BSP or Java ?

Hi
I have a basic question but I am facing it today so would like to know from SAP folks about it.
Given a task of developing web applications out of SAP back end (R/3 or BW) which route do I follow
1) BSP - Develop the front end in BSP (HTMLB). The data retrieval from back end SAP system will be easier as BSP development is integrated into SE80.
2) Develop Front end in JAVA and use JCO/JCA/XMLA to connect to back end SAP system to retrive the data ...
WHich one is better in terms of
1) Development
2) Future (considering SAP's migration towards Java tools)
3) Support
Thanks

hi,
huuuum, Well BSP or Java ??
I would say, if some one has gone through the Craig Cmehil, first three or four weblogs, he/she will get his answer, more over one has to select BSP or Java on basis of resources avaiable !
for example if you dont have SAP WAS application server or your house is lack with ABAP OO skills, than ofcource the choice left is Java/JCO solution, which certainly has some problems, a few of them listed here
In JCo performance will always be a bottel neck
Ofcourse all functionality of SAP is not avaiable through RFC enable BAPIs ( though there are more then thousand BAPIs avaiable, but still not all functionality of SAP)
Many Experts who have hand on experience on both platforms says that, WAS/BSP is much more faster, stable, robuts and reliable in comparision to J2EE/JSP. you might can consider to read the following artical
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/documents/a1-8-4/clash of the titans iii.pdf
Hope it helps,
Regards,
Haider Syed

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