I suppose the writing bug has been making its way around SDN. Earlier this fall both Shameless Plug: The SAP Developer's Guide to PHP and SDN works! A small story and a shamless plug wrote weblogs announcing that they had written books for SAP Press. Both of their works expanded upon topics that they had each covered within SDN. Well they weren't the only ones working till the wee hours of the morning on a labor of love. Brian and myself have spent the last 6 months or so creating a book for SAP Press covering a topic that is obviously near and dear to both of us - BSP. Although there has been a lot written about BSP on SDN already; we wanted to create a single definitive work on the subject. Our starting point for the book was actually a selection of a few key weblogs. From there we filled in the gaps with topics that will hopefully take any developer all the way from writing their first simple BSP application all the way through to complex real world applications.
Targeting a book of this size (nearly 500 pages) allowed us to go into more depth and detail then every before. It also gave us the opportunity for the first time to update and ship, in an importable format, some of the popular additions to BSP that have been described via weblogs in the past.
Updated! I have had a few email request from people wanting to order from outside Europe or using an order form in English. The SAP-Press US website is also available to take orders. However due to shipping times from Europe to the US, it may still be a couple of weeks before the book is "officially released" in the US.
Table Of Contents
In order to give you an idea of what we covered in this book, I thought I might just share the high level Table of Contents.
- Internet Communications Manager
- Internet Communication Framework
- BSP Development Environment
- HTMLB Rendering Family
- BSP Compiler
- BSP Runtime
- BSP Debugger
- MIME Repository
- Viewing the HTTP Traffic
- Structure of HTTP
- Server Objects for HTTP Request and Response
- HTML Forms and Data Handling
- Mapping of HTML onto HTTP Requests
- Cookies
- HTTP Redirects
- Handling of HTML Resources in HTTP
- Troubleshooting Examples
- URL Handling in the ICF Tree
- URL Mapping
- Sample Handler for Reading Images
- Alias Handling
- Handler Example - Table Query
- URL Mangling
- Fully Qualified Domain Names
- Namespace Mapping
- URL Parameters
- URL Escaping
- Basic Authentication
- Single Sign-On
- Digital Certificates
- Anonymous Services
- Form-Based Authentication
- Implementing a Simple Logon Application
- De-Authentication
- Session Identification
- Session Timeout
- Confusion with Processing Timeout
- Catching and Handling a Restart after Timeout
- Session Management from the Browser
- Warning the User of a Pending Timeout
- Using a BSP Application in a Dynpro
- Pitfalls when Using BSP Applications with SAP GUI
- Interaction between SAP GUI and BSP Applications
- Starting a New Browser Outside the SAP GUI
- Test Applications
- Quick Sizing with HTTP Trace Tool
- Network Latency
- Server Processing Time
- Browser Rendering Time
- Determining Hotspots
- Load Testing
- SQL Traces
- Extension Overview
- HTMLB Event System
- Common Extension Elements
- BSP Element Expressions
- Table View Iterators
- Creating a BSP Extension Element
- Writing a Composite Element
- A Deeper Look at BSP Extension Events
- Event Handling in Composite Elements
- Business Text Framework
- Internet Graphics Service
- BSP Library
- MVC Design Paradigm
- Application Structure
- Model Binding
- Dynamic Model Binding
- Stateless MVC
- Building a Pattern Engine with MVC
- F1 - Field Level Help
- Dialog Windows
- F4 - Value Help
- Multiple Language Support
- Logon Language
- Unicode
- Online Text Repository (OTR)
- Translation
- Date Format
- MIME Repository
- ICM File Handler
- Handling Non-HTML Documents
- Data Manipulation
- Microsoft Excel Download
- Pushing the Excel Content back through the browser
- BSP Extension Element for Excel Download
- Alternatives to the MIME Repository
- ZIP Tool
- Customization Overview
- Export-Modify-Import
- NetWeaver Theme Editor
- ALFS - ABAP Look-and-Feel Service
- Configure a Theme Root
- Theme Root White List
- Error Pages
- Logon Application
- Field History
- Server-Side Printing
- Select-Options/Parameters
- Interactive Excel
- RSS Feeds
- Mini-Portal
Code Samples
In addition, the book will ship with a CD. I'm really excited about this part. I have always wanted a better way to share some of the source code especially for BSP Extensions. For example I have struggled to find a good way to share the code of the Value Help Extensions. Finally we had the opportunity to recreate these examples in a very portable manner.
On the CD you will find all the source code discussed in the book plus examples that expand upon those in the book. This is over 500 development objects in all. Every piece of code is delivered as a text file so that you pick and choose which you might want to import into your system. However we have also shipped a transport file that contains all the code. This will finally make it easy to import some of the more complex BSP Extension Element examples!
The following shows the Package Hierarchy that will be created by the imported source code:
But we also ship plenty of new BSP Extensions along with the book. The groupings of these new Extensions are as follows:
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