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External facing portal

Former Member
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Dear Experts,

Is possible to create content for external facing portal using ABAP webdynpro and display them using the light framework?

Thanu.

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thomas_jung
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This is probably a question better asked in the portal forum as it has more to do with the external facing portal. I do know that generally with the external facing portal you have a more heavily branded design. I've seen Web Dynpro applications running in External Facing and they can't take on this branded design. They can only accept a portal theme. Combine the always stateful nature of Web Dynpro with the lack of customizatoin of the visual design and this might not be the best approach depending upon your requirements. For a stateless approach and completely custom look and feel, consider BSP (on ABAP) or JSF (on Java).

Former Member
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HI Thomas Jung,

Thank you for the reply. How much of impact will the stateful nature of WDA have on the performance.

Thanu.

ChrisPaine
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Hi Thanu,

its not so much that the stateful nature of WDA impacts performance (rather it improves it), but that generally web users are used to being able to navigate to the previous page using the back button of their browser. Which they generally won't be able to do with a WD ABAP application.

Cheers,

Chris

thomas_jung
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Like Chris said Stateful/Stateless isn't necessarily about the performance of the single application for the single user. Used correctly stateful can improve performance. In addition to the back navigation Chris mentioned; stateful also means that you need to consider the potential load this places on your application server. You will have a dialog user session for each user in your WDA application - with a similiar session size to any SAPGUI based user. If you only expect a small number of simultanious users then the impact probably won't be noticable. However if you needed to support say 10000 simultanious users (not named but people actually logged on at the same time), then this could have a huge performance impact because of all the dialog user sessions and server side session state.

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Former Member
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Thank you all for your answers