SAPJCo

[Former Member]

Is there plans for a pure java SAPJCo? I would rather not have to deal with OS specific libraries and I would think it would be better for SAP to not have to keep the different versions up.

[Former Member]

Hi Nathan,

JCO is based on SAP's RFC (remote function call) which is based on IBM's CPI-C protocol.

SAP's implementation of the CPI-C stack is written in C language. For windows based systems this is represented by the librfc32.dll. This implementation is heavily used in the SAP R/3 environment. Compared to that its usage by the JAVA Connector is marginal (in SAP's eyes).

So I do not think that SAP will ever develop a new CPI-C implementation in pure JAVA.

Best Regards

Frank

[Former Member]

As I know,

JCO is 100% java, but it use some RFC to connect WAS ABAP, so there are some OS specific libraries like DLLs.