BEA WebLogic Server™ 8.1 Unleashed
by Mark Artiges, Gupreet Singh Bhasin, Bernard Ciconte, Malcolm Garland, Saranathan Govindarajan, James Huang, Subramanian Kovilmadam, Kunal Mittal, Paul J. Perrone, Tom Schwenk, Steve Steffen
Summary
In this chapter, we covered most of the aspects of programming in JCo. More resources can be found inside SAPnet at http://service.sap.com. This site requires a valid customer or partner user ID.
We saw that JCo provides an easy-to-use API to connect to SAP. It has proven itself stable and production worthy. This API is proprietary, however. SAP released a J2EE-CA compatible connector early in 2003 in a beta version. This connector was covered in Chapter 31. Other companies, including BEA, have SAP connectors. Some of these companies are also already J2EE-CA compliant. The basis of all these J2EE-CA–compliant connectors is JCo. JCo will continue to be used as the backbone of SAP-Java connectivity even after J2EE-CA matures less in the ...
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