Recent trends and progress for programming languages, software design architectures such as micro-services, protocols like OData, and the diversity of multi-tiered and distributed deployment platforms have accelerated the trend towards applications constructed out of more, smaller, decoupled and diverse modules.
Today, business applications are composed of multiple parts that are developed using different languages and technologies and deployed to a variety of target runtime environments. This diversity introduces many life-cycle challenges.
Watch this video to learn about the Multi-Target Application.
Definition A Multi-target Application (MTA) is comprised of multiple parts (modules), created with different technologies and deployed to different targets, but with a single, common lifecycle.
Simply put, an MTA is logically a single application, consisting of multiple related and interdependent parts (herein called modules) that are developed using different technologies or programming paradigms and designed to run on different target runtime environments, with a single, consistent lifecycle.
Development tools provided by SAP allow you to manage multiple applications (as "modules") in a unique development project, and deploy them via a unique archive file.
In SAP HANA Cloud we use SAP Business Application Studio as our preferred tool for Application development using the Cloud Application programming Model paradigm.
In SAP Business Application Studio we have options to either create a Basic MTA project or an SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) project. Throughout this course we will be developing the Business application and the related artifacts using the project of type CAP.
- db :
for the database level schema model.
- srv :
for the service definition layer
- app :
for UI artifacts
Watch this video to learn about the MTA Design Time and run Time relationship
