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Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

By : Mark Walker
Book Image

Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

By: Mark Walker

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating an application using XS Engine


Application creation using the XS Engine is done in four steps:

  1. Create a delivery unit: Just like when we created our modeling objects right back at the start of the book, a delivery unit is used to transport objects from one instance of SAP HANA to another.

  2. Create a package: The same notion that we saw earlier, a package groups objects together. In XS Engine development, a package can contain one or several projects, as well as any modeling objects (attribute, analytic, and calculation views) used by the project(s).

  3. Create a project: Any given web application is made up of several source files. Main pages, utility function files, graphics, and third-party libraries all need to be kept together in a project.

  4. Create application descriptor files: These files are needed by the XS Engine, and are used to describe the project, the authorizations it uses and needs, and so on.

Let's start with a simple XS Engine application—the same application you've probably...