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Aug 07, 2006 at 03:13 PM

SAP Support of .NET code on the portal in Question.

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I'm trying to find the SAP direction regarding the support .NET code on the portal itself.

I observed that the Teched 06 sessions are focused on Java and ABAP coding on the SAP side of the house.

There are several classes on developing or building with Duet or integration of SharePoint and the existing KM system. There are no classes regarding .NET code for the portal. At least not that I observed. This tells me the move is strictly to coding in Java and creating web services via tools/code. My concern is that SAP's plan is to move away from supporting .NET code on the portal environment.

To take it a step further, you have two sides. If you develop on the SAP side of the house you use Java and maybe ABAP to code to create web services. Then the concept is to write .NET outside of the portal to consume the services. The problem with this is security. How do I inherit the SAP security authorizations on the .NET side of the house? Can that be passed via the web service and even if it were passed I still have to write my own security administration on the .NET side. Bottom line is if all the assumptions were true then we are moving back to a legacy based system if we custome code in .NET and all data integrity is lost.

Do you have any insight of the SAP direction? Since day one there has been very minor support of the usage of .NET on the portal and I'm questioning how long that support will remain.