To learn more about SAP NetWeaver support for custom development, check out the following information:

IT Practice of Custom Development

• "Creating Applications Easily with Visual Composer Tool" (PDF, 223 KB) -- Read about SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer, an affordable, model-driven tool that lets you build applications quickly to streamline business processes and cut development costs.
• "Custom Development with SAP NetWeaver" (PDF, 234 KB) -- Examine a new approach to IT development. SAP NetWeaver brings together the disparate worlds of packaged applications and custom development into a single ecosystem, where enterprise applications become the building blocks of a new generation of service-oriented applications.

Application Server

• "Building Standards-Based Business Applications" (PDF, 176 KB) -- Learn how SAP NetWeaver leverages industry standards to provide portability and interoperability with other systems. SAP NetWeaver provides a platform-independent, maintainable basis for business Web applications and services that include J2EE and ABAP.
• "Confidently Run Your SAP Solutions on Linux" (PDF, 150 KB) -- Read why companies that are looking for an effective and economic IT infrastructure have entrusted their critical enterprise applications to Linux, enjoying freedom of choice and reduced costs.
• "SAP NetWeaver 2004: An Introduction for Developers" (PDF, 475 KB) -- Read about SAP NetWeaver Application Server, the SAP NetWeaver component that provides the complete infrastructure to develop, deploy, and run business-critical, enterprise applications supporting both Java technologies and the ABAP programming language.