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

OData and REST
Brush up on the basics. Get a primer on OData and the REST development paradigm.

Installation, Configuration, and Deployment
Set it up. Learn about your first steps and what deployment options are best for you.

Service Development
Build the foundation. From data model definition to service implementation to service maintenance, get a deep-dive on code-based service creation.

Service Generation
Get to know your options. Find out how to use the RFC/BOR Generator, redefinition, and model composition to create services without writing a single line of code.

Application Development
Put it in action. Learn about the SAP Gateway Productivity Accelerator and how to build applications for iPhone, Android, Windows,Twitter, Facebook, and more.

*OData and REST
*Software components and add-ons
*Deployment options
*SAP Gateway Service Builder
*Data model definition
*Service implementation
*Service maintenance
*Service documents
*SAP Gateway Productivity Accelerator
*iPhone, Android, Windows, Twitter, Facebook applications
*Authentication and single sign-on

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.