Create REST APIs secured with XSUAA in Cloud Foundry environment and call REST APIs in ABAP environment

ABAP programming is still the most powerful development tool in SAP core ERP, while we will find some cloud native features (ex. JWT relevant techniques) are not fully supported in ABAP environment in near future. If developers work on NetWeaver as well as Cloud Foundry environment, a workaround is to deploy REST APIs with cloud native functions in Cloud Foundry, and use ABAP programming to access the REST APIs.

Steps to create a data connection between a SAP on-premise system and SAP Web IDE using cloud connector

Overview

This blog post will guide you through the steps to create a data connection between a SAP on-premise system and SAP Web IDE. I will also be discussing steps to configure cloud to on premise and steps to map virtual to internal system in a cloud connector. At the end, I will be creating a list report application using an OData service in Web IDE.

Configure SAPCC + NW ABAP for Principal Propagation + Docker Network config for both Containers

1. Resources

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0GEg8r7P48
GitHub: https://github.com/nzamani/sap-cloud-connector-docker

Overview of ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform

SAP Cloud Platform is SAP’s strategic Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering for SAP customers and partners to build, integrate and extend SAP’s business solutions and services. Today, SAP Cloud Platform applications and extensions can be built with different development environments like Java or Node.js, but SAP’s own environment for business applications, ABAP, has not yet been available so far.

ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform is SAP’s new Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering for ABAP. Since many years, ABAP has been the foundation for SAP’s on-premise solutions. With ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP developers can make use of their existing ABAP know-how to develop and run ABAP applications in the Cloud.