System Landscape

Purpose

The portal system landscape is a collection of systems. A system is a portal object comprised of a set of properties that represent an external, or back-end, application. Systems enable a connection to these applications and the retrieval of data from their information stores.

Integration

· During portal installation, a Portal Archive (PAR) file containing a portalapp.xml is uploaded and stored in the Portal Content Directory (PCD).

The portalapp.xml is a profile of an external application, providing all the necessary connectivity information to the application. The file can hold the definitions of numerous systems.

You can create a new system directly from the PAR file or from an existing system template. It is also possible to generate a system template based on the PAR file and then use that to create systems.

● Some external applications to which you want to connect must have in the portal system a representative connector, the middleware through which the portal content accesses the application.

The portal provides an SAP connector for accessing SAPsystems and a Database (JDBC) connector for accessing generic databases. These two connectors are automatically installed to the Web application server during portal installation.

● It is possible to see the system landscape of any portal in the System Landscape Overview iView

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