Posted by admin | Posted in SAP ABAP, SAP Netweaver, SAP SOLUTION, SAP WEB | Posted on 22-06-2011
NetWeaver Gateway is positioned between end-user devices and the back end (screenshot: SAP)
Structure and functions
Since SAP NetWeaver Gateway is designed to support rapid development and ease of use, every application created with it should focus on a clearly defined business requirement while integrating the corresponding business data and processes. SAP’s technology generates the objects required based on aggregated data drawn from various SAP systems and other sources, and transfers information between user and SAP applications using a REST-based standard.
In addition to REST services, SAP NetWeaver Gateway utilizes Atom and OData 2.0 as its transfer protocols, which also support SAP-specific notes. The technology’s model repository makes it possible to save, search for, and call up analysis models following their creation, and a push channel supplies developers’ apps with information from SAP systems, which can then be transferred, for example, to an e-mail client.
Meanwhile, SAP has set its sights on establishing an ecosystem with enough expertise to meet its customers’ needs from day one. To this end, the company has joined forces with Capgemini, CompriseIT, intelligence, and Software AG to found the Design Partner Council.
An independent life cycle
To keep the respective life cycles of apps and the corresponding back end separate, SAP NetWeaver Gateway also includes an “abstraction layer.” As such, updates, upgrades, and new releases on one side won’t require adjustments on the other. Since the technology is an ABAP platform add-on, most SAP Business Suite customers – as well as those on SAP R/3 4.6C and later – will be able to use it.
Development made easy
As an additional advantage, those who develop their apps with SAP NetWeaver Gateway will be able to use more or less whatever integrated development environment they choose. SAP also plans to offer optional plugins that will make it easier to incorporate Visual Studio, Apple’s Xcode, and Eclipse. In addition to Xcode, the technology is to support Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry devices, as well as the Web frameworks .NET, Ruby on Rails, PHP, and ASP.NET. It also includes an object- and screen-based generator that will enable developers to reuse models they program just once on other end-user devices – without further coding. Preconfigured models, meanwhile, will map objects from SAP ERP and SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM), and runtime services will support IT engineers with regard to security, monitoring, and administration.
Source : SAPINFO
I was lokonig everywhere and this popped up like nothing!