We mention creating a feed from an html screen in this post:

http://semanticwebs.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/dapper-create-feeds-from-web-pages/

What this means is that html based UIs now have a real advantage over non html based UIs. SAP is just such an application that does not have an html based UI. RSSBus excels at creating RSS feeds from things like SQL databases, but they do not yet have hooks into SAP (although they may be developing some). GuiXT on the other hand exposes SAP fields to an html page, making it possible to scrape this page using a tool like Dapper. This means that there is the possibility for using it for application integration.

Discussion with GuiXT

However, after speaking with a GuiXT representative we learned that they do not provide tempates or make templates for clients. Instead they sell a development environment. This would mean that a client would need to create the front end in GuiXT in order to scrape it and extract the feilds. Because of this, the client would need to already be committed to creating the front end for other purposes such as user interactions.

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