Friday, March 25, 2005
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Some comment from search result about - Weblogic
Bea's workshop VS Eclipse
in my experience, if you develop for Weblogic (especially 8.1), you can't do much wrong with the workshop. It simplifies the development process greatly, it integrates very well with Weblogic and it is a very comfortable editor / debugger / IDE. The downside is the consumption of RAM. Especially with the process flow tool, the Ram usage is HUGE.I don't really like eclipse, have worked with it though. Eclipse is nice for everything that does not use BEA (as I said before, BEA stuff is _very_ well integrated into the Workshop). Of course you could develop for Weblogic with Eclipse, but why would you want to?
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JCA Adapter for SAP
I am looking for alternatives for developing a J2EE application on BEAWebLogic Server 8.1 that connects to SAP using the Java Connectorarchitecture (JCA).I know BEA offers an Adapter made by IWaySoftware, but we are lookingfor other alternatives. Does anyone know other vendors for that.
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In addition to the iWay adapter there are some other solutions that areavailable. First, Weblogic Portal customers can freely use the SAPPortlet suite which does not use JCA for connectivity. More informationon the Portlets is available here:http://www.bea.com/framework.jsp?CNT=index.htm&FP=/content/products/more/portlet_sap/The portlets are primarily user-interface driven, but can also exposeraw SAP data via Workshop controls. Underneath the covers the Portletswere implemented by extending the SAP BAPI interface which is exposedvia a SAP provided Java library. Feel free to download the Portlets forSAP and take a look, they are fully functional. You could write yourown connectivity by using the SAP Java library as well.With more recently versions of SAP some business objects can be exposedvia Web Services. Finally, you might want to contact the BEA partnerwhich was instrumental in creating the SAP Portlets. They are SierraAtlantic ( http://www.sierraatlantic.com/ ), headquartered in Californiabut primarily an India based offshore development group. They do workfor most of the integration vendors.