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Date: Aug 20, 2003
SAP AG certifies aSAPXcess Enterprise Business Adapter on mySAP Web Application Server (WAS) platform and its Netweaver environment.

Enterprise Business Adapter (EBA) forms the core of the aSAPXcess Integration. EBA allows integration team members to develop rapid integration scenarios that connect SAP with disparate set of application systems and technology solutions across the extended enterprise. 

EBA's Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based design provides out- of- the- box connectivity to SAP processes in the form of Services and Events. The adapter services can easily be assembled into the integration application and invoked from any application platform using multiple protocols viz. J2EE, XML, TCP/IP, HTTP, SOAP. 

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Key Features 

EBA is fully J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA) compliant thus providing support for container based Connection, Transaction and Security management as per JCA specifications. Not only can it be deployed on any managed J2EE application server environment, a special release of the platform compatible with non-managed java environment is also available. Its JCA based architecture allows the platform to be portable, interoperable, secure and very scalable for enterprise needs. EBA allows connectivity with all SAP/mySAP business applications including SAP R/3 3.1H to 4.70 R/3 Enterprise and Web Application Server rel. 6.10 and 6.20. 

EBA allows connectivity with SAP via multiple SAP services and APIs including: 

aSAPXcess uses a J2EE technology based application model and uses J2EE application server as the integration server. This brings significant cost savings as J2EE application servers cost much lower than proprietary integration server products. As an option, a J2EE application server comes bundled with aSAPXcess at no additional cost. 

Standard connectivity with SAP via the JCA (J2EE Connector Architecture) compliant aSAPXcess Business Adapter product component. JCA is the specification developed and approved by Java Community (comprising of SUN, Oracle, BEA, IBM etc.) for standards based integration of Enterprise Information Systems. 

Offers very high degree of portability, interoperability and scalability. Due to its open protocols based implementation, aSAPXcess platform can be deployed and ported on to any J2EE compatible platform. Its Web Services Oriented architecture allows seamless integration with applications on any technology platform. 

Includes toolkit based product components to build custom integration applications specific to SAP enterprises. These components have been built to allow implementation of customized integration application scenarios with SAP applications with minimum programming effort.

A complete XML based API layer is available to invoke the adapter services in SAP.
 

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