Weeks ago I took apart in a WebDynpro training which lasted one week. To be frank, I should say it was an impressive training, it somehow changed my long-existed misunderstandings about WebDynpro and brought me some new things. so I will briefly tell something I know about WebDynpro, maybe more afterwards.
Let me make it simple. ‘WebDynpro is a web application UI technology developed by SAP based on Java and ABAP’.
WebDynpro is trying to make it simple for UI designers, Developers, Root Cause Analyzers and other people who need to handle with the UI technology. It looks like Microsoft VS, but they are also very different.
Such kind of stuff is making people become lazy, and lazy is some kind of the definition of a good customer experience.
Well, you do ‘drag and drop’ games, the ui and most boring code is generated, then you set the attributes, add the actions and events, fill in very limited lines of code. In WebDynpro, calling function, even implementing interface can be also done automatically. In my early years with C#.net development, these things were also done by the IDE, so from my perspective, they are from the same idea: Object Orientation.
Also, there are something special in SAP WebDynpro, which I guess is more or less for a close combination with software’s business function features.
Multi-language implementation was introduced as a single chapter during the training. It’s no doubt that WebDynpro will focus on this when the technology itself is for the customers worldwidely.
Value Help, Semantic Help and Keyboard Access is also strongly designed for WebDynpro because our software always cares about the user experience and the easy-going possibility. with these features, you can simple develop the help document link and the value help context.
Adaption techniques by WebDynpro are also cool, it is sufficient for enhancement development and dynamic modification at Runtime. For SAP, this is absolutely important because the customer always need to do some customization for their SAP installations.
Well, so much for this time. I will try to tell more about WebDynpro in the future, of course, if I have.