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SAP Mentor Program and Identity Management Implementation Guidelines




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SAP Developer Network Newsletter
28 November 2007

1.    New SAP Mentor Program

2.    Implementation Guidelines on SAP NetWeaver Identity Management

3.    Consuming ABAP Web Services Using Flex

4.    Distributing Development Tools Made Easier

5.    Analyzing Java Collections Usage with Memory Analyzer

6.    EAF: The Leading Prerequisite for Enterprise SOA

 
   
 

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1.  New SAP Mentor Program

The new SAP Mentor Program is designed to find and promote the best active SAP experts in the world. The program gives SAP mentors direct and early access to information, and helps them spread knowledge within their network. Learn more about how SAP mentors can help to improve SAP products and processes in this new blog from Chief Community Evangelist Mark Finnern.

2.  Implementation Guidelines on SAP NetWeaver Identity Management

SAP NetWeaver Product Management provides two new implementation guidelines for SAP NetWeaver Identity Management: Provisioning Framework for SAP Systems: Use Cases (PDF 316 KB) and Provisioning Framework for SAP Systems: Connectivity (PDF 392 KB). Also check out the blog from SAP Product Manager Kristian Lehment, who offers links to related downloads, training sessions, and forums.

3.  Consuming ABAP Web Services Using Flex

Check out a cool new Adobe Flex application created by Ed Herrmann and Dan McWeeney of Colgate-Palmolive, and Matthias Zeller of Adobe, for Community Day at SAP TechEd '07. No prior experience with Flex is necessary!

4.  Distributing Development Tools Made Easier (PDF 64 KB)

In order to leverage the Eclipse platform as much as possible for development and modeling tools, SAP is now adopting Eclipse's Update Server technology for SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio. This article explains how this changes the delivery of Developer Studio, and how you can benefit when distributing SAP's development tools in your organization.

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SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment
Trials and Downloads

5.  Analyzing Java Collections Usage with Memory Analyzer

Employing the use of heap dumps and the Memory Analyzer tool, SAP developer Krum Tsvetkov answers the tough questions that come up at development time. Learn more about SAP Memory Analyzer.

6.  EAF: The Leading Prerequisite for Enterprise SOA (PDF 284 KB)

In this article from SAP Insider, Gil Gomez of SAP Service Solutions introduces the new SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework (EAF). Learn how SAP EAF provides the methodology and discipline required to document business processes, as well as reduce the complexity of enterprise SOA environments.