SAP Gateway

SAP Gateway is a development framework, which is available as an SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP (AS ABAP) add-on, which you can install on top of your existing SAP Business Suite or application platform.

SAP Gateway offers development and generation tools to create OData services to a variety of client development tools. Put simply, it establishes a connection between SAP Business Suite data and target clients, platforms, and programming framework.

SAP Gateway provides the following functionality:

• Runtime environment for SAP solutions that integrates desktop programs with SAP systems

• Runtime features, including user interface, secure data access, database connectivity, and network communications for managing applications running on top of the framework

• Infrastructure and tools for developing applications to run on the framework or to enhance SAP solutions that integrate desktop programs with SAP systems

• Connection to multiple SAP systems regardless of their versions

The software offers service generation tools that allow you to reuse existing data sources in creating the models and by that, speed up development time. The tools enable you to generate models based on existing:

• Business objects that can be selected from the Business Object Repository (BOR)

• Remote function modules

• Dynpro screens

The tools do not require coding and allow not only to reuse exiting business objects or screens but also allow no-code based data adaptation capabilities. Data coming from multiple objects can be aggregated, filtered and adapted based on the client application requirements.

The software also offers a tool to develop models. This tool is based on the ABAP Workbench (SE80) and requires ABAP coding skills.