April 2006
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
15h 32m
English
Content preview from Enterprise SOABecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
What is the role of the SAP NetWeaver Application Server?
SAP NetWeaver AS is foundational to all of the rest of SAP's applications. SAP NetWeaver Portal is Java code that runs on top of SAP NetWeaver AS. Even the mySAP Business Suite, which is written in ABAP, runs on SAP NetWeaver AS.
Although it does much more than a traditional app server, in addition to all of its other functionality, SAP NetWeaver AS is a certified Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.3-compliant app server that provides all the standard app server features, including load balancing, security, and database support via Open SQL.
SAP NetWeaver AS allows companies to extend their solutions by exposing and integrating web services according to their development skills and needs independent of the technical environment. This includes:
Full support for web services standards (WSDL, SOAP, UDDI, WS-I, and so on)
An efficient development, testing, and error correction cycle
A consistent architecture and identical feature sets for the two development environments used in SAP NetWeaver (ABAP and Java)
Support of web services development for creating new applications and for service enabling existing applications and standard SAP interfaces
SAP NetWeaver AS offers developers comprehensive support on the client side, from client proxy generation to integration with dynamic and comprehensive UIs created with Web Dynpro. The Web Service Framework supports both ABAP and Java and offers all the tools needed to enable standard interfaces ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.