CAF

[Former Member]

Hi SAPieans,

caf core related documents in the portal ce environment.

caf integration from wdjava,vc,BPM,do any one have the documentation help for the following.

Regards,

Aswin Chandra Girmaji

[Former Member]

1. CAF is composition tool; it helps in developing and deploying the composite applications that follows ESA (Enterprise service architecture).
2. It’s highly supports collaborative and business process across different system and beyond that system
3. These composites get data and functions in the form of services and we apply business logic on that data and represent it with the help of UI
4. CAF provides developer and process owner to concentrate more on business logic

Why?

1. The main purpose of CAF core is implements the business logic - as Application Service (AS) and business objects -as Entity Service.
2. It will carry only essential stuff which had no user interaction
3. So the elements in CAF referred as SERVICES.
4. The functionality you have implemented can be exposed as web services directly which can’t be done in WD. Of course exposing  of web services  can be done Using EJB , but its more efficient and time consuming because it has object-oriented data mapping behind the entity service and even CRUD(create, read, update, delete) will generates automatically this reduce the coding work .

Uses

1. It mainly focus on business logic
2. We can connect external system using CAF via RFCs, web services.
3. We can use the existing RFC/WS to fetch the required attributes/methods in order to develop new services without starting from the starch. 

Regards,

Ragav