SAP Forms Service by Adobe and SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe

This contains information about SAP Forms service by Adobe and SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe.

It also contains information about SAP's Maintenance Strategy for Adobe Forms On-Premise.

As already announced in the Maintenance Strategy, the SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java 7.5 will go out of Mainstream Maintenance at the end of 2027 and out of Extended Maintenance at the end of 2030. After 2030 there will be no further updates. SAP HANA Extended Application Services, Advanced Model (XSA) will be the successor platform for Adobe Document Services.
SAP plans to deliver this option Q1, 2027. Customers can decide to switch from the ADS on NetWeaver AS Java to SAP Forms service by Adobe or the ADS on XSA. This guarantees long-term support of Adobe-based forms functionality for S/4 HANA on-premise solutions.

Typical questions asked about Adobe Document Services on XSA

• Form Printing
• Offline Interactive Forms

The following blog post explains how to distinguish between Online-Interactive Forms and Offline-Interactive-Forms:

Online-Interactive Forms vs Offline-Interactive-Forms

This sizing guide is intended for SAP performance analysts and customers as a general guide to determining server size requirements for the Adobe document services component in their particular installations.

This document give detailed information about how to create form templates.

This document explains the hub concept and contains advice about load balancing.