S.No | Feature Description | SAP WAS 6.40 | BEA Weblogic 8.1 |
Java programming model |
1 | J2EE Supported version | Full support to J2EE 1.3.Its runs on J2SE 1.4. | J2EE 1.3 |
2 | Full XML Support | Yes | Yes |
Other Programming languages support |
3 | Support for other languages | Yes. Full support for ABAP | Not available |
Web Services |
4 | Full Web Services Support | Yes | Yes |
5 | Support for private UDDI registries | Yes | No |
Database Support |
6 | JDBC for access to Databases supported | Supports all popular RDBMS databases if appropriate drivers are available. Shipped with MaxDB ,DB from SAP. DB is a part of kernel | DB2,SQL Server 2000, Oracle 9i, Informix, Sybase |
7 | Connection Pooling | Yes. Taken care through Visual Administrator | Yes. |
Application development/Testing |
8 | Ease of Development | Yes. Sample applications included. Bundled with Eclipse an IDE for application development and deployment. Built in JDI (Java Development Infrastructure) components as DTR(Design Time repository), CBS(Component Build Server) and Build tool are available for better application development. | Sample Application included. Weblogic workshop is the IDE comes with 8.1 platform. |
9 | Support for change management | Built in CMS available | Not Available. |
10 | Support to Testing tools | Inbuilt unit testing methodologies like ATS, JLin, e-CATT. Testing guidelines provided | Supported |
11 | Debugging support | Yes | Yes |
12 | Support for life cycle management | Yes. Integration with Solution Manager. | Not available |
13 | Interoperability with SAP NetWeaver solution products | Yes. In fact, all the SAP NetWeaver products like XI, MI, BI etc run on WAS | Not applicable |
Web server support |
14 | HTTP Server | Yes. | Yes |
15 | Web server plug ins | Yes. | Yes |
Security |
16 | Basic Authentication and Authorization | Yes | Yes |
17 | Support for JAAS for enhanced security | Yes | Yes |
18 | SSO support | Yes | Yes |
Platform Support |
19 | Platforms supported | Microsoft Windows(2000,NT,XP), Linux, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, HP-UX. | Windows2K/NT/XP, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, True64, OpenVMS, Linux (Miracle, RedHat, SuSE), SCO UnixWare |
Application connectivity |
20 | JMS Support with MDB | Yes | Yes |
21 | JNDI support | Yes | Yes |
Performance support |
22 | Support for integration with third-party tools | Yes | Yes |
Administration and workload management |
23 | Browser based administration for remote administration across firewalls | Yes. Visual Administrator is used. | Yes |
24 | Clustering support | Yes. Taken care through Visual Administrator and Enqueue Server. | Yes |
25 | Offline Server Configuration support | Yes. GUI based Config tool is provided | Not available |
Logging |
26 | Server Log viewer | Available as a monitoring tool with search facility | Through log files. |
27 | Support to third party plug ins | Yes | Yes |
