difference of J2EE Applications

[Former Member]

what is the difference between J2EE applications developed using WAS and other Application server.

Is the Netweaver Web Application Server mainly used for developing J2EE Applications

[Former Member]

Hi,

There are many Web Application server that are available in the market. Each of them try to focus on Specific Customers.

Lets take simple example SAP's NetWeaver. SAP has got its own Application Server called the WAS6.0, 6.2 and now 6.4. These type of servers are suitable to run any SAP developed applications. If we use them to run any other middleware products we might need extra plugins.

J2EE applications can be developed using WebSphere Studio, WebLogic, Jbuilder, JBoss, Netweaver Studio and many more available studios. They are all based on Eclipse- which is an Open Source IDE. Every Big firm used the common IDE and added it's own components to support thier own applications.

So J2EE applications that you develop will be the same But you have to add extra plugins in the form of Jar files.

[Former Member]

Besides being a fully J2EE compliant server, SAP's J2EE Engine has some proprietaries features and capabilites.

Some of them are listed in this Fact List.

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sapportals.km.docs/documents/a1-8-4/sap web application server fact list.article