IT Scenario-Driven Enhancements to Applications 

You are planning to develop an application, or are already doing so, or you are planning to extend an existing application based on the SAP NetWeaver™ platform. You are familiar with the fundamentals of application development, know how to handle the software logistics for ABAP and/or Java development.

But what makes a good application built in ABAP or Java a really powerful application?

• It can be integrated with other applications.
• It can make use of services provided by other applications or a business process platform.
• It can expose services to other applications for reuse.
• Its persisted data can be leveraged in a knowledge management scenario.
• It can be integrated in a centralized monitoring infrastructure.
• It can make use of advanced concepts, such as adaptive computing, for efficient hardware resource consumption.

And these are just a few examples.

 

The units in this section of the NW Developer’s Guide describe how to approach each of these integration topics when planning and executing your development project. Each of these topics is embedded in an IT scenario view.

 

An IT scenario provides a process-oriented view of a certain subset of SAP NetWeaver capabilities, suitable for implementing those capabilities in a project. There are different kinds of scenarios, ranging from pure development through supporting a particular integration goal to setting up or operating the IT infrastructure in a certain way.

 

Typical aspects covered in these units answer questions like the following:

• What do you have to do when planning and developing your application in order to make it fit into a service-oriented architecture, that is, how and where do you need to model your data types and business objects in order for them to be exposed to other applications?
• What do you have to do to have your application's data easily integrated into an enterprise data warehousing scenario?
• What do you have to do to ensure that your application can easily participate in integrated access management and user management, and provide single sign-on capabilities, for example, for UI integration in the portal?

Once again, these are just a few examples... Read on to find out more about those important development topics.