This section provides information on various technologies and tools available for developing portal applications:
Creating and Using Platform-Independent Connectors
How to use the connector framework to create platform-independent connectors that enable access to various data sources
Enterprise Portal Client Framework (EPCF)
How to use the Enterprise Portal Client Framework for the client-side communication between the portal components and portal core framework
Developing WSRP-Compliant Applications
Provides guidelines for NetWeaver developers on how to create WSRP-compliant content
How to work with XML content and perform transformations
How to enable your applications to resolve back-end system aliases at runtime
A legacy technology used for creation of Web application UI
How to manage internal portal caches with a generic API
Optimizing Performance of Portal Applications
Discusses performance issues of portal applications and provides guidelines for developers
How to control appearance of portal applications with the page builder component
Describes the Web services that are provided by the portal
Describes an infrastructure that enables applications to send messages to clients
Storing User Data in the User Content Directory (UCD)
How to use the User Content Directory (UCD) to store and access application data specific to a user, to improve the user experience
How to retrieve information about the user agent, such as Web browser or search engine, in which your application is running
Working with Users, Groups and Roles
How to use the User Management Engine API of the AS Java to obtain information about users, groups and roles
The Javadocs for the Enterprise Portal APIs are located at http://help.sap.com/javadocs.