As of this release, Social Media ABAP Integration Library (SAIL) in software component SAP_UI is now called ABAP Social Media Integration (ABAP SMI). Documentation has been changed to reflect the new name.
ABAP Social Media Integration (ABAP SMI) can now be used to consume OData services. OData offers a flexible and transparent concept for creating, reading, updating, and deleting data.
The ABAP SMI API offers ABAP classes and methods for building and sending OData requests to collaboration platforms such as SAP Jam and collecting the responses. In particular, ABAP SMI provides the following:
For more info about how to program with ABAP SMI, see Consuming OData Services.
The following sections were added:
For system administrators: a section with configuration information
See Configuration.
For developers: a section with programming information