SAP NetWeaver Application Platform

The SAP NetWeaver Application Platform is completely based on the SAP Web Application Server. The majority of SAP NetWeaver components and application modules are based on the SAP Web Application Server, typically known as SAP Web AS, as introduced in the previous chapter. Here we just summarize the main features of the SAP Web AS. For greater details please refer to Chapter 2. Figure 3-4 shows the SAP Web Application Server architecture. The second and most important difference now is that the SAP Web Application Server can both run either the traditional ABAP engine or the Java engine (J2EE) so that the SAP Web AS supports the development and operation of J2EE and ABAP-based applications and Web services. ...

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