ABAP_to_the_Future

Summary 13.8
Synactive must have been very sad when SAP came out with its own equivalent, called
SAP Screen Personas, which enables you to do the same sort of thing but to a much
greater extent and in a web browser. You have a tool to drag and drop elements of SAP
screens around, and then you can write code (JavaScript) to add whatever functionality
you feel like (e.g., changing a three-screen transaction into one screen). Using SAP
Screen Personas used to cost you money, but it’s now as free as GuiXT has always been.
13.8 Summary
This chapter introduced you to the latest player in SAP’s UI strategy, SAPUI5, and
showed you how to go about building appl ications with it. This concludes the
book’s coverage of UI technologies; the last part of the book will focus on the
database aspect of ABAP programming—ending with everyone’s favorite lady,
SAP HANA.
Recommended Reading
왘 Getting Started with SAPUI5: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-48897
왘 End-to-End How-To Guide: Building SAPUI5 Applications on SAP NetWeaver AS
ABAP 7.31 Consuming Gateway OData Services: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-
33792 (Betram Ganz and Bernhard Siewert)
왘 JavaScript for ABAP Developers: http://scn.sap.com/community/abap/blog/2014/02/
18/javascript-for-abap-developers (Chris Whealy)
왘 Getting Started with SAPUI5 (Antolovic, SAP PRESS, 2014)
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