SO we have tons of .Net code written around the BOE xi 4.0 .Net SDK. We are migrating to BOE ( BIP) 4.1 we downloaded the new .Net SDK but there are no developer Docs and from the look of things they changed the Library structure for the 4.1. Why give use the .Net SDK but no docs for it ?
Question is I see the Java SDK docs but there does not seem to be any .Net SDK docs. Are they trying to abandon the .Net SDK again ( like they tried when they released xi 3.0) ? or are they just hiding the docs from us ?
-The .NET documentation from 4.0 (only Developer Guide available)
-The .NET documentation from 3.1 (Developer Guide and API Reference available)
-The Java documentation from 4.1 (Developer Guide and API Reference available)
-The website with the documentation from XI r2: http://devlibrary.businessobjects.com/BusinessObjectsXIR2/en/devsuite.htm
Well FelderCarb… so SAP is going to play the “Java is Better” game… what the flip… SO I have been using the 4.0 sdk to work with 4.1. I’m gonna hate when that stops working with a 4.2 release… Anyone have an idea why they did not release the sdk docs with the sdk ?
So, you’re saying that once we upgrade to 4.2 (we are on 4.1 now) that things we’ve written to use .NET/VBA won’t work anymore? It’s so hard to find info about .NET at the SAP site.
I’m glad I came across this post, since my team is looking to make a page on our team website where we can do some basic queries against the CMS for statuses on scheduled reports and I was going to do it in .NET.
If .NET isn’t going to work anymore then I guess I’ll have to figure out how to do it in Java…ugh.
You could do this in .NET and use the RESTful Web Services SDK instead of the regular SDK. The beauty of the RESTful Web Services is that there is no SDK to install on the development or deployment machines. You just have to have the “Web Application Container Server” running on the BOE system. The web service accepts and returns data in XML or JSON formats, and consumes HTTP requests, so it’s actually fairly easy to use.
Also, I haven’t heard anything about the .NET SDK going away (and I’m pretty plugged in to the subject, so I’m pretty sure I would know if that were the case.) However, traditionally the .NET SDK lags behind the Java SDK in both functionality and in when it’s updated. For example, when 4.0 came out there was no .NET SDK available until FP3/SP4.
I’ve only heard of RESTful recently and don’t know much about it. I’ll see what I can find on that.
I’m glad that it sounds like .NET won’t be going away, but I may have to (painfully) bite the bullet and start looking into using Java. But…first stop will be seeing what RESTful can do for us.
Yes you can use the restful services for something, but if you need todo anything they did not think of your pretty much up creek. Your also dependent on then not breaking things with patches ( like that never happens)…
The one big thing that RESTful won’t get you is access to the internal info and parameters for “classic” Crystal reports - it will only provide that info for Crystal reports created in Crystal for Enterprise.
Now comes the fun part is Oracle is no longer going to make the Java Browser plugin and the browser makers are dropping Java support. If SAP is not going to release a .Net API how else are we going to do custom portal work ?
I did notice they have a place holder for .Net api doc for the BOE 4.2 release… hoping it will see the light of day.
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