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Developer Connection: Flex and SAP
Rich Islands for Adobe Flash
Rich Islands for Adobe Flash let you embed rich user interfaces inside SAP applications. The Web Dynpro for ABAP framework in SAP NetWeaver 7.0 EhP1 now provides new libraries that make it easy to add rich data visualization to SAP applications using the Flex framework. Rich Islands for Adobe Flash will be of interest to:
- SAP developers familiar with Web Dynpro and interested in enhancing SAP user experiences
- Adobe Flash or Flex developers interested in extending professional business applications
- Business Objects customers interested in visualizing their data inside an SAP business process
The Adobe Flash Platform in an SAP enterprise environment
Understand the value of the Adobe Flash Platform in an SAP enterprise.
For developers: Adobe Flash in SAP (website)
Samples, libs, and tools for using Adobe Flash in an SAP environment.
For managers: Business Benefit of Rich Internet Applications (PDF)
This Adobe Acrobat Portfolio includes the following resources:
- Rich Internet Applications: What's the Business Case? (report)
- Gartner Marketscope for Ajax and RIA Platforms (report)
- Business Benefits of RIAs in the Enterprise (white paper)
- InfoTech ROI Calculators
- NASDAQ RIA Case Study
Get inspired
Interactive Data Visualization (WASI)
Demonstrates some of the pre-built Flex components that let you transform your data into highly visual, interactive information.
Wagon Assembly Line (Trilemetry, Inc.)
Shows how Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex can be used together to create an interactive and animated experience.
Rich Product Selector (SAP Mentor)
Shows a number of new Web Dynpro features and a Rich Island that selects products "coverflow" style.
Xcelsius Dashboards (Business Objects)
Xcelsius dashboards, built with Adobe Flex, can also be integrated as Rich Islands.
See how it works
Learn to develop Rich Islands
The following tutorials teach Rich Island development with reference to the Production Monitoring sample application.
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See what you can do.
- Interactive example: Production Monitoring
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Understand the basics of Rich Island development.
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Explore Rich Island development with Flex Builder.
- For SAP developers: Build an interactive Flex application from scratch
- For Flex developers: Create a Web Dynpro application
- For Flex and SAP developers: Create a working Rich Island
Explore Rich Island development with Flex Builder
This tutorial series demonstrates how to integrate a Rich Island into an SAP Web Dynpro application. You can skip the sections that do not apply to you.
- SAP developers: Build an interactive Flex application from scratch
- Flex developers: Create a Web Dynpro application
- Flex and SAP developers: Create a working Rich Island
Video highlights: Understand how to develop Rich Islands
Review the concepts you learn in Parts 8 and 9 of the tutorial series, Exploring Rich Island development with Flex Builder, by watching the following video highlights:
- Seeing the working application (2:28)
- Creating your first Web Dynpro component (2:33)
- Understanding the SAP Rich Islands libraries (5:07)
- Mapping simple data between Flex and Web Dynpro (9:25)
- Passing complex data from Web Dynpro to Flex (9:25)
- Dispatching and handling events (3:33)
- Asynchronous data handling (2:23)
- Debugging and troubleshooting (3:45)
