Customising CATS Webdynpro or PDK or BSP

Hi SDN Gurus,
Currently we've have configured CATS application in EP using ITS.
Because of performance related issues , we are planning to develop the application based on BSP/PDK/Webdynpro.
As I am new to BSP/Webdynpro/PDK your thoughts on this will be very much useful to me.Please guide me which option is better performance wise for CATS.Request you to provide any useful link/ info in this regard
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Ganga

Hi Sujesh,
To achieve this create Development component.
In your component controller of WebDynpro Component add your database related code.like getting connection,registering connection etc.
This approach is much like all java applications connecting with oracle.
You can use JDBC connector service. Here you can configure Java based thin drivers to connect to Oracle Database. Advanatages of doing this are you can configure several connection paramaters and also do a rough monitoring of the connection usage.
For connection u can use this code:
DriverManager.registerDriver(new oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver());
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:thin:@Oracle_server_ip:Oracle port:SID of the Database","user_name","password");
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("your query");
Regards,
Pooja.

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