xml parser certificate

[Former Member]

QA1: In our project, we used the third-party xml tool such as Jdom to process the xml document. Is this kind of action break the rule of certification?

QA2: if the answer to QA1 is true, is it possible to integrate third-party xml tool in project and meanwhile conform to certification?

[thorsten_nordholmsbirk · Accepted solution]

Hi Mints

What kind of certification are you talking about?

Regards,

Thorsten

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Thorsten

Here the certification means "NW-XI-AF certification" (Netweaver XI Adapter Framework certification). The referenced document is named "NW-XI-AF3.0 Test Catalog for Certification".

In chapter 3.2.7 J2EE Resource Access

The usage of J2EE resources instead of native Java resources can hardly be tested. Hence

the vendor has to answer the following questions:

1. If the adapter must be able to parse XML documents, do you use the SAP J2EE XML

parser libraries (e.g. SAXParser)?

2. Do you use the SAP J2EE application threads?

3. Do you use the SAP J2EE Transaction Manager?

If one of them is answered with “No” the certification is not possible. In future this

questionnaire might be replaced by test cases.

while in our adapter development, we used other xml processing tools, this is where the question comes from.

Best Regards

Mints

[thorsten_nordholmsbirk · Accepted solution]

Hi Mints,

I guess it might be worthwhile for you to convert the XML-processing portion of your adapter to use SAPs XML Toolkit instead of what you are using now. Unless you are using something that provides some really special functionality, I don't think this should pose a huge challange. SAPs libraries are pretty complete, supporting both SAX, DOM and XSLT transformations, schema validation, etc. Check it out at http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/36/ef353e39011a38e10000000a114084/content.htm.

Regards,

Thorsten