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,
As always, thanks for reading and don't forget to check out our SAP Service Management Products at my other company JaveLLin Solutions,Mike