This book shows advanced ABAP programmers new concepts, technologies, techniques, and functions that have been introduced to the ABAP in the last few years. Based on a single real-world example that runs throughout the book — a university upgrading from SAP R/3 4.6C to SAP NetWeaver 7.0 (2004s) — you’ll follow along with the university’s lead ABAP developer as he develops a custom course booking system. This unique approach allows readers to view the entire process of design, development, and testing — right through the eyes of a developer. You’ll quickly familiarize yourself with all of the new possibilities in ABAP while discovering a series of actual scenarios that could easily be encountered in a real-life project. In certain areas the authors also provide you with a glimpse towards upcoming ABAP releases, as well as references to former releases, as required.
Highlights include:
New ABAP Workbench Capabilities
Strings and Binary Strings in Transparent Tables
Web Service Proxies, Exposing Web Services
Persistent Objects, ZIP Compression, Shared Memory Objects
ABAP Unit
Regular Expressions
Web Dynpro ABAP, Web Dynpro Debugger View
SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe, Business Server Pages, AJAX
Visual Composer, Portal Eventing, SAP NetWeaver Business Client
A developer’s guide to new technologies and techniques in SAP NetWeaver 7.0 (2004s)
Discusses the new ABAP Editor, ABAP Unit testing, regular expressions, shared memory objects, and more
Covers an entire development project through the eyes of a developer
Rich Heilman
Rich Heilman is a senior technical specialist with the EPM RIG at SAP Labs, LLC. Rich joined SAP in 2007 and had the opportunity to contribute to the development of the SAP Business Planning & Consolidation version for the SAP NetWeaver product. He then transitioned into a solution management role in 2008, and finally joined the RIG at the end of 2009. Before joining SAP, Rich worked for an SAP customer. Rich transitioned from RPGIV on the AS/400 into ABAP when the company decided to implement SAP R/3 4.6c in 2001. He was involved in many projects, developing custom ABAP and Java applications to satisfy business requirements. For the past several years, he has presented at the annual ASUG Spring Conference and the SAP TechEd Conference. He is also one of the top contributors on SDN, spending much of his time answering questions in the ABAP forums.
ABAP ABAP development ABAP editor SAP NetWeaver SAP NetWeaver 2004s ABAP 7.0 Development Programming SAP PRESS