Some SAP NetWeaver 7.3 features
SAP announced that the first full release of the technology platform in five years was being made available to a first wave of customers.
Below is a worthy excerpt on the new features of Netweaver 7.3 after 7.0
Architecture Differences between EP 7.0 and 7.3
- AJAX Framework –Default
- Enhanced Wiki’s & Forums are included in EP 7.3 as a add-on. No Special license is required
- Mashups
- J2EE 5 / JAVA SE 6
- EP / CE Can be installed in same instance
- No support for PAR files. All portal applications are now EAR (Enterprise Archive) based
- Visual Admin is no longer available and is completely replaced with NWA (Netweaver Administrator)
- Enterprise Workspaces are not available for EP 7.3 as of 04/06/2011
- SAML 1.1/2.0 Support for SSO mechanism (SAP Recommendation for SSO)
- JSR 168/286 support for remote portlets integration
- New Navigation API’s for cross system navigation
- Browser back button still an issue EP 7.3
Performance
- Approximately 3 times faster performance than current EP 7X portal
- Portal server Start/Stop time is reduced drastically (Near to Zero Down time)
Administration Tools
- Visual Admin is replaced with NWA
- Installing CE/EP 7.3 in same machine is possible
- PAR migration tool for converting PAR files to EAR files
- SDM is replaced with JSPM
- Undeployment of SCA’s/EAR files are not possible using JSPM. You can use NWDS for this purpose.
NWDI
- Eclipse 3.5.2 based
- JDK 1.6.0_7 or higher
- OS Support for Windows XP 32-bit
- Windows Vista 32-bit
- Windows 2008 64-bit
- Windows 7 32-bit
- Windows 7 64-bit
- 3 GB Free Space
- 2 GB Ram Required
- Improved Performance
- New Visual Composer Environment
Ajax in EP 7.3
Below are some of the areas where Ajax is used
- Ajax Framework Page
- Ajax Desktop Page
- Configuration Editor for configuring framework page settings
- Theme Editor
- Full screen mode
- Splash screen
- Navigation
- Personalization
- Show Breadcrumb
- Title bar and Tool bar
- Powerful L-Shape API’s
- Navigation API
- History API etc..
Just a few comments.
The performance is not 3 times faster. In lab tests it was 1/3 faster (so 33% faster rather than 300% faster).
Enterprise Workspaces will be available, just not yet.
It is available for all customers now (it is in GA).
Another area where there is a big improvement is in the area of Web Page Composer.
Regards,
Paul
There isn't much hype around SAP Netweaver EP.7.3. From a technical point of view, new technology is being supported which is a good thing but then again it is very much focused on development and there are few improvements for system administration.
To me it looks like from a functional point of view there are features missing which would create hype around EP 7.3. Evidence of that for me is the fact that SAP also utilizes a combination of EP and Jive for example for SCN.
It seems that in order to have a great platform which can provide the end-users what they are looking for an integration of a third prty portal like Jive is in order.
Kind regards
Tom