Develop Custom Client on MI?

[Former Member]

Hello,

This is my first post on SAP mobile and I am new to SAP & SAP mobile app developement. I want to develop a app for mobile phone to access sap back end application. I read sap mobile 7.1 documents and I came to know that I have to install sap mobile client to communicate with mobile environment (DOE). And, that mobile client requires J2ME to be installed on mobile phone and my targeted mobile phone does not support Java/J2Me unfortunately. Is there any alternate way to achieve accessing sap backend application data and manipulate from device w/o SAP MI DOE environment? Or How to develope a custom client that can communicate to DOE. Can anyone please give me a clear steps how to do this? Thanks in advance!!!

Thanks,

Chiran

[Former Member]

Hi,

Please let me know the device you are working on. Also the operating system for he device.

without this info i cant suggest u a solution, as it is dependent on development environment.

As you are new to NW Mobile I suggest you to go through the develpment guide and develop an application using SAP NW Client 7.1 before stepping into Custom Client development. It will get you a brief idea on how the mobile client works as you have to reciprocate the same in the custom client.

Thanks & Regards,

Joseph Beevin.

[Former Member]

Hi Chiran,

It is very much possible to integrate custom client with DOE and there are customers live with custom client applications running successfully with DOE.

Detailed information on integrating a custom client built on any technology is available at

[integrating custom client|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/30e033a0-73ef-2b10-b291-b653c3b48385

]

Regards,

Liji

[Former Member]

Hi Liji,

Thanks for your response with useful info. I have already read the pdf document and it contains good info, but those APIs are exposed as ABAP function modules, and I have no idea how to access them and I could not find any sample applications on that. Could you explain a bit more detailed way what are the steps to follow to implement a custom app. (any example would be fine), if you have idea on this? As per the DOE architecture, it says it implement custom client that will talk to DOE Synch. layer, but I do not know what kind of technology that should be. I am having java back ground and this is new to my technology world. Thanks in advance!

Thanks,

Chiran

[Former Member]

Hi Chiran,

You can use Java Connector (also known as J.Co) to connect to the DOE server from JAVA environment and call these function modules. To understand the input and output of these function modules, you can again refer to the same document mentioned by Liji earlier.

Regards,

Ramanath.

[Former Member]

Hi Chiran,

I have an older version of the how-to guide and this version contains more information than the final version which is available on SDN. I don't know why these details have been removed from the final version.

EDIT :I can't post the file because it's a restricted release but SAP should provide a new tutorial/wiki shortly.

Regards,

Pierre

Edited by: Pierre DOMINIQUE on Jul 8, 2009 11:48 AM