SAP - Netweaver SOA by Ameya Pimpalgaonkar

originally written by the authors of http://www.madeitsimple.com, SAP - Roadmap is now SOA!

SAP, world’s largest ERP manufacturers, have recently publish a road map and it says future is SOA, so what this SOA all about?

SOA - Service Oriented Architecture is an altogether new feature of SAP where SAP platform would be totally service oriented. All softwares would be converted to the webservices and launched onto the internet. With this no end user will be required to have full SAP implementation, this reduces TCO (Total cost of ownership) by more than 30% !!

For e.g an SAP tool would be developed and installed on developer’s server and developer company will convert this whole tool as a webservice, webservice is the service of a software that is consumed at a client side without actually installing it.

Now quest arises, where can i create SAP webservices?

In case of ABAP which is the programming language of SAP or rather i would say language this is getting a backstage entry with JAVA taking over. In ABAP you can create a webservice by converting your function modules into webservice. This will provide you with the WSDL URL, WSDL URL? what it is?

WSDL stands for Wevservice description language, and URL is the internet link with which the service of your software is consumed over the internet.

Now let me discuss what is Netweaver platform all about.

SAP, more specifically R/3 screens if anyone have seen, are very much technical and does not provide any user support that is why SAP came with some new tools where in developer can make use of web technoligies and languages like JAVA and .Net framework as well. With the invent of this platform, SAP started it’s journey towards openness.

SAP Netweaver is very large, or very vast landsacpe in which many components sit loosely coupled.

SAP MDM is also the newest member of this platform.

Netweaver development is done in the SAP provided tool named “NWDS - Netweaver developer studio”

Major coding languages are Javascript, HTML & CSS for styles, JAVA.

This tool provides perspective which is exclusively designed for JAVA , Enterpise portal ,MI (Mobile infrastructure), MDM.

one can use any of the provided prespective and code.

In the following articles i will discuss about FAQs asked on Netweaver platform. Further we will move towards understnding some of the Netweaver components like Enterprise portal, SAP MDM, Webdynpro, Visual composer and adobe flex.

Ameya Pimpalgaonkar Ameya Pimpalgaonkar is an SAP consultant and is the owner of http://www.madeitsimple.com - simplified resources on CAT, MBA, SAP, JAVA, Healthcare and much more..

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Ameya Pimpalgaonkar is an SAP consultant and is the owner of http://www.madeitsimple.com - simplified resources on CAT, MBA, SAP, JAVA, Healthcare and much more..