Developing Applications for the Portal 

The SAP NetWeaver Portal provides your organization a single point of access to enterprise applications, information repositories, databases and services, all integrated into a single user experience. The portal is the Web front-end of SAP NetWeaver.

With its role-based content and personalization features, the portal enables users – from employees and customers to partners and suppliers – to focus exclusively on data relevant to their daily decision-making.

The includes an API to enable access to portal services, such as navigation and the Portal Content Directory.

For more information on creating iViews from portal applications, see Integrating Applications into the Portal.

Prerequisites

●      Developers should be familiar with how the portal works, specifically, how portal users and administrators work with it. Become familiar with basic concepts, such as:

○       Portal Content Directory (PCD), and the creation of iViews, pages, roles and other portal objects

○       Navigation

○       Personalization

○       Systems, and the connecting to back-end applications and databases

For more information, see the Portal Administration Environment.

●      Developers should have good understanding of the following technologies:

○       Java and servlet programming

Some portal application APIs require knowledge of the following:

○       JSP (Java Server Pages)

○       HTML