This all-new technical reference guide shows you how you can use RIAs – Rich Internet Applications (for reporting and analysis tasks, for example) – to reduce the load on your database and your application server.Readers learn how to shift all layout information – and even parts of the application logic – from the SAP Web Application Server, to the client. You’ll uncover the advantages of the RIA approach, learn how to solve layout issues, and implement client-side data retrieval through Web services. The author selected Flash MX 2004, an ideal tool for developing modern business applications, as the front-end technology, and shows you how to leverage its greatly improved graphical formatting options and comparatively simple development techniques, to make your project a success.
From the Table of Contents:
HTML, Flash, and the Path to Rich Internet Applications
The Web AS in the Backend
The Web AS in the Frontend
Rich Internet Applications with Flash Plug-in
Comparing RIA Frontends
All key Web AS associated aspects related to RIA
Detailed guidance on business-relevant features in Flash MX 2004
Complete multimedia sample application included
Bernd Will
Bernd Will has been a SAP-specialist at Siemens since 1988. He has been working in the SAP environment since 1994. At the moment he is working with Siemens clients on the connection to the internal SAP-System. He also carries out “research” on how far Rich Applications are suitable as a strategic IT-basis for this connection.
SAP SAP PRESS Essentials Rich Internet Applications RIA SAP Web Application Server SAP Web AS Web AS Flash