A Simple BSP Application (SAP Library - Creating Web Applications with BSPs)

A Simple BSP Application

Purpose

Welcome to the second tutorial. Here you will create your next simple BSP application using the SAP Web Application Server.

In the first tutorial you created an application to display text and pictures. This tutorial takes you one step further and shows you how to enter data and access data structures.

Introductory Comments

Now that you are familiar with the basics of the SAP Web Application Server (see Getting Started with Business Server Pages), you can tackle a more comprehensive application.

Integration

Each tutorial builds on the information presented in the previous one.

The following tutorials build on this tutorial:

Tutorial 2 with HTMLB

You can also implement the whole layout of this tutorial (which is implemented in this example using pure HTML) using BSP extension HTMLB.

Tutorial 3

Tutorial 4

Our Little Online Bookshop Using MVC and HTMLB

Note

You can also read the reference documentation on the SAP Web Application Server, which explains the system’s architecture and components:

Features

In this tutorial you will learn how to:

Create a BSP application with several pages and a navigation structure
Work with event handlers (OnInitialization, OnInputProcessing)
Read database table contents and process them
Define page attributes and apply them across several pages

Let’s get started!