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SAP Netweaver Gateway OData Sybase Unwired Server

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SAP Mobility is hot and many organisations are experimenting or even implementing mobile solutions for their enterprise users. With the new OData features in SUP 2.0 it has become easy to expose your SAP data to mobile devices. In this blog we will show you the steps needed to make connection through SUP with a Netweaver Gateway OData service. In this post I will show how to setup Sybase Unwired Platform to accept clients making OData requests to Netweaver Gateway. Also how to setup the reference application to test your setup. Setting up Sybase Unwired Platform For this post we’re going to use the demo SAP Netweaver Gateway provided by SAP ( ES Workplace ) . You have to create an ES Workplace user account, because SUP doesn't like the default given username with the @ sign in it. Then login to the Sybase Control Center and go to the security tab. Start by creating a new security profile. Just press new and give it a name. No additional settings required he...

Sybase MBO Concept and Creation

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The design cornerstone of the Sybase’s MEAP the Sybase Unwired Platform is the Mobile Business Object (MBO). The MBO encapsulates the business process logic and data into a reusable unit that can be accessed from a variety of clients. The development can take two approaches , firstly the Top-Down approach, which creates the MBO based upon how the client wants to use it… eventually binding to the data source. Secondly, the Bottom-UP approach which uses the data source to automatically bind and create the MBO. Both use the Unwired tooling and are easy to create, with similar steps listed below Connect to the back-end data sources that need to be mobilized, via the Unwired tooling Connect the Unwired tooling to the Unwired Server Create a Mobile Application Project Create the MBO from the data source via wizards or Create the MBO attributes and Create, Update, Delete Operations seperately Deploy the MBO’s to the Unwired Server Diving a bit deeper the ...

Developing SAP Android Apps is Just a Few Clicks Away

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It has never been easier to create mobile based applications connected to SAP systems. The SAP NetWeaver Gateway offers access to processes and data from a standard SAP Business Suite system (ERP, CRM ...) via open protocols. Together with the SAP NetWeaver Gateway plugin for Eclipse, anyone with a passion for Android development can immediately start using Gateway! Starting with version 2.5.2 of the plugin, an Android Toolkit is available, enabling the native Android developer to easily develop applications that consume SAP NetWeaver Gateway services. Today I will show you how easy it is to create an Android application that reads and displays data from SAP NetWeaver Gateway. I assume you already have a running Eclipse IDE with the Android Developer Tools (ADT) plugin for Eclipse installed. First thing you’ll need to do is to download and install the SAP NetWeaver Gateway plugin for Eclipse . Once installed, the second step will be to configure an NW Gateway sy...