Portal Developer Information 

Developers can build their own portal components for displaying custom content, as well as portal services for providing custom processing. These custom components and services can make use of dozens of built-in portal services, such as for creating navigation links, transforming XML content or scripting client-side eventing.

For more information on developing for the portal, see the full SAP NetWeaver Portal Developers’ Guide at Running an Enterprise Portal.

Prerequisites

The guide assumes that developers have basic knowledge in the following areas:

·        HTML

·        Java and servlet programming.

·        JSP (Java Server Pages)

·        Basic operating system commands for navigating in the file system, copying and editing files.