Adobe Document Services provided by SAP runs as a module on J2EE Application Server to provide Adobe PDF Based Form Outputs and also Adobe Interactive Forms for Input/Output.
Unfortunately, ADS Service is not supported by all platforms supported by Netweaver.
For Netweaver 2004s SR1 Following Platforms are supported by one of the supported Databases;
- Windows 2K3 Server on IA32
- Windows 2K3 Server on IA64
- Windows 2K3 Server on x64
- AIX 5.2, 5.3 64 Bit
- HP-UX 11.11, 11.23, 11.31, on PA-RISC and IA64
- Solaris 9,10 on SPARC, 10 on x64
- Linux SLES9, SLES10, RHEL4 on IA32, IA64, x86_64, Power 64
- z/OS 1.6, 1.7 64 Bit
- i5/OS V5R3, V5R4 64 Bit
But Adobe Document Services is only supported on the following Platforms:
- Windows 2K3 Server on IA32
- Linux SLES9 on x86_64
- Linux RHEL4 on x86_64
- AIX 5.2, 5.3 64 Bit
- HP-UX 11.11 and 11.23 on PA-RISC 64 Bit
- Solaris 9,10 on SPARC
Because of this situation, if you want to use ADS in your Netweaver Projects you have to consider an additional Java Application Server on a ADS supported platform.
SAP Provides Guidelines with the following OSS Notes
925741 - Adobe document services (ADS) with non-supported platforms
894009 - Adobe Document Services: Configuration Guide (SAP NW 2004s)
863893 - Interactive forms: Release restrictions (NetWeaver '04)
