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Enterprise SOA
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Enterprise SOA

by Dan Woods, Thomas Mattern
April 2006
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
15h 32m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter SIXTEEN. Creating and Consuming Services in Java

Sap Netweaver provides extensive support for Java developers. In this chapter, we'll look at creating services in Java and at using Web Dynpro to create a service consumer for the ABAP web service we developed in Chapter 15. But before examining these tasks and the Java development environment, let's look at a larger question: how SAP supports Java itself.

Today, SAP NetWeaver includes a Sun-certified Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.3-compliant application server. The next release will conform with J2EE 1.4. SAP NetWeaver supports all major Java standards, including Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs), the J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA), JNDI, and JDBC. Furthermore, since 2001, SAP has been an active participant in the Java Community Process. SAP NetWeaver uses a model-driven approach to development that makes heavy use of application metadata to simplify and expedite the development process. This declarative, model-driven environment significantly reduces development efforts and makes it easier for business analysts to create business solutions using a code-free environment such as SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer.

What development tools are available for Java developers?

SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio provides Java developers a standards-based and fully featured development environment. It is based on Eclipse, a popular open source development environment, and it provides support for the full range of J2EE development tasks. Since ...

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