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What is sapnetweaver?

[Former Member]

hi

<b>NetWeaver is propagated by SAP as an "innovation", but is far from that. It is just another Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform) application. The 10,000 developers at SAP were unable to find a solution themselves, so they gave the project to a small Germany firm in Munich. That firm quickly saw that it was impossible to organize the chaos in SAP's code in any other way than take Eclipse and build a client out of it.</b>

<b>So NetWeaver is just another Eclipse application, with "plugins", "features" etc.</b>

Of course, SAP found itself isolated with its own ABAP language, so it decided to "embrace" Java. To do a job in Java, you need Java on the server, which means that you need a so-called "application server". There are many such application servers, each big company has written one - SAP felt it had to do too.

So take an Eclipse RCP and an application server it talks to - and you get the "innovative" NetWeaver technology.

So for you, the important thing is to get the big picture, not the marketese of SAP, which follows each and every trend around (*). To do so, go to

http://www.eclipse.org

download the "Eclipse SDK" for your platform (Linux, Windows, Mac...), then install the "Callisto" features and get comfortable with Eclipse. That is, learn how it works, what a "perspective" and what a "view" is. Learn how to add plugins and features. Then learn how to write your own Eclipse plugin. The PDE project in Eclipse offers you all you need for that.

Install a few plugins in Eclipse, play around, learn. Then program, maybe, a plugin. In doing so, you get to realize the benefits of "RCP", that is of taking a "skeleton Eclipse" and adding your own functionality to it in the form of plugins.

After you've done this, you will appreciate what SAP did - that is, exactly that: take Eclipse RCP and build a few plugins for it.

If you do this, you will know what the "NetWeavers" of this world are...

regards

ravish

<b>plz dont forget to reward points if helpful</b>

[Former Member]

Wow,

en expert speaking. I never read such a bull ****. SAP failed to write an application server!

Great ))

[Former Member]

If ever there has been a complete misunderstanding of what NetWeaver is - Ravish Goyal has just taken the prize.

Please disregard the information posted by Ravish Goyal as it's 150% incorrect about what "NetWeaver" really is.

[Former Member]

Hi Sriram,

SAP NetWeaver is a platform that works with already existing IT infrastructure to enable and manage changes. With SAP NetWeaver, one can flexibly and rapidly design, build, implement, and execute new business strategies and processes.

Go through the following links:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/ee/275c42b4e05542e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/c4e3bf90-0201-0010-418f-c40d2264...

Reward points if helpful.

Regards,

Renuka.