Online Bookshop 

Purpose

Welcome to the third tutorial! In this tutorial, you will create an online bookshop as a BSP application using SAP Web Application Server.

Introductory Comments

In the first tutorial, (see Getting Started with Business Server Pages), you output some text and pictures.

In the second tutorial, you enabled user input and access to data structures, and defined event handlers (see A Simple BSP Application). You have now implemented the second tutorial with the BSP extension HTMLB (see A Small BSP Application with HTMLB).

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an online bookshop, which will then be further developed in later tutorials.

Integration

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

The tutorial Further Developing the Online Bookshop builds on this tutorial.

You can also implement this tutorial using a combination of HTMLB and the MVC design pattern: Our Little Online Bookshop Using MVC and HTMLB.

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

Features

In this tutorial you will learn how to:

·        Use the include directive and page fragments

·        Call methods in the class CL_BOOK_SHOP

·        Keep data retrieval, evaluation, and output separate

 Let’s get started!