Reference

This section provides information on various technologies and tools available for developing portal applications:

• Administration APIs

  How to perform various administration tasks using APIs

• Creating and Using Platform-Independent Connectors

  How to use the connector framework to create platform-independent connectors that enable access to various data sources

• Developing WSRP-Compliant Applications

  Provides guidelines for SAP NetWeaver developers on how to create WSRP-compliant content

• Displaying XML Content

  How to work with XML content and perform transformations

• Dynamic System Resolution

  How to enable your applications to resolve back-end system aliases at runtime

• 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

• HTML-Business for Java

  A legacy technology used for creation of Web application UI

• Managing Portal Caches

  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

• Page Builder

  How to control appearance of portal applications with the page builder component

• Portal Web Services

  Describes the Web services that are provided by the portal

• Real-Time Messaging Framework

  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

• User Agent Service

  How to retrieve information about the user agent, such as Web browser or search engine, in which your application is running

• Using the Generic HTML Portal Component

  How to simplify the development of SAPUI5 and other HTML applications for the portal

• 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.