BI Java SDK (New) 

 

Technical Data

Function is	New
Release	Software Component ·         Component: SAP_BW ·         Release: 3.5
Assignment to Application Component	BW-BEX-SDK BI Java Software Development Kit
Country Setting	Valid for all countries

 

Use

 

As of Release 3.5, you can develop your own applications to access BW or non-BW data. With the Business Intelligence Java Software Development Kit (BI Java SDK), Java developers can create custom BI applications and deploy them on SAP NetWeaver’s J2EE server. The BI Java SDK is new with BW Release 3.5.

 

Use the BI Java SDK together with the BI Java Connectors to access data from a wide variety of multidimensional (OLAP) or relational data.

 

Benefits

 

The benefits of the BI Java SDK include the following:

 

·        Flexibility ‑ Custom build Java applications using SAP BW or non-SAP BW data

·        Simplicity ‑ Easy to use and learn:

¡        Simplified command interfaces hide the complexity of underlying low-level data access protocols such as multidimensional expressions (MDX) and structured query language (SQL)

¡        Leverages resources, skills, and infrastructure customers already have

¡        Provides complete documentation on an API level (Javadocs), tutorials, and examples

·        Interoperability ‑ Based on open and accepted standards:

¡        Common access APIs (Java Metadata Interface)

¡        Common metamodels (Common Warehouse Metamodel)

¡        Common interchange format (XML Metadata Interchange)

¡        Connection management (J2EE Connector Architecture)

·        Portability ‑ Interfaces available for writing applications against a wide variety of data sources:

¡        Java Database Connectivity

¡        XML for Analysis

¡        OLE DB for OLAP

¡        SAP Query

 

 

See also:

·        BI Java SDK documentation

·        BI Java SDK:  Business Scenario

·        BI Java Connectors documentation