In the beginning of last week, SAP released 12 Simple Sample Applications for Enterprise Services Consumption (Simple Sample Apps) using the SOA rollout platform Enterprise Services Workplace. These Apps are use cases for the most commonly used Enterprise Services, based on several SAP consumption technologies. These Apps are ready to to use and run in the ES Workplace environment. They also include technical information and documents, programming code, implementation models and demo data. SAP customers and partners can also download and install these Apps locally, in order to test-run them using the backend system of the hosted ES Workplace that they’re using.
SAP announced the Simple Sample Apps in the beginning of 2009 and already the SOA community responded well. Beta testers from all around the world gave their feedback, saying that the Simple Sample Apps are the proper way to take the first steps towards the Enterprise Services consumption, using a comprehensive and straightforward manner.
The initial 12 Simple Sample Apps cover 35 of the most popular Enterprise Services, as well as 16 business objects currently shipped by SAP. They include several business use cases from various industries. For each Simple Sample App, the following items are available upon download:
- An online demo version
- A detailed documentation on how to use the application
- An archive ready to be imported in an SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.1 EhP1 (SAP NW CE 7.1.1)
- A list of the enterprise services consumed by the App
- Sample testing data
Each download sample also include a detailed guideline on how to install SAP NW CE 7.1.1 on your local PC and how to import an run the application archive.
According to SAP:
Simple Sample Apps provide several benefits. First of all, you can take them as a starting point and accelerator for own SOA projects, just by lowering the hurdle to deal with new technology. The apps demonstrate end-to-end what it takes exactly to build a little composite application, using enterprise services that SAP delivers today. Secondly, they are instantiated Best Practices for testing and quality assurance in SOA projects, since a running Simple Sample App is the final proof point that an enterprise service does what it should do. And last but not least, Simple Sample Apps are a great tool for demo and training purposes, as they help everybody explore and understand the essentials of enterprise services consumption in a nutshell.
Additional links and resources
- Get started with the Simple Sample Apps by downloading them in the Enterprise Services Workplace
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