Blogs posted September 2003

If you’re wondering why the topic sounds so out of place, don’t… because I assure you, the meaning will unfold in politically correct ways in the course of this post. Today, with this weblog, I take a very excited first step into... Read More »

In the last few weeks I was asked the same question twice: “How can I access my pictures that are stored somewhere in a database?” In one case the pictures were already stored in the database, and in the other it was under... Read More »

What is URL Mangling? Usually when accessing a website, the URL of the page is shown exactly as entered. However, for BSP applications, once a URL is entered, it has a nasty habit of changing itself quickly. This process we call URL mangling and... Read More »

I’m off to SAP TechEd this week in Basel. Fantastic. It was a bit of a bumpy start – the online-registration process was a bit of a shambles, and I had to ring up to complete the transaction as the webpage (javascript?) was broken. Not... Read More »

Every once in a while, this error message comes back to haunt us: In synchronized translation: “BSP Exception: The URL does not contain a full domain specification (ls0028 instead of ls0028.wdf.sap-ag.de).” Lovingly, this is... Read More »

“ERP is the begining, and not the end,” said Dr. Mark Cotteleer from the Harvard Business School. Well, you don’t have to attend one of his lectures to notice the revival of ERP. Certainly, this is boosted by the promise of... Read More »

This week I attended a demonstration of how J2EE debugging works with the new Netweaver Java IDE and SAP WebAS 6.40. It was a demo with a real wow-factor. Remotely debugging business applications through firewalls, not something you see everyday.... Read More »

Currently, we are processing a problem with the following text: We have a <u>stateless</u> BSP application. After a predefined time, we would like all inactive sessions to be deleted from ICM, and then the user must be forced to... Read More »

So I took a day off on either side of the weekend and between spending time with my son (and my Playstation 2) I went through a stack of old InfoWorlds and came across this gem: “Showing laudable foresight, Sun is using the uniquely onerous... Read More »

BSP pages contain, effectively, HTML. When binary objects are requested, they are placed in the MIME repository and referenced from there. However, it is often necessary to handle binary objects/documents during the runtime of the program. It is... Read More »