Development Information

Use

The SAP NetWeaver documentation is structured to enable developers to find information about the SAP NetWeaver platform, with particular regard to new technologies in each release.

How to Find the Information you Need

Each area in SAP NetWeaver can offer documentation for several target groups. The Function-Oriented View in the SAP NetWeaver Library provides information for all target groups for individual components.

To provide access to developer-relevant information for a specific key area in SAP NetWeaver the following list links either to overview documentation for developers or directly to developer-relevant sections in the function-oriented view:

Key Area	Relevant Information for Developers
SAP Composition Environment	More Information: Developing Composite Applications
SAP Business Warehouse	For SAP BW, there is a quick reference guide that provides you with an overview of the interfaces. More Information: Interfaces for Data Warehousing Interfaces for the Analytic Engine Interfaces for SAP Business Explorer
SAP Enterprise Portal	More information: Developing Applications for the Portal
SAP Process Integration	More information: Concepts Provides the basic concepts in one place. Developing and Configuring Integration Scenarios Explains end-to-end how to set up integration scenarios. Provides an overview of the basic procedures and links to detailed task descriptions. Special Development Tasks Provides procedures and concepts about specific integration topics like mapping, routing, business-to-business integration, and cross-component Business Process Management, for example.
SAP Process Orchestration	More information: Process Orchestration
SAP NetWeaver Mobile	You can find Information about tools, functions, and processes for the development of applications based on SAP NetWeaver Mobile. More information: Developing Mobile Applications

Custom Development (UI)

Area	Relevant Information for Developers
Web Dynpro ABAP Development in the Eclipse-based integrated development environment	Choose Help Help Contents in the Web Dynpro ABAP Development to find the following Eclipse Help Book: SAP - Web Dynpro ABAP Development User Guide
UI Development based on SAPUI5	UI Development Toolkit for HTML5 (SAPUI5) UI development toolkit for HTML5 (SAPUI5) and SAP NetWeaver User Interfaces Services are integrated into SAP NetWeaver
UI Development in the ABAP environment	SAP GUI Business Server Pages
UI Development in the Java environment	UI Frameworks Based on Java Web Dynpro Java and Visual Composer are the main development tools in the Java environment

Custom Application Development (ABAP)

This use case is relevant for all areas that allow ABAP development on the Application Server ABAP.

Area	Relevant Information for Developers
ABAP development	More information: Application Development on AS ABAP
ABAP Development with the Eclipse-based “ABAP Development Tools” .	Choose Help Help Contents in the “ABAP Development Tools” to find the following Eclipse Help Books: SAP - ABAP Development User Guide SAP - ABAP for HANA Development User Guide SAP - ABAP Web Services

Area

Relevant Information for Developers

ABAP development

More information: Application Development on AS ABAP

ABAP Development with the Eclipse-based “ABAP Development Tools” .

Choose Start of the navigation path Help Next navigation step Help Contents End of the navigation path in the “ABAP Development Tools” to find the following Eclipse Help Books:

SAP - ABAP Development User Guide
SAP - ABAP for HANA Development User Guide
SAP - ABAP Web Services

Further Developer-Relevant Documentation

Area	More Information
Java API and JavaScript API documentation	http://help.sap.com/javadocs
An overview about developing secure applications based on the SAP NetWeaver platform	Secure Programming