External Portal

Our company is planning to launch an external portal that replaces their current website.
What are the steps v need to follow to get this done?
The website has shopping cart and small search application that pulls data from SAP CRM to show detailed description of the product searched.
Shopping cart is written in asp and search application in Java,jsps.
My question (1) is , can v directly use this code in SAP EP 6.0? or v have 2 recode everything in NDS to get the same functionality in EP?(coz it has to import certain packages if it is used in portal)
I placed all the static html files in a folder in /irj/portalapps, and built some URL iveiws that point to these files.
(2)is this how v do it?
plz throw some light on this.
Thanx in advance!!

Fredrik,
We are developing an external portal for 14K+ users. We put the roles under groups. A custom service once everyday reads the data from the R/3 system and updates our portal UME/LDAP. So, the roles are re-freshed once every 24 hours.
Hope this helps.
Abu

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> 1) The portal server connecting WDA's from a ERP server, isn't it a best practice?
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> 2) As it is already working (external access to the portal), for now I have just to create the iViews to the WDA's from ERP server?
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Addy,
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