ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model

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You've worked with ABAP, SAP Fiori, and core data services—now see how these technologies come together in the ABAP RESTful application programming model. Learn to develop applications optimized for SAP S/4HANA, whether on-premise or in the cloud. Follow step-by-step instructions to build new ABAP applications, update legacy ones, and reuse existing source code. Explore programming model basics, including REST architecture and components of the ABAP RESTful application programming model. Discover the tools and technologies for building end-to-end applications. Engage in hands-on application development with core data services for data modeling, defining and implementing behaviors, accessing business objects with the entity manipulation language, and building a UI with SAP Fiori. Adjust your skills to work with the SAP BTP, ABAP environment in the cloud. Develop new applications using SAP Fiori elements floorplans, integrate existing applications into the ABAP RESTful application programming model, and reuse source code from current applications. Highlights include REST architecture, core data services (CDS), behavior definition and implementation, business service definition and binding, field definitions, associations, actions, entity manipulation language (EML), SAP Fiori elements, SAP Business Application Studio, Visual Studio Code, and SAP BTP, ABAP environment.