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4 Setting Up Your Application
In SAP HANA Extended Application Services (SAP HANA XS), the design-time artifacts that make up your
application are stored in the repository like files in a file system. You first choose a root folder for your applicationdevelopment
activities, and within this folder you create additional subfolders to organize the applications and the
application content according to your own requirements.
Note: Application development with SAP HANA Extended Application Services (SAP HANA XS) is
currently only available as an SAP-led project solution, for pre-approved customers and partners. This
applies to server-side JavaScript programming, support for ODATA and XMLA, Web server features and
the Web application development environment. For more information, see SAP Note 1779803.
As part of the application-development process, you typically need to perform the tasks described in the following
list. Each of the tasks in more detail is described in its own section:
1. Set up delivery units.
To create and manage delivery units, you must set the identity of the vendor with whom the delivery units are
associated. To avoid conflicts with applications from SAP or other providers, we recommend that you name
the root application-development folder for your company using the DNS name of your company. For
example, you could use the name acme.com.hr.newHires for the root folder for a new application
managing new hires in a company called acme.
2. Set up SAP HANA projects.
In SAP HANA, projects enable you to group together all the artifacts you need for a specific part of the
application-development environment. To start the application-development work flow, you first create a local
workspace in the SAP HANA Development perspective, which creates a directory structure to store files on
your PC; the workspace you create enables you to synchronize changes in local files with changes in the
repository. Then you can use the SAP HANA studio to create a project to manage the development activities
for the new application.
3. Maintain repository packages.
To perform the high-level tasks that typically occur during the process of maintaining repository packages,
you need to be familiar with the concepts of packages and package hierarchies, which you use to manage the
artifacts in your applications.
4. Maintain application descriptors.
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The framework defined by the application descriptors includes the root point in the package hierarchy where
content is to be served to client requests. The framework also defines if the application is permitted to expose
data to client requests, what kind of access to the data is allowed, and what if any privileges are required to
perform actions on packages and package content.
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SAP HANA Developer Guide
Setting Up Your Application