ABAP development thru portal

I am not sure if this is the correct forum to post this but I could not think of another one to post into. Our company wants to start using the portal to for accessing SAP as opposed to fat client. I am trying to work with se80 and I find that it is not as good as the fat client. one thing I am finding is that when to click on a function, in the fat client you would be taken to the code for the function but in the portal it does not. It seems like delevoping thru the portal would really be a challange. Is anybody doing development thru the portal? are there tricks that you do or is there special setup that you do in order to do development?
thanks in advance for your help

Hi,
The Portal is meant to replace the SAP GUI from the user's standpoint. The idea is that users would be able to access all applications (SAP or non SAP) through a single (web-based) user interface instead of having to log on individually to each of the systems.
However, this does not apply to the developers. Developers will still have to do ABAP development using the SAP GUI and dynpro development using the NWDS (for Java Web Dynpro) and SAP WAS (for ABAP Web Dynpro). This is not going to go away.
Hope this helps in clarifying your doubts.
Sudha

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