SAP Portal Application development & Deployment

Hi Guys,
I'm trying to find a way to customise the top navigation on the Portal (e.g. mahe a hover menu navigation).
The way to do it is to develop a new portal application using NWDS.
I'm struggling to follow any of the samples as they all refer to .PAR files, which is not supported anymore by NWDS 7.1.
What is the right way (and steps) to deploy the SAP Portal application from NWDS to our SAP Portal.
Thank you.

Hi Pashaking
Please check below docs might help
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/6066b302-09c8-2a10-a894-eb9fef30df85?QuickLink=index&overridelayout=true
Tag Libraries: Creating a Hover Menu in SAP NetWeaver Portal
Hope it will helps
Regards
Arun Jaiswal

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Hi Ahmet,
open a browser on your portal server (or try telnet) to check if you can access your axis server. Seems like you have some firewall or routing probs.
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hi Vadim
Thanks for ur fast reply, I have implemented the same code that u have mentioned.herewith I am sending u the code that I have written.
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import javax.resource.ResourceException;
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I have created an R/3 system in the portal and named it as FIN with the same alias name as FIN.
U please tell me what are the other things that we have to do in respect to get connection to R/3, how to configure the R/3 system in the portal and also in the NWDS.
And also the portalapp.xml file i have created
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<application>
<!THIS FILE IS A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL VERSION STORED IN THE PCD. PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE IT!>
<application-config>
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<services/>
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