What will the upcoming version of SAP enhancement package 1 for SAP NetWeaver 7.0 bring to the portal? Here are just some of the features that provide improved performance and functionality, especially in the realm of the Federated Portal Network (FPN).
Feature List
- Navigation Cache - Preloading Roles: Imagine having great portal performance, especially when you are the first user to access a certain role. The cachepreloader service allows you to upload all of a user's roles into the navigation cache. Administrators can specify multiple user IDs, and when the cachepreloader service starts, all of the roles belonging to the specified users are uploaded into the cache.
- Setting a Default Property Category: Until now, when opening the Property Editor, the first property category to open by default was Information. Content administrators can now specify default property categories for iViews and pages using the Default Property Category property. They can also set the new default on an iView or page template so that all objects based on the template use the same default property category.
- Integrating Remote Applications into Local iViews: Content administrators can now create local iViews which run remote Web Dynpro Java applications that have been deployed on a different portal installation. There is no need to create a remote Web Dynpro Java iView on the remote system before consuming the application - the local iView is directly connected to the remote application.
- Federated Portal Network (FPN) Performance Improvements: A release wouldn't be a release without some FPN enhancements...here's a sampling of some of the improvements.
- Caching System IDs: A new portal service, called SLGP allows system IDs which are mapped to federated portal aliases to be cached on the consumer portal. As you can imagine, this greatly improves response times and system performance for the remote role assignment and remote delta link usage modes.
Heads Up! You won't be able to use this feature if you have implemented dynamic system resolution in your portal landscape.
- Setting Up Trust Between Consumer and Producer Portals: Back in SAP NetWeaver 7.0 SPS14, the SAP NetWeaver Administration tool introduced a new wizard for configuring Single-Sign-On authentication with SAP logon and assertion tickets. FPN uses this wizard to simplify the setup of trust between a producer and consumer, and reduces some of the manual steps that were required in previous setups. Furthermore, the manual configuration of authorization settings using the Visual Administrator tool is no longer needed. The federated portal network documentation is now aligned with the functionality provided by the new wizard.
- Configuring HTTP-Based Producer-Consumer Communication with HTTPS-Based Client-Consumer Communication: Until now, the communication protocol between a consumer portal and a producer portal had to be the same as the runtime communication protocol used between the portal client of business users and the consumer and producer portals. Now, a system administrator can configure the communication protocol between a producer and consumer to work over HTTP while the end user client accesses the consumer portal and producer portal over HTTPS.
- Caching System IDs: A new portal service, called SLGP allows system IDs which are mapped to federated portal aliases to be cached on the consumer portal. As you can imagine, this greatly improves response times and system performance for the remote role assignment and remote delta link usage modes.
Watch this blog for links to the release notes (and other information) - available soon.
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