SAP NetWeaver Gateway:

SAP NetWeaver Gateway is a development framework, which is available

as an SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP (AS ABAP) add-on, which you
can install on top of your existing SAP Business Suite or application platform.

SAP NetWeaver Gateway offers development and generation tools to create

OData services to a variety of client development tools. Put simply, it
establishes a connection between SAP Business Suite data and target clients,
platforms, and programming framework.
SAP NetWeaver Gateway provides the following functionality:

Runtime environment for SAP solutions that integrates desktop

programs with SAP systems

Runtime features, including user interface, secure data access,

database

connectivity,

and

network

communications

for

managing

applications running on top of the framework

Infrastructure and tools for developing applications to run on the

framework or to enhance SAP solutions that integrate desktop programs
with SAP systems

Connection to multiple SAP systems regardless of their versions

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The software offers service generation tools that allow you to reuse
existing data sources in creating the models and by that, speed up
development time. The tools enable you to generate models based on
existing:

Business objects that can be selected from the Business Object

Repository (BOR)

Remote function modules

Dynpro screens

The tools do not require coding and allow not only to reuse exiting
business objects or screens but alsoallow no-code based data adaptation
capabilities. Data coming from multiple objects can be aggregated, filtered
and adapted based on the client application requirements.

The software also offers a tool to develop models. This tool is based on
the ABAP Workbench (SE80) and requires ABAP coding skills.

AP NetWeaver Gateway offers connectivity to SAP applications using any

programming language or model without the need for SAP knowledge by
leveraging REST services and OData/ATOM protocols
REST: Representational State Transfer is a style of software architecture for
distributed systems such as the World Wide Web. REST has increasingly
displaced other design models such as SOAP and WSDL due to its simpler
style. REST uses the standard GET, PUT, POST & DELETE methods and other
existing features of the HTTP protocol. Key goals of REST include Scalability
of component interactions, Generality of interfaces, Independent deployment
of components, Intermediary components to reduce latency, enforce security
and encapsulate legacy systems.
OData: The Open Data Protocol is an open web protocol for querying and
updating data. The protocol allows for a consumer to query a datasource
over the HTTP protocol and get the result back in formats like Atom, JSON or
plain XML, including pagination, ordering or filtering of the data.

Key Benefits of SAP NetWeaver Gateway:

REST-enables your SAP system, thereby lowering the data

consumption barrier to the point that no specialist knowledge of an SAP
system is required before SAP business data and functionality can be
consumed.

Hides the technical complexities of your SAP system landscape

behind a single interface that is easy-to-use and non-proprietary.

Makes your SAP business data and functionality accessible to any

external device or system that can:

Communicate using the HTTP(S) protocol.

Understand OData messages.

Provides Service Provisioning tools that allow the quick RESTenablement of existing ABAP functionality.

Provides plug-ins for well known IDEs such as Eclipse, Visual

Studio 2010 and XCode.