Comments on: SAP Web Development Options

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:32:29 +0000

Nice post mate

By: cgutjahr

cgutjahr — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:17:32 +0000

Hi Oliver,

You are basically correct. Couple of points..

- SAP includes several ‘translators’ which allow access to ABAP-based APIs. These include XML-based, JCA-based, .NET connectors and one of their own called the JCO connector.

- Actually SAP has their own JAVA Application Server. So they have applications that run on either Java or ABAP.

Hope that helps.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:02:34 +0000

On my point of view, additionnal notables considerations are :
- Java apps with SAP needs middlewares to “translate” requests from Java to ABAP and inversely. Performance may be affected.
- Java apps run on a different platform than ABAP apps (not the same WAS). ABAP-based apps use a WAS integrated in the backend.

Right?

Regards,
Oliver