SAP NW 7.4 is basically successor
of NW 7.0x and particularly NW 73 not
just from general SAP Application Server - ABAP stack point of view but it
comes with many features with regards to HANA. Reason being is that the NW 74
got optimized for the HANA. This doesn’t mean that other
databases are not supported. Sure they are just focus of optimization is just
HANA. The NW 74 is foundation of Business Suite and all its innovations of
20013 and BW 7.4.
The NW 7.4 is available
since May 2013. Currently there are following SP of NW 74:
SAP NetWeaver 7.4 SP0 GA
May 2013
SAP NetWeaver 7.4 SP2 GA May
2013
SAP NetWeaver 7.4 SP3 GA July
2013
SAP NetWeaver 7.4 SP4 GA November
2013
SAP NetWeaver 7.4 SP5 GA
December 2013
SAP NetWeaver 7.4 SP6 GA March
2014
SAP NetWeaver 7.4 SP7 GA
June 2014
SAP NetWeaver 7.4 SP8 GA September
2014 – so called Service release SRS2
SAP NetWeaver 7.4 SP9 GA November
2014
So now let’s have a look
what new is available in NW 74, of course majority of them are focused on HANA.
A list below is gathered on NW 7.4 SP8:
- “Code to data” ABAP code paradigm:
This means that instead to do complex or data intensive operations on ABAP application
server the logic is moved one floor down to database means to data layer. There
are many new ABAP statements available to support this approach. Following are techniques
to support this: ABAP Managed Database Procedures (AMDP), Native SQL (ABAP
Database Connectivity (ADBC)), Open SQL enhancements for building views for CDS,
Optimized protocols (Fast Data Access), Table buffer enhancements, Core Data
Services (CDS) etc.
- Development environment in Eclipse: basically
all the development (not only in ABAP but UI and HANA development) can happen
now in one tool – the Eclipse.
Means co-development and deployment of HANA and ABAP artefacts.
- Components like
Application List Viewer (ALV) and Business Rules Framework (BRF+) optimized for HANA: e.g. ALV optimized
for HANA (ALV on HANA), these components are directly leveraging power of HANA,
e.g. result set or help displayed in drop down boxes for ALV is reduced already
in DB by code-to-data approach.
- SAP Gateway and
SAPUI5
functionalities out of the box: systems based on NW 74 are
ready for exposing its data via SAP Gateway
using SAPUI5
user interface.
- Majority
of NW 74 offerings available in SAP
Cloud Appliance Library (CAL): from the CAL the SAP system can be easily
deployed from variety of preconfigured Rapid Deployment Solutions (RDS).
- New developer tools e.g. for testing,
monitoring: SQL Performance Tuning
Worklist (SWLT), ABAP SQL Monitor (tcodes: SQLMD, SQLM)
Useful links:
NetWeaver Community page at SCN
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