1. Introduction
SAP River is a new development language and environment for developing a complete SAP HANA backend application, describing the data model, the business logic and access control within a single, coherent and integrated program specification.
Developing an application using RDL has several key benefits over traditional technologies and development models:
To enable RDL for HANA developer in HANA, as SAP HANA administrator you have to complete below installation and configuration.
SAP River is a new development language and environment for developing a complete SAP HANA backend application, describing the data model, the business logic and access control within a single, coherent and integrated program specification.
Developing an application using RDL has several key benefits over traditional technologies and development models:
- Easier and faster development and maintenance:
- Declarative, focusing on application intent
- Expressive language constructs
- Flexible code specification, enabling easier separation of concerns and iterative refinement of application code.
- Smaller bill of materials – coherency across different layers and components of the application.
- Easily leveraging HANA’s power, while remaining agnostic to underlying technology containers (XS, SQLScript).
- Can leverage any underlying supported runtime container, without compromising on running time optimization.
- Application execution improves together with the underlying technology, transparently; taking advantage of new capabilities.
- Open to legacy and extension code, in all supported containers.
To enable RDL for HANA developer in HANA, as SAP HANA administrator you have to complete below installation and configuration.
