HTTP Services in SAP BTP

Definition:

The HTTP service is the component of the Application Server that provides facilities for deploying web applications and for making deployed web applications accessible by HTTP clients.

We have seen HTTP and HTTPS services in SAP ERP, there are many steps involved to create and enable this service in ERP. But in BTP its relatively Simpler, Let’s look at the steps for creating HTTP service in SAP BTP.

Planning for ABAP Cloud 1 – What is included in ABAP Cloud?

1. Introduction of ABAP Cloud

SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment, is a platform as a service offering that allow developers to create modern applications (API based, Cloud deployment, CI/CD enabled) with documented enterprise level technology. It helps us bring the enterprise quality to API based modern application with very low effort.

ABAP Cloud can help developers focus more on business logic instead of technical detail by creating technical standard independent objects and generate technical artifacts for you, as ABAP always did.

Proof of Concept: Deploying ABAP in Kubernetes

This blog post describes our experiences and findings while doing a proof of concept (PoC) in the SAP LinuxLab where we containerized the SAP ABAP application server components and deployed them on various Kubernetes environments. It will also point out potential benefits and challenges.

Please note that this document is neither a complete solution, nor does it provide any current product or development status.

ABAP new Open SQL and CDS runtime

With the introduction of NW AS ABAP 740 SPS5, the New enhanced extended Open SQL was introduced. The new enhanced open sql has some good features such introduction of aggregate functions, right outer join, casting, etc making it a starting step for Code-Push down paradigm.

Cloud Native Applications

Cloud

A cloud application is one which you access over the internet and not your own computer’s hard disk. Today, everyone seems to be moving to the cloud. Cloud products are the latest in technology trends and all companies seem to be having some offering or the other on “cloud”. But it is important to be able to analyze for ourselves, if the product is really cloud – cloud-based/cloud-ready or cloud-native/cloud-centric?