Other ERP Providers

Team-Fly

SAP is the market leader when it comes to providing ERP systems. There are, however, other ERP providers, and understanding where they are going with respect to Java will help you to understand the importance of the language. One of the main goals of the ERP industry is to allow third-party software to integrate into the main ERP system. Integration through Java seems to be picking up momentum in this area.

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Figure 1.1: Third party applications accessing SAP through Java

IBM has introduced a package called VisualAge that allows Java programs to tie into ERP systems with relative ease. VisualAge for Java is an integrated development environment for creating Web-enabled enterprise applications. This tool provides support for building, testing, and integrating 100 percent pure Java applications and components like applets.

Oracle

Oracle has embraced the Java language with a full suite of Java products that provide comprehensive support for the new Java 2 Enterprise Edition standards. Oracle's Java tool set includes the following items.

  • Oracle Business Component for Java with Oracle JDeveloper 3.0 delivers a 100 percent Java- and XML-driven framework that simplifies component design, application deployment, and business rules.

  • JSP (Java Server Page) Support is a tool for developing and debugging dynamic HTML clients for Enterprise JavaBeans and CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) applications, and is integrated with the JDeveloper application.

  • Oracle Application Server supports Business Components for Java, such as Enterprise JavaBeans, Java Servlets, and JavaServer Pages.

More information is available at www.oracle.com/java.

PeopleSoft

Java is tightly integrated in PeopleSoft's new People Tools Internet Architecture. This new release includes a full suite of powerful enterprise application integration tools such as Application Messaging, Business Components, and Business Interlink, all of which are based on-or are fully capable of being integrated with-Java.

Intentia International

Intentia International is a Swedish firm that has converted its existing ERP software, Movex, which was written in RPG, to Java. Though this vendor is a relatively small player in the ERP world, the fact that the company converted its entire ERP suite to Java is significant.

J.D. Edwards

J.D. Edwards views Java as a critical language for the future of ERP and as a crucial component to an effective e-commerce strategy for OneWorld, J.D. Edwards's ERP solution. The company has implemented Java for both the client side and the server side of the OneWorld Enterprise computing model. This strategy takes the form of the OneWorld Java Server and is designed to conform to Sun Microsystems specifications for 100 percent pure Java compatibility. Currently, the OneWorld Java Server uses Java 2 and Enterprise Java Beans version 2.0.

For more information, visit www.jdedwards.com/technology.

Baan

Baan has announced that as a part of a three-pronged Internet strategy it will develop a new Java-based Web user interface for all Baan applications. However, at the time of this writing, no concrete Java-based interfaces are available.


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Java & BAPI Technology for SAP
Java & BAPI Technology for SAP
ISBN: 761523057
EAN: N/A
Year: 1998
Pages: 199

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