Your experiences with Webdynpro ABAP

[Former Member]

Hi there,

please give me an overview how your experiences (positive and negative) are with Webdynpro ABAP??

Here are mine:

Pos:

- fast GUI modelling

- browser = client

Neg:

- runtime

- unflexible controls

- no developer influence on programming modell

(i dont like filling code snippets)

- No Unddo-Button in IDE

- auto-completion show names which are not member

of current class/object

Thx for your input.

Regards,

Markus

[Former Member]

Can you please elaborate what you mean by "runtime" and "unflexible controls"?

Armin

[Former Member]

1) runtime was not the correct choice - i mean the response between clicking the link and the display of the webdynpro...

2) unflexible controls

- changing the layout (fonts, colour, background,...)

of controls not possible or at least very restrictive

- positioning of controls in views restrictive

Well, Armin - i would appreciate it if u tell me your experiences.

thx,

Markus

[Former Member]

My experience with Web Dynpro ABAP? I have none

Armin

[Former Member]

On 1: Depends on the used client. With server-side rendering you will have some delay for the server roundtrip, smart clients are smarter.

On 2: Changing of fonts/colors has not been exposed via API to enforce consistency. Only themes as a whole should be changed. Remember that the primary purpose of Web Dynpro are business applications like ERP.

Positioning of controls restrictive? What does that mean? You cannot place controls by absolute coordinates (which is most probably not a godd idea for localizable applications) but you get a set of powerful layout managers like MatrixLayout etc.

Armin