SAP Composite Designer, What is it?

Composite Designer is yet another addition to great innovations from SAP for Netweaver Developer Studio. Though Composite Designer is just another perspective in NWDS, it is capable of implementing business logic realization and composite applications. CoDe as it popularly would be known as, unifies industry standards and common   such as Visual Composer, WebDynpro as well as SOA development.

Defining relation between different objects in the application has never been so easy. Now with the new Composite Designer, you can simply drag-drop objects to define the relation between them. Hold on! There is more to feature list. This drag-drop feature isn’t restricted to defining object relationships, but now with the cool palette you can also drag-drop UI elements to the screen. This should substantially increase the development speed. Oh before I go on, Palette is a collection of different objects and UI elements.

Composite Designer also provides relation view, a view that displays relationships between all the objects in your composite application. It also displays the deep down structure and relations between different objects. Ok! How would this help me? Relation View simply presents the skeleton of your entire project in one single view. You no more need to open different view to check the mapping or relationship between objects.

 Features in brief: 

• If you set your objects to level 1, pointing with the mouse to a development object would show a preview of the element in level 2 size.
• You can create additional development objects from the palette such as Portal Model, Task for a certain process, Visual Composer Model, JPA Entity, Flow Ruleset, with respect to SOA and service composition
• You can now use a composed service, simplified service, new external services. Most of the icons of the development objects are also updated.
• You can create new relation types including development objects from the list above. They are well described in the official documentation.     
• You can use additional frameworks integrated in the Composite Designer such as the Extensibility Configuration Framework, the Search Console, and the Predefined Templates (we will cover them in a separate blog)
• You can use the improved “Check Results” feature for testing relations with errors.

Quick Reference: Learn to create new composite applications