Add Existing Web Parts
Web Parts can present content from existing back-end systems, such as Exchange, Siebel, or SAP, and extract and present customized views of data stored therein.
As Web Parts can be made available for reuse, they can be found by many companies to augment their solutions. Microsoft, for example, itself provides Web Parts to provide integration with Microsoft Outlook and MSN.
Reusable Web Parts are made available by two means:
Through a Web Part Gallery
Persisted in a XML file with the .DWP extension
NOTE
If a Web Part is saved outside SharePoint Portal Server, it will be stored as a file with the .DWP extension. The actual encoding of this file is XML that fully describes the Web Part with all its properties and—if present—the ...
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