Blogs posted January 2006

Scott Guthrie wrote in his weblog about useful debug visualizers for VS2005. One of these visualizers is the control graph visualizer which shows the controls tree under a server control. I found this visualzer very helpful and I hope that so will... Read More »

I’m writing this as I’m sat in a plane flying over the Atlantic Ocean on my way to do a customer specific EP300 course for a client in the US.  EP300 is a 5 day SAP course all about Knowledge Management and Collaboration. ... Read More »

The problem is very simple: how do you smartly stop an XI graphical mapping? Suppose you volountarily want a graphical mapping step to fail based on certain conditions. You would throw an exception in a UDF (User Defined Function), yes, but XI... Read More »

Have you got the error message “Unable to connect to the Integration Builder, when you are trying to create a ABAP PROXY from a R/3 system? This blog enumerates the process of Configuration required for ABAP proxy. All the configurations are... Read More »

Overview In this blog entry, I will cover the entire process of downloading, installing and configuration the preview version of the SAP Enterprise Portal. Currently, SAP NetWeaver 04 SP15 is available for download from right here on the SDN... Read More »

One of my New Year’s resolutions was to try to bottle my anger up and to keep my shirt on when I get frustrated/annoyed about things. Unfortunately the latter didn’t last for long. Well to be honest it’s not so much due to... Read More »

Presently it is not easy to find changes made to the PCD (Portal Content Directory) in SAP NetWeaver Portal. The attached PAR file contains a component that can be used to list changes in a date-descending sequence, such as: Optionally, a property... Read More »

The System Landscape Overview iView delivered with SAP NetWeaver Portal in 2005 provided a summary of the systems defined in the system landscape. While it is useful, it does not provide a concise list of the key properties for connected SAP systems... Read More »

Michael Rowley wrote very detailed analysis comparing SCA and JAX-WS. “JAX-WS is very explicitly about supporting the use of web services that are advertised with WSDL and most likely use SOAP over HTTP as the transport mechanism. SCA... Read More »