Project Muse

[Former Member]

Sorry for the cross posting but this topic is not so easy to fit in one category.

Saw an interesting news item in computerworld.co.nz about a new high end GUI for SAP called project Muse. It is supposed to be built with Flash and Flex plus SOA/ESA architecture from SAP. Anyone know something more about this? Is this just a name for the visual composer + FLEX that is being rolled out or is this something completely different? I made a search throughout the whole SDN and saw no mention of project MUSE but I am hoping someone is willing to shed some light on this. I had already decided to spend some time learning more about FLEX and FLASH and I think this type of a GUI could really solve a lot of problems, including being browser and device independent which is excellent news. (most browsers run Flash but not all devices yet).

Hoping for some interesting discussion about this and the future of the GUI as well. Does this mean that webdynpro, the new darling from SAP is not going to be so widespread as expected?

Bjorn

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Although I am not the right person for UI, the idea behind MUSE (as far as I understand) is not to replace UI technologies, but to give the user the choice of a) different UIs (WebDynpro "HTML", Flex,...) and b) the choice of a rich vs. a lean client. And that at much more performing as it is used to be.

You also have to understand tha WebDynpro is not just a UI, but a whole framework. The WD engine will be able to take the UI definition (SAP defined a standard for that) and render the UI in HTML, Flex, and eventually other UI technologies. So we are going from an OS-, database- and programming language independency also to a UI-technology independency.

MUSE was shown as a sneak preview of what SAP is working on in the UI area.

Mario

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There is a document now on the SDN "explaining" what project Muse is. It´s still early days I guess and I am still a little confused to be honest.

<a href="http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/c70862a6-0b01-0010-fc85-df8cb2ef3721">Project Muse fact sheet</a>

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Check out the Muse Blog /people/jeffrey.word/blog/2006/06/06/project-muse--new-gui-for-sap

[Former Member]

Hey, try this document - get the whole picture of UI strategy including the place of Muse:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/b7259e66-0e01-0010-8ea4-c72...

[Former Member]

Hello,

Is there any way to navigate between different UI-techniques e.g. from a JAVA web dynpro I to a classic SAP-GUI UI by clicking a link or eq?

What about OBN (Object based Navigation in Enterprise Portal)?

Thx

Thomas

[Former Member]

You might want to check out either this document:

https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/VC/Jump+Details

Or this one:

How to Integrate Visual Composer Applications and BEx Web Templates

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/ad182ac7-0a01-0010-4fb8-8a4...

Both are not directly aimed at Muse, but they might give you an idea how this can be done.

[Former Member]

Thank you for the links, very interesting but my question was: is there any way how the good old sap gui can "communicate" with browser applications, running an sap nw javastack?!?

regards

Thomas