Developing, Configuring, and Adapting Applications (SAP Library

Developing, Configuring, and Adapting Applications

Purpose

This IT scenario comprises a variety of ways to develop, configure, extend and adapt applications. The scenario covers all aspects of application development, starting with elementary questions of software logistics and continuing with the development of both back-end logic and Web-based user interfaces for subsequent deployment in the portal.

Features

Depending on the use case of your development project, you can choose any of the following scenario variants:

Variant Name	Description
Developing Java Applications Using Web Dynpro	With Web Dynpro, organizations can use a model-driven approach to designing user interfaces that still allows them to add their own custom coding for specialized routines. Web Dynpro for Java comes with a comfortable tool environment to create, modify, configure and adapt applications easily, and is great for building portal-aware applications.
Leveraging J2EE Standards For Porting And Adopting Applications	Organizations that have adopted the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standard are offered the methodology and tools to easily port their applications to SAP NetWeaver. After the migration, they can maintain their applications with SAP’s complete Java tool set, including the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio and the SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure.
Creating Business Applications using ABAP	In the SAP standard applications, ABAP is still the prevailing technology. This variant focuses on how to customize and extend SAP’s custom applications in customer projects, using the so-called switch framework and enhancement framework.
Developing ABAP Applications Using Web Dynpro	The comfortable Web Dynpro technology for building user interfaces is also available for the ABAP world, and can thus be used to put modern, professional user interfaces on top of existing ABAP applications.
Creating Composite Applications	Composite applications combine services from many different sources, and make heavy use of collaboration and knowledge management features to support groups of end users in innovative ways. SAP NetWeaver’s composite application framework (CAF) offers a special set of tools to generate, adapt and maintain composite applications.