It was only a few days ago that SAP NetWeaver was certified to be the first commercial application server to fully support the Java EE 5 standard – but already we have the version of SAP NetWeaver that achieved this remarkable status.
The introduction of Java EE 5 is arguably the most important landmark for the development of enterprise-ready Java applications in years. Java EE 5 has totally rearranged many areas of the Java Enterprise Edition, with a focus on enhancing ease of development and developer productivity in general. SAP introduced a preview version of SAP NetWeaver, which already exhibited a lot of Java EE 5 functionality, on this year’s JavaOne conference and also published it in SDN. The replacement of this preview by a successor that now covers the entire set of Java EE 5 standards comes earlier than expected – and obviously to the surprise of many competitors. For more information on SAP’s position towards Java EE, please check this SDN page
Does this mean that SAP will focus more on competing with Weblogic,Websphere,++ as a general(non-SAP) Java EE application platform ? Or will the main focus still be to support SAP’s Java applications?
Regards
Dagfinn
I definitely appreciate that SAP seems to be aware of how far they have been from standards within the J2EE world for years now and that SAP is trying to close the gap. So I really don’t want to talk down this news.
I just stay sceptical. Still not having a J2EE 1.4 server in “real life production line” and at the same time creating a “marketing server” (hopefully it doesn’t stay at this level) makes me wonder…
No offense! Best regards
Detlev (who is moving into the WebSphere world soon… still with hands on NetWeaver…)