OData and SAP Netweaver Gateway

Every developer appreciates a new tool in the toolbox—and with SAP Gateway, SAP has just given you a big one: OData. Learn what you can do when you introduce your SAP system to the wide world of open standards. Whether you’re building mobile, social media, web, or enterprise applications, OData and Gateway can help, and this book will show you how.

• Get the basics on the OData protocol and REST development paradigm
• Learn how to create OData services via service development and generation
• Explore examples of applications built using OData services and SAP Gateway
• Foreword by Dr. Vishal Sikka
• Including code downloads.
• OData and REST
• Installation, Configuration, and Deployment
• Service Development
• Service Generation
• Application Development

Part I: Getting Started

• Introduction to SAP NetWeaver Gateway
• Introduction to OData
• Architecture and Integration
• Deployment Options, Installation, and Configuration

Part II: Service Creation

• Introduction to OData Service Creation
• Service Development
• Service Generation

Part III: Application Development

• SAP NetWeaver Gateway Productivity Accelerator
• Mobile Application Development
• SAPUI5 Application Development

• Social Media Application Development
• Enterprise Application Development

Part IV: Administration

• Lifecycle Management: Testing, Service Deployment and Operations
• Security

Part V: Roadmap

• Recent and Future Developments

Carsten Bönnen has been a member of the SAP Gateway product team since 2012. In over ten years at SAP, he has also been involved in the development of both SAP Enterprise Portal and Visual Composer.

Volker Drees is a product expert for SAP Gateway and has experience in a number of areas, with a special focus on mobility.

André Fischer has been working on SAP Gateway since the launch of the product in 2011. Previously, he specialized in areas like security consulting and SAP Single Sign On, among others.

Ludwig Heinz has worked as a developer at itelligence AG since 2006. He has been a member of the SAP Design Partner Council for SAP Gateway since 2011. He also works as a college lecturer.

Karsten Strothmann is the global head of SAP Gateway CPS at SAP AG, and his previous areas of focus have included mobile, SAP SRM, and SAP Enterprise Portal.