Developing Business Applications with

Application Programming Model of SAP Cloud Platform

Sanjay Patil, Babu Ganesh V.
Strategy & Product Management, SAP Cloud Platform
Oct 2018
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 WebIDE/ App Center/
UI5 / Fiori Mobile Co-Pilot
Cockpit Marketplace

APIs & Events

Rates & LOBs &

Master data objects

Commerce Globalization Master Data …

Measures Industries

Analytics Machine Learning Blockchain IoT Data Intelligence Big Data

Data
Integration & Data Privacy & Dev XP & DevOps Management
Business Suite UX & Mobile Collaboration
Orchestration Security
BW

2 2
NEO

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 Cloud Foundry environment in SAP Cloud Platform

Environment

Authorization & Trust Corporate

App SAP Web IDE App Autoscaler
XSA/XSC Management Identity Provider
Developer Full-Stack
Your
Application

Cloud Logging Services

Foundry
CLI
RabbitMQ
… Redis Connectivity Cloud
Connector

SAP
Admin Cloud
SAP HANA PostgreSQL
Platform Job Scheduler Innovation Services
cockpit

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Demo Application Scenario

Business Wishlist of Customer Could we help

Innovation Items Input Franck and Mary
Franck is a Franck maintains Customers like to get cool items
Manager in a a Wishlist of Mary provide in the store?
home furniture attractive items ratings for Franck
franchise with for adding to his to prioritize his
dwindling sales assortment Wishlist

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 Furniture Shop Application - Architecture See TechEd Session OPP363

Environment

SAP HANA

Franck SAPUI5 Application Wishlist service

Store Manager with [SAP Business Application] On-Premise
Connectivity Cloud
passion for attractive System
Connector
assortment of item

PostgreSQL

Mary SAPUI5 Application Ratings Service

Customer Willing [Node.js Express App]
Rabbit MQ
to Provide Input
User Interface Microservices Backing Services

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Developing Full-Stack Business Applications

SAP Web IDE SAP Cloud Platform

User Interface Cloud Foundry

Business Services

Data Models
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Demo ..

http://bit.ly/opp363-docs

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Developing Full-Stack Business Applications

SAP Web IDE SAP Cloud Platform

User Interface Cloud Foundry

Business Services

Data Models
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Define Data Models

SAP Web IDE SAP Cloud Platform

User Interface Cloud Foundry

Business Services

Data Models
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 The 12-factor app
[http://12factor.net/]

I. Codebase VII. Port binding

- One codebase tracked in revision control, many deploys - Export services via port binding

II. Dependencies VIII. Concurrency

- Explicitly declare and isolate dependencies - Scale out via the process model
III. Config
- Store config in environment IX. Disposability
- Maximize robustness with fast startup and graceful
shutdown
IV. Backing Services
- Treat backing services as attached resources
X. Dev/prod parity
V. Build, release, run - Keep development, staging, and production as
- Strictly separate build and run stages similar as possible

VI. Processes XI. Logs

- Execute the app as one or more stateless processes - Treat logs as event streams

XII. Admin processes

- Run admin/management tasks as one-off
processes
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Business Application
@ SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry Environment

A logical view of a sample business app:

Environment

• Consists of multiple micro-services which

are deployed as separate applications Your Application
any buildpack
Your Service 1
• Each micro-service can be developed in service instance App Autoscaler

different language Your Service 2

service instance PostgreSQL
App User
• Micro-services use multiple backing
Your Service 3
services service instance Redis

Admin

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Backing Services besides SAP HANA
Provision, Operate and Scale

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Object Store

Redis
RabbitMQ
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Define Business Services

SAP Web IDE SAP Cloud Platform

User Interface Cloud Foundry

Business Services

Data Models
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Application Deployment Process
$ cf push

UPLOAD STAGE START

➢ upload application ➢ build droplet ➢ start app container

Find more info: https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/devguide/deploy-apps/app-lifecycle.html

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How applications are staged and started?

Staging is the process of creating an application package (droplet) that contains all needed components for
the application to run (e.g. runtime, drivers, additional libraries, etc.).

staging
+
buildpack droplet

+ start

droplet rootfs
application
For more information: http://docs.cloudfoundry.org/concepts/how-applications-are-staged.html
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Runtimes & Containers
Overview

With Cloud Foundry environment, SAP Cloud Platform enables the usage of additional programming languages and
frameworks via buildpacks*

….

Java HTML5 Node.js <your choice>

▪ Develop, deploy and ▪ Develop and run ▪ Benefit from multiple ▪ Bring your own
operate Java HTML5 applications Node.js packages language and runtime
applications available of choice
▪ Benefit from multiple
▪ E.g. complex SAPUI5 code ▪ Develop and run ▪ Choose from existing
integration projects templates Node.js applications in community buildpacks
the cloud or develop your own
* Note: There is Enterprise Support only for selected buildpacks.

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Define User Interface

SAP Web IDE SAP Cloud Platform

User Interface Cloud Foundry

Business Services

Data Models
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Multitarget Application (MTA) Concept
Motivation – Heterogeneity of cloud software…

Cloud applications often show a high heterogeneity

▪ Consisting of multiple interdependent software “modules”
▪ Written in different languages (polyglot)
▪ Using multiple programming paradigms and development tools SAP Cloud Platform
▪ Deployed to multiple target runtimes Roles Java
JavaScript
▪ Involving different products
HTML5
…

As modules provide single coherent application

Stored DB
purpose, shared single lifecycle is desired procedure Core Data
Cloud Integration SAP Services model
▪ to deploy all parts together, in the right order, automatically HANA
▪ to manage configuration of complete solution

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Multitarget Application (MTA) Concept
…and our approach to tackle it

To ease handling of such a combined single lifecycle, SAP introduced

multitarget applications (MTAs)
▪ Hand-over artifact between development and operation + delivery construct for partners
▪ Can be delivered, transported, linked to SAP software components, and deployed
▪ Process can be automated in a continuous integration pipeline
▪ For more information about MTAs, see SAP Help Portal

Module 1 Java
module
module
Archive Deploy
HTML5
MTA deployment
descriptor
MTA SAP HANA
archive
(MTAR) …

Develop Operate

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The Application Programming Model for SAP Cloud Platform

The Application Programming Model for SAP Cloud Platform is SAP Web
IDE

an integrated framework of tools, languages and libraries to Eclipse

VSCode CLI CDS

efficiently and rapidly build enterprise services and

applications in a full-stack development approach. Node.js
express
Service
SDKs

It guides developers along a golden path of best practices,

Java EE, REST
Spring OData
allowing them to focus on their domain while relieving them
from tedious technical tasks. HANA Fiori

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Overview
We complement cloud-native technologies with…
▪ a CDS-based Services framework
localIDE

SAPApp
Fiori
UIs?
+ other

Platform Services
Web IDE +Web

with 1st-class support by and for…

CDS
CDS
CDS Domain Logic?
Service SDKs

▪ SAP Web IDE w/ tailored tools

local

SAP
Domain
HANA
Model?
+ other
▪ SAP Fiori
Infrastructure ▪ SAP HANA
▪ S/4 Extension scenarios

Resulting in…
planned:

 A consistent end-to-end programming model for

enterprise services & applications
 Guidance and best practices leveraging proven
SAP technologies + Open Source software

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 Best Practices & Benefits…

SAP Fiori Angular React Vue •••

Capture Intent on Conceptual Level

Accelerate your Projects
SAP Web IDE Cloud Foundry
Core
Leverage proven Methods
Eclipse Kubernetes
Node.js Java
Openness & Flexibility
XSA
VSCode Core Data Services
Enterprise Qualities
local
•••
Cloud Qualities

SAP HANA PostgreSQL sqlite •••

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Join the new SAP PartnerEdge – Build Learning Room

1. Join the learning room: https://enrollment-

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mID=LR_PE_BUILD_EN
2. Webinars
 View upcoming webinars for ‘build’ partners
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?edit_mode=true
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 Join in the discussion regarding upcoming / past
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Thank you!
Sanjay Patil Babu Ganesh V.

Twitter: @sanjaypatil Twitter: @babuganesh1982

Email: sanjay.patil@sap.com) Email: babu.ganesh.v@sap.com)