Reverse Engineering of iViews with PDK .NET

[Former Member]

Hello!

I am currently using SAP EP 6.0 along with PDK .NET which both work just fine. I am able to build portal components and deploy them as par files onto the portal.

I wonder if it is possible with the PDK.NET (or some other tools / plugins) to do some kind of reverse engineering - say given an usual iView, let's say from a

business package, to export it to a par file and then

generate a portal component from it.

Is the reverse engineering generally possible / intended by SAP or not?

I would highly appreciate any help or suggestions respective to this topic.

Best regards,

Edgar Stoffel

[Former Member]

Hi,

Did you run .NET iviews on SAP EP 6.0 SP4 or EP 6.0 SP 6 ?

Can we run PDK .NET on EP6.0 SP4 ?

regards,

sreeram

[Former Member]

Reverse engineering iViews is technically possible. But you would have to do this on a java technology basis rather then .NET since most (or nearly all) iViews containig "hand-made" code are written in java.

Though it is possible, I doubt that it is intended by SAP.

[Former Member]

Thanks for the information!

So it would somehow be possible with WebDynPro or the Eclipse PDK Plugin.

Do you know whether there are any tools available for this purpose?

[Former Member]

For portal components written in java, the plugins won't be helpful (since the components normally don't include the source code). For this type you would need a java decompiler.

For WebDynpro applications, you should be able to import them into your IDE (since the coding is contained in meta information). But I'm not 100% sure about this.

What is your intention in doing this?

[Former Member]

Thanks again!

Well, it was rather a general question for knowing the entire possibilities.

It might be helpful in adjusting predefined iviews to the needs of the company, e.g. some i views in business packages which may be needed to be specialized in order to meet the company's requirements.