Webadmin vs NetWeaver Administrator

[MarcelRabe]

Hi all,

hopefully someone can help me clear up something.

We have a CRM 4.0 system with a WebAS Java 6.40 SP9. This system has a J2EE Example: Web Administrator application (technical name: sap.com/webadmin). This is marked as an example tool, but seems very handy.

Then we have multiple other J2EE Engines 6.40 SP9 and much higher that do not have this webadmin tool anywhere at all. Instead there is the NetWeaver Administration tool (tech name: sap.com/nwa). This is also nice but does not do what the webadmin tool does: providing a HTML interface for the Visual Administrator.

Why are only some J2EE Engines shipped with the webadmin tool and what is it's future?

Cheers

Marcel Rabe

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

the story is this:

WebAdmin was the first try, a test balloon to bring Java admin functionality into the browser. SAP has hugh interest in making VisualAdministrator redundant (SP/Release dependent, extra tool/executable...). SInce WebAdmin was no longer maintained, it seemed too dangerous to let this tool in the examples page, so we removed it.

Nevertheless, WebAdmin did not meet official UI technology standards, so we started developing a new Java WebDynpro application from scratch, the NW Administrator. With the next major NW release, the Visual / WebAdmin functionality will be available in NW Administrator. We are on the way, give us a little bit more time.

Best regards

Christoph

[MarcelRabe · Accepted solution]

Thanks for clearing that up Christoph.

Marcel