Moving from BSP to WD ABAP technology

Hi experts ,
Does any body know the key benefits of moving the BSP application to WD ABAP technology.
Also, please let me know how much can we re-use from existing BSP application.
Regards,
Amit Saini

Hello Amit,
BSP and WebDynpro are used for the development of web-based applications.
With BSP, you would nee the comprehensive knowledge in HTML,CSS, Javascript etc.In BSP your ABAP - based script code &HTML are combined whereas In webdynpro for abap, you would need expertise in ABAP and the Webdynpro for ABAP framework would generate HTML code for you and your application would be rendered in web browsers.
You could consider BSP in similar lines to Java Server Pages or Active Server Pages.
The implementation in BSP programming is complex and one also has to do with granular details like HTTP Request/Response.
which is not the case with Webdynpro and framework does it for you.
The Degree of Abstraction is quite high with Webdynpro as compared to BSP and In BSP one has to adhere to communication protocols, platform-specific functionalities and presentation technique( In webdynpro we just have to specify layout ex : flowlayout, gridlayout etc)

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