Accessing SAP Tables from a Java application

Hi,
I know, the forum is called "Web Application Server" but because it's Java question I hope to get answers here.
I have a small stand-alone Java application that needs to access (read-only) all records from a SAP table. Is there a possibility to do this without writing a BAPI before?
thanks a lot
Paul

Hi Paul,
You can use JCo to call the standard remote-enabled function RFC_READ_TABLE. There is one annoyance involved with this function, though: each row of data returned is packed into a single string, so you must either specify a delimiter and use e.g. String.split(...) to parse out the column values or use the returned metadata to extract each value based on position and length attributes of the column.
Another option (although this is usually not allowed in a productive environment) is to establish a direct JDBC connection to the database, thus bypassing the ABAP application layer entirely.
Regards,
Thorsten

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