Integrating Applications into the Portal 

Applications developed in the SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (NWCE) can be integrated into the NWCE portal with the following tools:

●      Generic Portal Application Layer (GPAL):iViews, pages and other portal objects are created using the Generic Portal Application Layer (GPAL), which exposes applications deployed to AS Java.

The applications are displayed in the Portal Catalog within repository folders, and separate repository folders exist for different types of applications.

The following shows what types of applications are exposed by GPAL, and what portal objects can be created from the applications:

Application Type	Portal Objects
Portal	●      iViews ●      Layouts
Web Dynpro	●      Pages ●      Layouts
Visual Composer	●      Pages
Portlets	iViews

More information: Generic Portal Application Layer (GPAL) Repositories and Working with GPAL Repositories.

●      Portal Modeling: Visual Composer provides tools for modeling content, including iViews, pages, roles and worksets. These tools enable visual modeling of portal content, and make it easier to deploy and maintain this content.

More information: Modeling Portal Content with Visual Composer

Exposing Content to Another Portal

The SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (NWCE) can be used as a standalone development or test environment that runs applications in its own portal, or as a production environment that runs applications in portal content and then exposes the content to a central portal in a federated portal network.

The following is a typical production scenario:

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       1.      Use one SAP NetWeaver installation (SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.1) to develop and deploy applications, and to create portal content from these applications using GPAL or Portal Modeling.

       2.      Use a second installation (SAPNetWeaver 7.0) as the central portal for users to access content.

       3.      Set up a federated portal network with the two SAP NetWeaver installations.

       4.      Expose the deployed content (on the NWCE installation) to the users of the central portal.

For more information on setting up a federated portal network in NWCE, see Running Content in a Remote Portal.

For a complete workflow for creating portal content from deployed applications, see Integrating Content into the NWCE Portal.