was looking at standard SAP business objects where the method is a BAPI.
 
My understanding is that a BAPI can't carry out the commit, so where is it
carried out ?
 
Stephen Wallwork
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