Access restriction for portions of a web application

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having stored therein program code of one or more software programs, wherein the program code when executed by at least one processing device causes the at least one processing device to perform steps of:

• receiving, from a user, a request to execute a web application, the web application utilizing a plurality of web application portions, the plurality of web application portions being configured for loading into the web application independent of one another;
• sending, to one or more web application servers, a query for metadata associated with the plurality of web application portions;
• receiving, from the one or more web application servers, metadata for a subset of the plurality of web application portions, the subset of the plurality of web application portions being determined based at least in part on access rights associated with the user;
• and
• loading instances of one or more of the subset of the plurality of web application portions at specified locations in one or more pages of the web application based at least in part on the received metadata.

A method comprising steps of:

• receiving, from a user, a request to execute a web application, the web application utilizing a plurality of web application portions, the plurality of web application portions being configured for loading into the web application independent of one another;
• sending, to one or more web application servers, a query for metadata associated with the plurality of web application portions;
• receiving, from the one or more web application servers, metadata for a subset of the plurality of web application portions, the subset of the plurality of web application portions being determined based at least in part on access rights associated with the user;
• and
• loading instances of one or more of the subset of the plurality of web application portions at specified locations in one or more pages of the web application based at least in part on the received metadata;
• wherein the method is performed by at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory.