The Web Components of the SAP Web Application Server
As it has been explained in Chapter 2, the basis layer of SAP R/3 Enterprise is SAP Web Application Server 6.20, which provides capabilities to communicate to the Internet via execution of Web applications with an additional set of processes. With SAP Web Application Server, several type of requests can be processed, such as ABAP applications, executed and managed by the ABAP runtime environment (classic client/server processing that we know), HTTP or HTTPS requests coming from the Internet handled by the Internet Communication Framework (and then communicated to the ABAP runtime environment via Business Server Pages, for example—see the description of BSPs later in this chapter), and Java ...
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