SOA beginner question.

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I have worked a lot on abap and on PI 7.0,

I wnated to know if I could start studying SOA.Iam not a lot into Java,is there any component on soa that focuses end to end scenarios only in abap?..would an abap,XI person be able to stay in soa and take up full projects without knowing java?.

Like in PI its not mandatory to know java component.. we can still work around the same..

before getting into soa wanted some suggestions from the soa experts.

please advice me..!

Thanks a Lot.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The short answer is yes. The long answer is depends on the nature of your project.

eSOA development cycle is as below:

1) Service modeling and definition - use ESR (ES Builder) to model the service, operation, BO etc. No programming needed.

2) Service implementaion - can implement the business logic in ABAP workbench, which is a typical scenario.

3) Service consumption - you can consume the service in ABAP workbench as well. You will need Java skill if UI is implemented with WDP Java and service layer with CAF. Visual composer does not need any programming language either.

- julius