Now, silly me, I really thought once I developed something, had it working, that I’d be able to just copy and paste and “alakazam”, it would work. I really should know better than that by now, but hey, wishful thinking :). So, here’s what happened. I did all of my development in eclipse, ran it off the local server, used a simple proxy servlet, and everything worked great… well except that no one else could see it unless I showed them on my machine. So I started digging. A good friend of mine told me to check out the Hana Cloud Platform. They have free versions. So I did… and I’m really glad that I did. However, like everything, the design of my app wouldn’t work in the cloud.
First I tried just adding HCP to my eclipse platform… no love. No matter how hard I tried, it wouldn’t work (granted, if I used my current version, it might now). So, I tried just creating a template app in the SAP Web IDE, then copying my code into there… nothing but errors. After trying lots of other little attempts, I faced reality and started with a clean slate from the Web IDE. I was able to salvage a lot of my original code, but of course, I had to add it in piece by piece, and often rewrite or move pieces of code within other functions.
When it was all said and done, I ended up with a better product (because I got to leverage new SAP standard functionality like the cloud connector, the Web IDE, and routing features that I’m only now beginning to understand 🙂
Stay tuned. I’m finalizing my first round of testing, then I’ll send it out and hope to get your feedback on it,
Thanks for reading,