MASTERING ENTERPRISE SOA WITH SAP NETWEAVER AND MYSAP ERP

Book excerpt: Special Features: · SAP is the leading vendor of ERP solutions; in late 2006, most of its clients will be forced to upgrade to the ESA-based NetWeaver platform· ESA is the framework on which all future SAP applications will be built· The author is collaborating with SAP on the development and review of this book, ensuring it will be authoritative and up-to-date About The Book: This book is divided into three parts. The first provides an overview of the core building blocks of SAP's new Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA), and shows how ESA works with the NetWeaver platform as well as mySAP ERP. Part 2 then provides a step-by-step action plan for designing ESA-based SAP applications. The final part provides in-depth case examples showing how to build various SAP services and applications using the NetWeaver development tools, plus third-party tools.