Blogs posted September 2006

XML as core technology is essential to the world of IT. We use XML for data exchange between business partners, integration of applications, to configure our programs, for the wording of rule sets using domain specific languages, from code... Read More »

Update Oct, 18th 2006: Functions are now also avaliable as a Web Service. You can download the WSDL and then start developing using the Web Service. Username and Password for HTTP Basic Authentication is SDNCONTEST. Piers Harding provided already a... Read More »

In my Blog Setup data encryption between RFC Client and Web AS ABAP with SNC I showed how SNC can be setup for RFC Connections. Here’s the promised use: Single Sign On with External ID implemented in Ruby. This is possible with the Function... Read More »

h2. Section 4: Create PartnerSelection view METHOD if_htmlb_tableview_iterator~render_cell_start . DATA: lr_col_check TYPE REF TO cl_crm_ic_checkbox. * Adjustment depends on column CASE p_column_key. WHEN ‘SELECT_FLAG’. CREATE OBJECT... Read More »

It’s always a bad idea to save username and password in PHP Scripts. Sometimes it is required i.e. for the Logon data to a SAP Web AS when using a Web Service. But there is an alternative: Authentication with X.509... Read More »

Secure Network Connection (SNC) is the SAP technology provided for Network and Transport Layer Security. In this Blog I will provide a how to guide how to enable data encryption for RFC connections to ABAP back ends. How to avoid problems Do only... Read More »

Monitor and Manage Communication Channels We all know that the Process Integration capabilities of SAP NetWeaver (aka SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure, aka SAP NetWeaver XI) are improving dramatically with each Support Package Stack. A perfect... Read More »

We are constantly striving to provide you with the best possible means of getting the information you want here on SDN/BPX and with that we have made some modifications to our blog and podcast RSS feeds. Please take a minute to subscribe to the new... Read More »

I just talked with a customer who only wants alerts in the Universal Worklist. Some customers end up with a Universal Worklist with only alerts and another Universal Worklist with only workflow items. There are many things you can do. However, for... Read More »

Implementation of Serial Tree Transducers In the last instalment of this weblog series I described a divide and conquer approach for processing huge XML documents. Huge XML documents often have a simple structure and consist of wide trees but with... Read More »