SAP System Architecture and WebAS
Many of SAP’s latest products over the last few years, including ECC, are built upon a relatively new and very powerful platform called Web Application Server, or WebAS. WebAS offers an “open” front-end in that it speaks the most popular computer communication languages—HTML, XML, Web Services, and traditional “SAP.” WebAS offers the programmers who help customize it a choice, too—SAP’s very own and very powerful ABAP/4 language or the industry standard Java. Finally, WebAS continues to provide an “open” back-end. That is, many database versions and releases are supported in which to house all the data and configuration information that help create a solution rather than a bunch of data and a pile of equipment. ...
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