The SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment is becoming more and more a focus at TechEd, and because of this, SAP is going to offer a wide variety of sessions and topics dealing with building composite applications and otherwise realizing SAP's eSOA concept. But: the more options one has, the harder it becomes to decide which choices are the best. Even reading and understanding all 30 CE session descriptions (hands-on and lectures) will take some hours to get an overview. Therefore we try to help you to find those sessions that fit for your purposes.
The best approach is a role-based approach. You know very well if your role is more technical-oriented, like a software developer or architect, more process-oriented like a business process expert, or more decision-oriented like a development manager, product manager, or sales expert. Based on these roles, we would like to make some recommendations that will help you avoid getting lost in the jungle of TechEd sessions.
This blog identifies the TechEd sessions that will suit people in more technical roles. See below a list of CE sessions that are beneficial for software developers and/or architects.
CE102: A Quick Introduction to Java EE 5 for Developers
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) is the industry standard for developing portable, robust, scalable, and secure server-side applications in Java. It brings developers' productivity to the next level by leveraging a number of simplifying approaches, thus also making it easier and faster to learn and apply. This talk highlights the key new features introduced with the latest version of the platform. Java EE 5 heavily stresses ease of development and simplification of the programming model. This session walks you through the major technology updates, including annotations, dependency injection, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 business interfaces and interceptors, Java Persistence, JavaServer Faces, Web services, etc. After attending the session you will be able to realize the benefits of building enterprise applications leveraging the Java EE standards. You will also have the knowledge and guidelines necessary to start developing your own Java EE 5 applications.
CE105: Java Standards and Open-Source with SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment
SAP opens its platform to Java developers and they can provide enterprise-scale solutions on top of SAP NetWeaver using the latest mature standards, popular Java techniques and frameworks. This talk highlights Java standards as a reliable long-term programming approach for customers and partners. Learn the key business and industry standards available in the SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment. Which of them are actively driven by SAP and why? Discussing the integration of open-source software, we share the latest news about SAP's participation in Eclipse projects. See the benefits of providing Java EE and standard-based business services in the enterprise SOA and how they can interact with SAP's composition frameworks. Also consider SAP's third-party certification offerings for Java.
CE110: Web Dynpro Java - What's New in SAP NetWeaver 7.1 Composition Environment
See here the newest and hottest things that Web Dynpro has achieved in the latest release and how it will be continued.
CE151: Developing Composite Applications with SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.1
Composite applications empower companies to drive innovative business processes, leveraging existing IT investments. SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment provides a methodology and toolset to efficiently develop and manage composite applications, following enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) principles. SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment combines infrastructure components such as SAP Web Application Server, Web Dynpro-based user interfaces, business process management for workflow support, and an infrastructure for service and business object definition. Learn how composite applications look and feel from a developer's point of view and create a complete composite process from scratch. Let us show you how SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment empowers you to create, compose, and orchestrate services as key building blocks of your new application. Do it yourself! Take SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment and do the following: • Model business objects and develop new business functionality as application services • Use SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer to rapidly create a user interface for your application • Create new collaborative processes weaving everything together by means of guided procedures
CE350: Advanced Service Composition with SAP Composition Application Framework Capabilities of SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment
Composite applications empower companies to drive innovative business processes, leveraging existing IT investments. SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment provides a methodology and toolset to efficiently develop and manage composite applications, following enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) principle. SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment combines infrastructure components such as SAP NetWeaver Application Server, Web Dynpro-based user interfaces, business process management for workflow support, and an infrastructure for service and business object definition. Learn how composite applications look and feel from a developer's point of view and create a composite process using advanced service composition from scratch. Let us show you how SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment empowers you to create, compose, and orchestrate services as key building blocks of your new application.
CE352: Getting the Best from the Web Dynpro Framework
The Web Dynpro framework is the runtime environment within which your Web Dynpro application will be executed. In order to write the most efficient code possible, you need to know what functionality is provided for you by the Web Dynpro framework and write your application to make full use of it. This session shows what functionality the Web Dynpro framework provides for you and then shows how to make the best use of it. Also included are the Web Dynpro phase model, and navigation and error handling.
Hint: SAP cannot guarantee that each of the above mentioned sessions will take place at each TechEd location.
We will continue this type of blogs: in coming days there will be more blogs with recommendations for other roles, like business process experts, managers, etc.
By the way here the link to SAP TechEd homepage.
Stay tuned!
