Overview 

When a Web Dynpro portal page is requested, the portal’s Web Dynpro Page Builder gathers information about the page and renders it.

The following components are involved in the page rendering process:

●      Portal Content Directory (PCD):Stores information about the page, such as the iViews contained in the page, the page layout, and the layout container in which to render each iView.

●      Page Builder: Manages the process of rendering the page.

●      Layout Component: Defines the user interface elements of the page and the areas (layout containers) on the page in which iViews can be rendered. The Web Dynpro component implements the IPageLayoutcomponent interface definition.

●      iView Renderer Component: Renders the iViews within a container. The Web Dynpro component implements the ILayoutContainer component interface definition. The Page Builder supplies to the layout component a VerticalContainercomponent for rendering iViews.

During runtime, the following occurs when a Web Dynpro page is requested: