Ideas worth reading — written by the people at Bowdark. From enterprise architecture to practical leadership, these are the titles our team has put into the world.
Jeffrey Boggess
Senior Solution Architect· 2026
A hands-on guide to transitioning from procedural to object-oriented ABAP, covering core OOP concepts like encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism alongside modern development scenarios in the ABAP RESTful application programming model and SAP BTP ABAP environment.
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Colby Hemond
Senior Solution Architect· 2024
A practical step-by-step guide to using abapGit for version control in SAP development, covering installation, package organization, branching workflows, and CI/CD integration for both individual and team projects.
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James Wood
Principal Architect· 2021
A deep-dive reference for ABAP developers looking to build and enhance web applications using SAP's Floorplan Manager for Web Dynpro ABAP, covering everything from core framework concepts to advanced UI customization and application enhancement.
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James Wood
Principal Architect· 2017
A concise E-Bite guide to using the Business Object Processing Framework (BOPF) alongside ABAP OOP skills to build, manage, and enhance large-scale business objects — covering nodes, queries, the Client API, and the Transaction Manager.
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James Wood
Principal Architect· 2017
A focused E-Bite extracted from the broader OOP with ABAP Objects book, teaching developers how to write more flexible and reusable code by mastering inheritance, composition, and polymorphism in ABAP Objects.
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James Wood
Principal Architect· 2017
A concise E-Bite guide to building persistence classes with the ABAP Object Services framework, covering object-relational mapping and the Persistence, Query, and Transaction Services.
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Joe Rupert
Senior Solution Architect· 2017
A focused E-Bite on class-based exception handling in ABAP OOP, teaching developers how to create local and global exception classes, define exception texts, trap errors, and cleanly resume program flow.
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James Wood
Principal Architect· 2016
A practical E-Bite guide to locking down SAP HANA Cloud Platform applications using declarative and programmatic security, SAML, OAuth, and the SAP Cloud Identity Service.
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James Wood
Principal Architect· 2015
A comprehensive introduction to SAP HANA Cloud Platform covering how to build, deploy, and secure Java, native HANA, and HTML5 applications, as well as develop hybrid extensions for SAP cloud solutions like SuccessFactors.
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James Wood
Principal Architect· 2013
A comprehensive A-to-Z reference for Web Dynpro ABAP development, taking readers from foundational concepts through advanced topics like Floorplan Manager and SAP NetWeaver Portal integration, with hands-on workbook exercises throughout.
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James Wood
Principal Architect· 2011
A developer-focused guide to building interfaces with SAP NetWeaver Process Integration, blending conceptual theory with practical code samples and coverage of complementary web technologies used in modern integration development.
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James Wood
Principal Architect· 2010
A recipe-style reference for ABAP developers offering practical, tutorial-based solutions to everyday programming challenges spanning persistence, interface programming, security, and more.
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