Week 1: Introduction – ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model

Unit 1: The Big Picture

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Topics

01 The Big Picture

02 Architecture Overview

03 Involved Technologies

04 Introducing SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP Environment

05 Preparing Your ABAP Development Environment

Week 1 06 Creating Your First ABAP Cloud Console App

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Modern ABAP application development

Focus on Utilize SAP HANA Efficient

Cloud
User Experience capabilities development

Role-based ABAP managed code Secure app development, In-app extensibility

pushdown high code quality (stable cloud extensions)
Browser-based
Code management Side by side
On any device (whitelisted APIs)
Testability
Device switch Stateless cloud-ready apps
Supportability for scalability and elasticity
Documentability

SAP Fiori and SAPUI5, ABAP SQL, Core Data ABAP Development Tools, In-App extensibility,
RESTful protocols Services (CDS), and code development methodology SAP Cloud Platform
pushdown in SAP HANA

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The approach
… AS A STRATEGICAL LONG-TERM SOLUTION FOR ABAP DEVELOPMENT

… FOR THE EFFICIENT DEVELOPMENT OF

SAP Fiori apps and Web APIs,
from scratch or by integrating legacy code

… OFFERING AN END-TO-END DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE WITH

PROVIDE A standardized development flow

PROGRAMMING best practices & development guides
MODEL … high development efficiency
focus on business logic, rather than technical aspects
native testability, documentability, and supportability
code pushdown to SAP HANA
comfortable support for stateless and stateful environments

… SUPPORTING THE PRODUCT QUALITIES

User Experience: SAP Fiori and SAP HANA
Cloud: scalability
Flexibility: break-outs for non-standardized implementations
Out-of-the-box extensibility and verticalization
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The ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP)

The ABAP RESTful PROGRAMMING MODEL

consists of …

SAP Fiori UI services

CONCEPTS Service development
Web APIs
TOOLS
Greenfield
Universally usable developments
FRAMEWORKS
programming model Brownfield
developments
LANGUAGES
SAP S/4HANA
Available on-premise
BEST PRACTISES
and in the cloud SAP Cloud Platform,
ABAP environment

… for the efficient development of

ENTERPRISE-GRADE APPLICATIONS

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The key players

ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse for all development tasks

Easy developer onboarding
End-to-end development flow

Languages: ABAP and CDS

Standard implementation tasks via typed APIs supporting
static code checks, auto-completion, element info

Powerful frameworks
Take over technical implementation tasks
Business logic added in code exits on protocol-agnostic layers

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RAP at a glance

SAP Fiori elements or SAPUI5 freestyle

SAP Fiori UI Other Clients Service consumption via Web APIs

OData Powerful querying through OData protocol

Powerful service runtime frameworks

First-class support for SAP Fiori and SAP HANA
Enterprise
Application Out-of-the-box implementations
Infrastructure
Draft support for SAP Fiori UIs
Built-in extensibility capabilities

CDS is our ubiquitous modeling language to declare

Core Data Services (CDS)
domain data models

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Evolution towards the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP)

SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP Environment

ABAP Platform ≤ 7.5 ABAP Platform ≥ 7.5
SAP S/4HANA ≥ 1909

CLASSIC ABAP PROGRAMMING MODEL ABAP RESTful APPLICATION

ABAP PROGRAMMING FOR SAP FIORI PROGRAMMING MODEL

SEGW / @OData
Business Service
Referenced Data Source
Best practice freestyle
ABAP programming
Core Data CDS-Based Core Data Behavior Definition
Services (CDS) BOPF Services & Implementation

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Wrap-up

IN THIS UNIT, YOU LEARNED

▪ About requirements in modern app development
▪ What the mission of RAP is
▪ That RAP is the strategic long-term solution for ABAP development
▪ Which parts make RAP

NEXT UNIT
▪ Week 1 – Unit 2
Architecture Overview

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i Additional Material
Further reading

ABAP RESTful APPLICATION PROGRAMMING MODEL

INFORMATION PAGE

For more information, links to documentation, tutorials, and more, please

visit the RAP at openSAP information page by following the link below

RAP at openSAP information page (week 1)

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