The developer edition of AS ABAP and SAP Business Warehouse on SAP HANA comes with a load of pre-configured users and pre-installed sample applications. Thus, you can immediately start developing or trying out new capabilities and code samples. Please find below a list of guides and tutorials which are already implemented in or are applicable for this developer edition.
For more information, see SAP developer trials and downloads (scroll down to AS ABAP, latest version).
ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP)
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Learning journey: Acquiring Core ABAP Skills
Access to ABAP on-premise-system from SAP Cloud platform
In the following tutorial mission, you will learn how to consume data of your ABAP on-premise-system in an application running on the SAP Cloud Platform over RFC:
Get Data from an On-Premise System Using a Remote Function Call (RFC)
ABAP Development: SAP Gateway
OData service development with SAP Gateway using CDS...
ABAP Custom Code Adaptation for SAP S/4HANA
ABAP Channels Demos in AS ABAP Developer Edition
Using ABAP Push Channel – Web Socket implementation for ABAP – you can push in real-time any ABAP backend data changes to your Web UI and vice versa. With ABAP Messaging Channels your ABAP application can get notified about the processing status of other ABAP sessions and react without having to poll the database periodically for an updated status. And last but not least using both ABAP Push and ABAP Messaging Channels you can implement real-time collaboration.
For more information, see the following blogs: Introduction to ABAP Channels and ABAP Channels Examples , and also the ABAP Connectivity Community.
SAP HANA Developer Guide
SAP HANA Developer Guide for SAP HANA Studio (SAP HANA Platform 2.0)
This guide explains how to build applications using SAP HANA, including how to model data, how to write procedures, and how to build application logic in SAP HANA Extended Application Services (SAP HANA XS).
The new DBACOCKPIT transaction
If you are unfamiliar with this, this short overview video (5 min.) may help:
DBACockpit Overview
ABAP Development: ABAP Programming Model for SAP Fiori (ABAP 7.5x)
Similarly, the following 4 development guides provide an end-to-end guide to developing SAP Fiori apps in SAP S/4HANA prior to version 1909 or in AS ABAP 7.50-7.52 - from creating a Core Data Services (CDS) View to a Fiori app with transactional and draft capabilities using CDS-based Business Object Processing Framework (BOPF):
Other tutorials
Other tutorials on a wide range of topics are available from the SAP Community:
SAP Developers: Tutorial Navigator
Reference Scenarios for AS ABAP Developer Editions:
Newer versions (1909 onwards)
The ABAP Flight Reference Scenario helps you to get started with development in the context of the ABAP RESTful Programming Model. It contains demo content that you can play around with and use to build your own sample applications. It is automatically included in ABAP Cloud Developer Trial:
ABAP Flight Reference Scenario
Older versions (until 7.52 SP04)
This model is now being replaced, but has been used in many community tutorials. Development objects in this model have the prefix EPM:
The NetWeaver Enterprise Procurement (EPM) Model
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