The Pros and Cons of SAP's WebDynpro Technology

The Pros and Cons of SAP’s WebDynpro Technology Below is a snippet from one of hundreds of articles available to ERPtips subscribers. If you would like a complimentary copy of the full article, please email Mark.Downs@ERPtips.com (include the title of the article in your email) To subscribe to ERPtips, go to www.ERPtips.com/Subscribe.asp. ERPtips Journal is published by Klee Associates, Inc. ERPtips University provides both public and onsite training for SAP clients. For more about ERPtips University, including the current schedule, click here: www.ERPtips.com/WorkshopSchedule.asp The Pros and Cons of SAP’s WebDynpro Technology Now there's WebDynpro. Is it the super-application it is hyped to be? Will it truly make it possible for those who aren't techies to develop their own code? Can it truly leap a tall building in a single bound? Bill Guderian asks the hard questions and delivers candid answers about the pros and cons of this development tool. He

explains what WebDynpro is, its purpose, its advantages, and shortcomings. Bill discusses issues surrounding the best use of resources and skill sets, and predicts the scenarios wherein WebDynpro is most likely to flourish. Click here to read this Snippet SAPtips P age 3 S AP tip s Journal December/January 2005-06 V olume III Issue 6 SAPtips.com SAPtips © 2005 Klee Associates, Inc. We also have an application that is now a hybrid of programmtically generated code, as well as human written code. This can work, but is typically not a comfortable place to be. Let me give some examples of the problems here. Figure 1 shows the Java class files that were generated by WebDynpro in the performance of the “Welcome” tutorial. This tutorial produced a mini-application with two screens, consisting of an initial screen with one input field, and a confirmation screen echoing the data back (entered from the first screen). The application uses the application context to store the content of the entry field. In constructing this application, WebDynpro produced 25 Java class files, which are shown in Figure 1, as well as 17 configuration files, as shown in Figure 2. WebDynpro creates a whole lot of code...

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