MDM Custom Application using WD - WDJ / WDA preferred?

[Former Member]

Hello,

Is there any preferred approach in developing custom WD application for MDM? So far we see that MDM Java APIs are used from WDJ application.

I came to know that WDA can also be used? Which is a preferred approach? Guess MDM Java API's are more matured to handle custom applications.

Any hints?

Thanks,

Dhanz

[Former Member]

Thanks for the response.

[nitin_mahajan2]

A very good question.

Being from Java b/g i would say Java, but to be fair, in my project we are using both MDM java for the front end and ABAP for data load. The issues that we faced in ABAP were

- The user id has to be passed in Upper Case, though MDM user ids are case sensitive, for ABAP it accepted user ids in only Upper case.

- Some limitations in Matching strategy

I would personally prefer Java over ABAP any day as Java being more extendible and as SAP suggests, use ABAP only if you are staying with in ECC. If your landscape comprises of systems outside ECC/SAP, stay with Java.

Cheers!!!

Nitin