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Windows Mobile 5.0 Application

Former Member
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Hi,

How can we develop an application for Windows Mobile 5.0 without using SUP?

And my customer's requirement is to connect to SAP ERP server from the Windows Mobile which haves the Barcode scanner in it.

Please Suggest.

Regards,

Shrikant

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midhun_vp
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I will suggest you to use NW gateway.

NW Gateway can expose Odata services which can be consumed by the windows mobile device. It will be an online application.

- Midhun VP

Former Member
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But Midhun, I guess windows mobile 5 doesn't support HTML 5 application for consuming odata services. Do u mean HWC application?

Will HWC will run fine with barcode scanner?

midhun_vp
Active Contributor
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I mean native windows application.

If it is a HWC application means definitely we need SUP right.

HWC will support bar code scanning through the use of PhoneGap APIs. But in our case we are not going to use SUP hence forget about HWC app.

I used to suggest NW Gateway in place of SUP when customer require mobile solution without SUP.

- Midhun VP

Former Member
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Yes you are correct even I also thought the same. But how native application will consume odata service? As SUP is not involved so application will need to be written from scratch.

I don't have experience of native application consuming odata services.

Have u got a chance to work upon it?

midhun_vp
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Native applications can consume Odata services. Odata services are similar to REST Web services. It can be consumed in the device. We have to parse the XML data from Odata response.

Example Odata URL :

http://1111.11.11.11:8080/sap/opu/odata/sap/ZWORKLIST_SRV/POHeaderCollection?sap-ds-debug=true

It is possible to do CRUD operations through Odata.

In 2011 when Android devices were not supported by SUP I used Odata services to connect to SAP servers.

Even now you can notice the architecture of the SAP released standard apps ( ex: fin fact sheet, emp look up ) where Odata has been used to consume the data to the device, and SUP is used for features like security, push notifications. Here in the device parsing of data happens.

- Midhun VP

Former Member
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Correct Midhun.

Also, What you think about developing web services to connect to SAP from Mobile.

Coz, i guess developing web services is much easier approach then developing the OData Services.

Let me know your view.

Regards,

Shrikant

masoud_ebrahimzadeh
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Hello Shrikant

Is your issue resolved ? How ?