Alfresco on SAP Netweaver 7.1CE App-Server?

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mcdroemmel

Hello to everybody,

we want to create an internal application for our company on SAP Netweaver 7.1CE, using EJBs (3.0) for our business-logic and SAP ERP-Connectivity and using SAP Web-Dynpro for the UI.
This new application needs to organize external Files. For this i think about using Alfresco as CM-System.
Now my question. SAP Netweaver 7.1CE is a fully JEE5 conform Java-Application-Server. Is it possible to host Alfresco on it? Can someone tell, what to do for achieving this?
Of course it would be possible to run Alfresco on for example Tomcat and to connect from our App on the Netweaver Server via Web-Services for example. But i think it would be better to directly use Java-API in the same process for better performance.

Maybee anyone has addtional hints or tipps for my idea of using alfresco as CM-System in my Java-SAP-Environment.

Regards
m.hayk

tobiashofmann

Hi,
maybe I can help.

SAP Netweaver 7.1CE is a fully JEE5 conform Java-Application-Server. Is it possible to host Alfresco on it?

SAP claims that NW CE is a full J2EE compliant. But his doesn't matter in this case: you'll need a portlet container to run Alfresco. Tomcat isn't J2EE, it's just a portlet container. SAP added the functionality of running portlets inside CE, but what you can get from the SDN, it's not really working.

Of course it would be possible to run Alfresco on for example Tomcat and to connect from our App on the Netweaver Server via Web-Services for example. But i think it would be better to directly use Java-API in the same process for better performance.

Accessing functionality via WS is part of the CE idea. Integration of services (GP, CAF, VC) into one central repository that the user can access. In this case, a portal running on top of CE. The performance impact is minimal. Alfresco offers also various types of access to the system (WS, REST, Java-API). Putting everything on one box just because of some minimal performance %?

I suggest that you run Alfresco on a separate server and use CE only for accessing the repository via WS/REST/etc.

br,
Tobias

Support of JSR 168 – Java Portlet Specification Version 1.0 in SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/d06ee86d-535b-2a10-adac-b8249a57fda1