Glossary

administrator

A portal user administering and managing content in the design-time environment.

business user

A portal end user using content in the runtime environment.

consumer portal

A system that accesses and uses content provided by other remote systems (producer portals) in a federated portal network.

Synonyms: content consumer , consumer

content usage mode

A means employed by an SAP NetWeaver consumer portal to use content exposed by another SAP NetWeaver or non-SAP producer portal.

See also: remote role assignment , remote delta link , and WSRP application sharing

data provider

Any entity in the portal that serves information, such as system landscape, look and feel, UME, and PCD.

execution base

The physical location where an application is executed and its HTML rendered. In all content usage modes , remote-based iViews running on a consumer portal are executed on the producer portal at runtime.

federated portal network

A distributed landscape comprising more than one SAP NetWeaver and optional non-SAP system installations that share content with each other.

Abbreviation: FPN

See also: content federation and portal federation .

FPN connection

A logical entity that is created by a system administrator which pairs two SAP NetWeaver portals within a federated portal network. An FPN connection facilitates the sharing of portal content between the systems by means of the 'remote role assignment' and 'remote delta link' usage modes. A single FPN connection can serve two systems that share content with each other in both directions.

local content

Portal content that is not dependent on any source objects or applications on a remote portal.

This type of content differentiates itself from remote-based local content whose source applications reside on a remote portal.

SAP NetWeaver-derived portlets

Portlets on a non-SAP consumer portal that represent remote iViews running on an SAP NetWeaver producer portal.

portal-pairing

A relationship between two portals within a federated portal network.

In a one-way relationship , one portal (the consumer portal) consumes content exposed by the other portal (the producer portal). In a two-way relationship , at least one portal in the relationship is both a producer and a consumer in relation to the other portal; thereby exposing its own content for consumption by the other portal, and also consuming content from the other portal.

portlet

An industry term referring to a display component or unit on a Web-based portal that allows users to access and interact with an information source or application at runtime. In SAP NetWeaver Portal, portlets are referred to as iViews .

producer alias

A unique identifier for each producer generated on an SAP NetWeaver consumer portal. It also serves as an identifier that connects between content generated on a consumer (through remote role assignment , remote delta link , and WSRP application sharing ) to the producer instance from which it originates.

producer instance

From the perspective of a consumer portal, refers to the producer entity for any portal-pairing.

The term is sometimes used interchangeably with producer object .

producer object

A semantic object created on an SAP NetWeaver consumer portal when an FPN or WSRP connection to a producer portal is created by a system administrator. The object enables the consumer portal to interact with the specified producer portal and use the remote content that is exposed by the producer.

producer portal

A system that accesses and uses content provided by other remote systems (consumer portals) in a federated portal network.

Synonyms: content producer , producer

proxy-to-portlet iView

An iView, on an SAP NetWeaver consumer portal, which references a remote iView on another SAP NetWeaver producer portal (and consumed through WSRP application sharing ) or a portlet located on a non-SAP producer portal.

registration scope

The relationship between a consumer portal and producer portal, after the consumer portal has successfully registered with the producer portal. A registration scope is identified by a unique FPN or WSRP connection.

Synonym: registration instance

remote delta link

A content usage mode allowing a content administrator on an SAP NetWeaver consumer portal to create delta links to remote content (iViews, pages, worksets, and roles) residing on an SAP NetWeaver producer portal, and to configure and customize that content locally.

A remote delta link also refers to the type of delta link relationship between two objects that reside on separate portals.

Abbreviation: RDL

remote role assignment

A content usage mode allowing a user administrator on an SAP NetWeaver consumer portal to assign users directly to the portal roles that reside on a remote SAP NetWeaver producer portal.

Abbreviation: RRA

remote-based local content

Content created on an SAP NetWeaver consumer portal through the remote delta link and WSRP application sharing modes. This refers to remote delta link objects and proxy-to-portlet iViews, whose source applications exist on a remote producer portal.

trust

A secure relationship established between portals. As a result, users from a consumer portal are recognized as authenticated users on a producer portal when a request for content is made by the consumer.

Trust is achieved by exchanging portal server certificate files between the servers.

WSDL

Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is an XML language for describing Web services offered by a server. A consumer portal must obtain the WSDL information from a producer portal to initiate a connection and complete the registration.

For more information about the WSDL specification, see http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl.

WSRP

(Web Services for Remote Portlets)

An industry standard supporting portal and portlet interoperability.

Defined through the joint efforts of the Web Services for Interactive Applications (WSIA) and Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP) OASIS Technical Committees.

For more information, see http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wsrp/.

WSRP application sharing

A content usage mode allowing a content administrator on an SAP NetWeaver consumer portal to integrate remote WSRP portlets, exposed by a non-SAP or SAP NetWeaver producer portal, as standard iViews in the portal.

WSRP connection

A logical entity that is created by a system administrator which pairs an SAP NetWeaver Portal with a remote SAP NetWeaver or non-SAP system. A WSRP connection facilitates the sharing of WSRP-compliant content between the systems by means of the 'WSRP application sharing' usage mode. The system giving content to the other is called the producer portal, and the system receiving content from the other is called the consumer portal. Two separate WSRP connections must be defined to share content between two systems in both directions.

WSRP consumer

A consumer portal that uses remote portlets exposed by another WSRP-compliant producer portal. Typically, this interaction is between an SAP NetWeaver consumer and non-SAP producer portal.

WSRP producer

A producer portal that exposes its content (such as portlets or iViews) for use by other WSRP-compliant consumer portals. Typically, this interaction is between an SAP NetWeaver producer and non-SAP consumer portal.