Future of WebDynpro ?

Hi Experts,
I am a SAP Consultant and a great WebDynpro fan from the beginning on. We developed some great solutions with WebDynpro frontends.
As far as i know SAP has commited support for WebDynpro until 2018. What will be next? Can anybody of the SAP insiders tell what are the plans with WebDynpro for the next years? Specially compared to upcomming HTML5? What should i say to our customers if they ask to use WebDynpro or other Frontend techniques?
My wishes would be: If something have to change, than keep the WebDynpro metamodel and development tooling (JAVA/ABAP) and change only the rendering engine to use more HTML5 features
Regards
Michael

Hi Michael ,
As far as i know SAP has commited support for WebDynpro until 2018.
I think this is only Webdynpro Java not for ABAP. Since SAP is highly recommending WDA/WD4A. Also they are migrating ESS/MSS from WDJ to WDA.
Hence the future will be WebDynpro with option of integration Flex/Silverlight.
Thanks,
Arun

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This is not a technical query just in general .
I am basically a java developer and got into this webdynpro-java development . Now as the news that- "webdynpro-java will be no more after few years " making me to think abou my career. I am just thinking wheather to go back to java or stayback in this webdynpro. Can someone suggest me on this .
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Hi,
You can read this blog by Mr.Wolfgang, Chief Product Owner for BPM & ESB -
The death of Web Dypro Java has been greatly exaggerated
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>>What is Webdynpro?
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2. Supported from a development environment with
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SAP Web Dynpro Overview
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Web Dynpro General Concepts
https://admin.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/webcontent/uuid/30ea953b-8e57-2910-4e85-f7be60b00407
Web Dynpro
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/15/0d4f21c17c8044af4868130e9fea07/frameset.htm
Web Dynpro Java Foundation u2013 What's new in SAP NetWeaver 2004S
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/c29a4d25-0c01-0010-50ae-e69d0e1c61f3
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Web Dynpro for ABAP: Tutorials for Beginners
Web Dynpro Architecture
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/a5/1a1e3e7181b60ae10000000a114084/content.htm
Web Dynpro User Interface Design
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/webdynpro?rid=/webcontent/uuid/ce44a14c-0a01-0010-af89-d7dbd944f176
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http://www50.sap.com/businessmaps/8729920B31E343F099B71340B15F06DB.htm
http://www.sapforum.co.kr/TECHDAY07/download/9.%20SAP%20WebDynpro_%EA%B9%80%ED%98%9C%EC%84%AD.pdf
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http://www50.sap.com/businessmaps/8F5B533C4CD24A59B11DE1E9BDD13CF1.htm
Integrating Web Dynpro and SAP NetWeaver Portal Part 1: Creating Web Dynpro-Based Portal Content
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The Structural Concepts of Web Dynpro Components
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Poll: Development in ABAP Objects / Webdynpro vs. classical Dynpro

Hey there ABAP developers,
I just want to ask if you can give me one or two minutes of your attention for two poll questions.
At the moment I´m writing my master thesis about the development of a monitoring tool in ABAP. One of my bigger chapters is about the decision, which programming paradigm should be used for new development projects in SAP. And another important one is about WebDynpro vs. classical Dynpros.
Because of the fact, that I can´t create any polls in here, I just started this discussion and hope for many replies .
It would be very nice if some of you could give me an answer to the following questions (only 2 ), so that I can maybe use the result of this poll in my master thesis, if there are enough responses.
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Hi,
Present SAP Implementation projects are very rare, maximum projects are support and up gradations only .
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if it is implementation project   ABAP Objects are 25% - 49%.
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In a window i have to develop a part of window which looks like this
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i have used IWDtable ...but the look does'nt meets the requirement at all(it has header....border..scrollbar..rows and colums are seperated by lines---> which are not needed)
Could you please let me know is there a approach to do this?
Thanks & Regards
Swetha
Edited by: Swetha Nellore on Feb 18, 2009 12:32 PM
Edited by: Swetha Nellore on Feb 18, 2009 12:33 PM
Edited by: Swetha Nellore on Feb 18, 2009 12:34 PM

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Thomas Jung wrote:
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Hi Experts,
I have a lot of custom UI development,.for external users in SAP. Most of these applications can be simply developed using WebDynpro ABAP framework. If I do the same development using FPM framework I may need to do lot of reaseach espcially controling the UI behaviours like hiding, changing table cell colors based on the data, manipulating the UI behavior in the runtime, lot more like this.
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So all the Standard SAP Dev could be enhanced (not modified) by simple, configuration, FPM is built around this concept.
So if you want to do custom development, which could be extended for your different customers with minimal efforts, you could go for FPM.
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1) FPM offers more abstraction than Webdynpro
2) FPM offers more reusability
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Hi All,
I am new to the concepts of BSP and ABAP web dynpro,Can some body please guide me on what is the difference between BSP and ABAP web dynpro.
Thanks in Advance.

Hi Varun,
think of WebDynpro as a replacement UI technology for SAPGUI. It is designed to support interactive transactions (i.e. multi-screen) with a standard look and feel for professional users.
BSP is designed to support simple web-style transactions where the user has a fairly simple interaction with the page and you can tailor the user experience to look any way you like.
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i. In Web DynPro there is lesser coding when compared with BSP. i.e Web Dynrpo are more dependent on Designing rather than coding whereas, BSP's are done by coding.
ii. There is low possibilty of customization in web dynrpo, i.e We need to use only the available color or style themes available..It is not easy to have user defined color themes but in BSP we can have our own color themes at ease.. and
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and also check
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