Netweaver Central is an online community where SAP developers, consultants, integrators and administrators can converge and discuss topics related to the SAP Netweaver platform and technologies
Netweaver Central has been designed to grow and adapt to the needs of the online Netweaver community. It will host technology discussions, expert advise and exclusive downloads to help in the development and implementation of projects based on the Netweaver platform.
It is impossible to implement all of the necessary functions associated with a complex business problem in the same component or even technology. A modern enterprise infrastructure system must be in the position to integrate functions in one effective process. Until now, the combination of different applications have been developed using point-to-point solutions which grow complex and impossible to maintain over time.
Web Services simplify the heterogeneous nature of most mature enterprise system landscapes. They enable you to combine functions in a single process, even if they are implemented in widely differing software components. Web services are standalone, executable entities that can be published, searched for, and called, across a network.
Transports in an SAP system provide a repeatable way to move code changes from your DEV to QA to Production systems. Portal transports are independent of the CTS mechanism within the ABAP-based systems. This document will demonstrate the import and export portal transport process.
Which development platform should you use to develop new SAP web-based applications?
This is a question that really doesn’t have a clear cut answer. There are many pros and cons for both technologies and SAP really has not produced a clear direction statement as to which direction they will be going with their new products.
At the start of new installations clients opt to use the newest technologies ( you always want to guide them away from ‘bleeding edge’ technologies.. but that’s a different story ). But there are also some projects which require a consultant to ‘turn back the clock’ and get re-familiar with older projects.
With the release of BI7.0 SAP introduced a requirement to force the use of a combination of a Java stack along with an ABAP stack.
A majority of the BI ‘engine’ is still running on the legacy ABAP engine. The newer web template functionality is now hosted on a Java stack. In order for the application to work correctly the communication between the two stacks has to be functioning correctly.
When talking with customers, one of the primary annoyances they have with the SAP Netweaver suite is the lack of adherence to some basic web standards. These standards have been around since the early days of the web and users are truly accustomed to them.
Whenever I am involved with a Netweaver rollout, I make an effort to customize the environment to meet the expectations of the general users. These users are not truly power users but the use SAP enough to understand its … quirks?
Traditionally, the Portal Activity Report has been the default method for gather information on how users use the Netweaver Portal. The Portal Activity Report enabled a portal administrator to gather information about users who logged into the portal and what content they used.
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