Connecting with SAP database ? (Beginner)

[Former Member]

Hey all,

     Am a complete beginner in developing SAP iOS apps. can you suggest me some simple tutorials to connect with SAP databases from Xcode, so that i can access SAP data from iOS simulators? . I need a kickstart !

[Former Member]

Hello Ivan,

Thanks for your reply,sir.And to the question now , can i expose the SAP function module to webservice ,that is all the data of the function module to an XML file , and also  making the SAP server and the mobile client under same VPN . From Xcode we can parse the XML from the URL and gather the data, possible?

[Former Member]

Yes, it is possible to parse XML in Cocoa, there are specific API calls in iOS for this.

[Former Member]

Thanks for your reply Mr.Ivan , am a budding iOS dev . Hope you will help me in future in iOS development .

Thanks

-Khan

[Former Member]

Hello Ivan ,

                 First of all thanks for your reply .  I want to establish the same connection without SUP servers, say like using VPN and calling the RFC modules with BAPI , possible?

[Former Member]

I am afraid that I know nothing about RFC and BAPI. I know iOS programming very well after many years of programming Objective-C, and maybe you can use TCP/IP sockets to connect this way? But that is a very low level programming, and maybe SAP have a framework that can be used for RFC and BAPI.

[Former Member]

Try my tutorial at http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/mobility-platform/blog/2013/01/03/sup101-ios6-client