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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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Which technology standards does SAP support, and how do they help build IT solutions?

Technology standards encourage interoperability at various levels of the stack. SAP supports technology standards associated with the Java programming language, web services, and the XML Schema Definition (XSD) language, to name just a few. This enables customers to design, develop, and deploy highly flexible composite applications that sacrifice nothing in terms of execution speed, functions, or security.

Consider, for example, the SAP NetWeaver Application Server (AS), a central component of SAP NetWeaver. It is fully compliant with the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standard. This platform also supports all of the major Java technologies, including:

  • EJB

  • The Portlet Specification (JSR 168)

  • The Java Management Extensions (JMX) Specification

  • JAX-RPC 1.0 for Web Services communication

SAP has been a member of the Java Community Process since 2001, and since 2002 it has been a member of the J2EE/J2SE Executive Committee, which guides the entire Java development process. It works with other leaders in the industry, such as IBM and BEA, on advancement of new Java standards such as Service Data Objects (SDO) and Service Composition Architecture (SCA). These specifications will define the future standards on how to build composite applications based on services.

Further bolstering SAP NetWeaver's support of standard technologies is the fact that it is built on Eclipse, the open source software development ...

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