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What is a BSP Application? Overview A Business Server Page (BSP) application is a complete functional application as is a classic SAP R/3 transaction. Instead of being displayed using SAP GUI, these applications are displayed in a Web browser or a mobile device browser, such as a WAP cell phone (see also Mobile Enhancements of the SAP Web Application Server). HTTP or HTTPS is used to access the application across the network, which means that standard products like firewalls and proxy servers can be used. The Business Server Pages programming model is similar to the server page technology. The focus of the BSP programming model are points that ensure optimum structure in interfaces and business logic. For more information about BSP applications, see: •

The components of a BSP application and how they interact, see Structure of a BSP Application

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How to call an existing BSP application from a Web browser, see Accessing a BSP Application

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How to start and end a BSP application, see Starting and Ending a BSP Application

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How a BSP application is processed, see Processing a BSP Application

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How to create a BSP application, see Creating a BSP Application

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The URL parameters you can use to access the BSP runtime environment and BSP applications, see System-Specific URL Parameters

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The concept of an application class for encapsulating the business logic of a BSP application, see Application Class of a BSP Application

Tutorials The following tutorials are available: 1. • First tutorial: Getting Started with Business Server Pages 2. • Second tutorial: A Simple BSP Application and A Sample BSP Application with HTMLB 3. • Third tutorial: Online Bookshop 4. •

Fourth tutorial: Further Developing the Online Bookshop

5. • A small tutorial is also available for getting started with the Model View Controller (MVC) Design Pattern. 6. • A more comprehensive MVC tutorial based on the third tutorial: Our Online Bookshop Using MVC and HTMLB