External Facing portal - WD Iview

[namrata_d]

Hi,

We are installing Portal 7.3 and implementing External facing portal.

Can we develop applications on WD ABAP and WD JAVA and expose them on External Facing portal.Is their any restrictions or any performance related issues if we go with this approach ?

I do not see any documentation on EFP implementations on 7.3 .Please share it if anyone has.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Test also your WD applications with most Web browsers : On the internet you cannot control which browser will be used and Netweaver is not known for good browser support....

Regards,

Olivier

[namrata_d · Accepted solution]

Any suggestions on whether we should develope custom applications on WD ABAP or WD JAVA .

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I would say WD ABAP if your data source is SAP backends.

[p330068 · Accepted solution]

Dear Namrata,

Its based on requirement. for webdynpro application go with WD ABAP. for light weight content on EFP make more use of KM or WPC.

Best Regards

Arun Jaiswal

[namrata_d · Accepted solution]

thanks everyone. Also is is feasible to show Adobe forms on EFP ? We have customer certificates to be displayed on portal for download purpose.

[hofmann · Accepted solution]

Hi,

if you go for an EFP you should ask yourself: do you have to develop in Web Dynpro (be it ABAP or Java)? Why not develop a portal applicatoin that uses JSP for the content display and JCo (JCA) for backend access?

br,

Tobias

[Former Member]

Read SAP Help on 7.3 for EFP -

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73/helpdata/en/48/1d054fa4ef4e6fe10000000a42189c/frameset.htm

Ofcourse, you can build WD4A / WD4J and expose on External Portal. You could achieve this using Portal URL Alias and Desktop Filtering -

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/10da65ed-615b-2d10-efbc-ed07a5385...

Refer similar thread :

We've implemented above technique and havent encountered any critical performance factors. Make sure you dont have any large data volume processing or highly sensitive / security restricted business functionality exposed on internet.

Best ~ Dhanz

[namrata_d]

Hi Dhanz,

We are implementing Customer external facing portal and hence expecting large volume of data to be shown on Portal.

We want to develop custom applications based on customer inputs and show it on external portal.

are their any other projects with same objective and how are they handled

[p330068]

Dear Namrata,

WD Iview will work with external facing portal but only with default framework page as per EFP central sap notes.

SAP Note 916545 - Central Note for External-Facing Portal (NW 7.0)

Limitations of implementing an external-facing portal using SAP NetWeaver Portal

SAP Note 877188 and SAP Note 853509

***Make sure that you are accessing the fully qualified domain name.

Best Regards

Arun Jaiswal

[Former Member]

We implemented simillar requirement using WD ABAP applications and also we maintained the default framework page. In case you are developing some kind of report, then make sure that initial data load is less or not there at all. This will ensure a fast rendering of page.

Regards,

Mahesh