SAP NetWeaver comes with its own solution to prevent clickjacking for its most relevant UI frameworks. For more information about this protection, see the corresponding SAP Notes. WDA: 1872800. Clickjacking protection framework, see Note 2319727. By default, clickjacking protection is disabled. To activate it, you need to insert a value Read more…
It happened. You do not remember anymore the password created by SAP Web Dispatcher (WD) during bootstrap operation. While this is not bad (who can remember a password like aR$#¨%_09fms!” anyway?) and normally your browser safes it for you (hm, maybe not so good) or your password safe (better). But Read more…
Updating a system with SUM is as easy as walking into Mordor. Upgrading a SPS needs you to have a stack XML and when you put SCAs that are signed into a folder, you still have to ensure that SUM can verify the validity of the files. To do so, SUM Read more…
NWDS 7.3/7.4 uses the update site concept of Eclipse. This makes it easier to update NWDS as an updated component only needs to be updated at the central update site. No need to distribute a whole NWDS installation package to the developers. The NWDS update site even includes a zip Read more…
To run SAP Portal on the standard web ports 80 and 443 you should use Web Dispatcher. In that case, WD runs on the privileged ports and SAP Portal / NetWeaver Java / ICM continue to run on their usual 5nnXX ports. Changing the ports directly on ICM of NetWeaver Read more…
SAP Web Dispatcher (WD) is the entry point of your users that access your web enabled applications. These can be any HTML service or app you have running on NetWeaver, or other systems like HANA XS. For over a decade WD offers reverse proxy functionality for SAP systems, and while Read more…
This document explains how to install and configure an environment for analyzing SAP Web Dispatcher (WD) logs with logstash, elasticsearch and Kibana under Linux. Kibana 3 needs a running web server. The example shown here is using nginx, but won’t detail how to set up nginx. Components referred to in Read more…
Note: 1st published on SCN on 25. 5. 2012 Debugging an application comes down to see what is going on during execution of the application. One way of debugging is to log specific messages to a file. To get e detail analysis of the program flow you set breakpoints. These Read more…
Note: 1st published at SCN on 2.5.2012 Before an application can go into production, it needs to be tested. For Java there are several widely adopted test frameworks available like jUnit or TestNG. As these are used to test Java applications, what about web applications? How to test the UI Read more…
Note: first published on SCN on 29.2.2012 Java offers many technologies and mechanisms that help developers realize their ideas. One is to save data in a database without dealing with object relative mapping. From the several technologies available to save a Java object into a DB NetWeaver AS Java comes Read more…