SCN Trial Editions: SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP 7.4

 

URL: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-41566?campaigncode=CRM-XM13-SOC-TW_SCN

 

Get your hands on the latest release of SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP, learn more about its new capabilities, the programming language enhancements, and test-drive the SAP development tools for Eclipse!

 

You can choose from different SCN trial editions of SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP 7.4: A preconfigured virtual appliance you can easily deploy at a cloud service provider or a classical SCN trial, you can download from the SAP Community Network (planned for Q4 2013). SAP provides this software based on a 90-day trial and evaluation license agreement.

 

 

SCN Trial as Virtual Appliance

 

 

The SCN trials of SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP 7.4 are provided as virtual appliance by the SAP Cloud Appliance Library (free of charge) and available with two different database flavors, i.e. on SAP HANA (in-memory database) and on SAP MaxDB (classical RDBMS). Both virtual appliances come with a detailed user guide describing how to set up and run these virtual appliances.

 

 

You should be familiar with the prerequisites, user guides and tutorials on our How-to and FAQ page before you order and run these virtual appliances.

 

 

To get access to these virtual appliances and run them on your own cloud service provider account please visit the SAP Store and use your SCN user to 'purchase' these free trial editions. For questions and feedback please post a message in the corresponding ABAP trial thread.

 

 

 

 

Get AS ABAP 7.4 on SAP HANA [Trial Edition]

Get AS ABAP 7.4 on SAP MaxDB [Trial Edition]

 

 

 

Tutorials and Sample Applications

 

 

All trial editions come with a pre-configured developer user, pre-installed sample applications and tutorials explaining new capabilities and technologies. The following tutorials are already available:

 

 

ABAP for SAP HANA reference scenario

The ABAP for SAP HANA reference scenario offers guides and tutorials including a pre-installed sample application which guide you through the E2E development process and provide sample coding leveraging the code-pushdown paradigm on SAP’s in-memory database. For more information please visit the reference scenario home page or directly consult the corresponding how-to guide by Jens Weiler.

 

 

How to implement an OData service with SAP NetWeaver Gateway

This how-to guide by Andre Fischer describes how to quickly create an OData service with SAP NetWeaver Gateway. You will learn how to create a data model based on a DDIC structure and implement the corresponding services using the OData channel programming model. For more information please download the how-to guide from SCN.

 

 

How to build SAPUI5/HTML5 applications consuming OData services

This blog by Bertram Ganz describes the end-to-end process required to develop a SAPUI5/HTML5 application user interface (with table, popup and ux3 shell) consuming a local OData service by SAP NetWeaver Gateway. The created OData service is based on the SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Sales and Procurement Model as a pre-installed demo/proxy application that provides a list of products as business data. For detailed instructions please download the how-to guide from SCN.