Hi Chantalle,
thank you for your perfect description of the status of NetWeaver Java. You deserve the "correct answer".
Indeed, SAP - e.g. Benny - wasted our time for years, holding the prospect and keeping us hoping that there would be a further development in NetWeaver Java.
Re: When will SAP Java AS for EE 6 see the light?
Exactly nothing happened.
You need no crystal ball to know the answer to Steffen's question at the end of the thread above, but Benny may answer himself that still nothing happened, not even in the Java EE 6 WebProfile. Maybe they are stuck with JPA 1.0 - 2.0 incompatibility and classloading issues. Maybe they did not even start. We will never know.
The main problem is: What do we do with the dozens of WD Java Screens?
Reimplement using SAP UI5?
Reimplement using a cool JSF framework?
Try to get them running inside Tomcat - we have the Web Dynpro Toolkit for Tomcat as a template?
Keep WD Java on NW Java for a transition period, calling business logic using WebServices running in Tomcat EE?
I am looking forward to further discussion, maybe we will find time for a cup of coffee before christmas
.
And I am looking forward to be able to use new-fashioned stuff like Java 7/8, Java EE 7 and state of the art development processes with maven and git.
Cheers,
Rolf