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SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

By : Rehan Zaidi
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SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

By: Rehan Zaidi

Overview of this book

ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is SAP's proprietary 4th Generation Language (4GL). SAP core is written almost entirely in ABAP.ABAP is a high level programming language used in SAP for development and other customization processes."SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook"ù covers advanced SAP programming applications with ABAP. It teaches you to enhance SAP applications by developing custom reports and interfaces with ABAP programming. This cookbook has quick and advanced real world recipes for programming ABAP.It begins with the applications of ABAP Objects and ALV tips and tricks. It then covers Design Patterns and Dynamic Programming in detail.You will also learn the usage of quality improvement tools such as transaction SAT, SQL Trace, and the Code Inspector.Simple transformations and its application in Excel Downloading will also be discussed, as well as the newest topics of Adobe Interactive Forms and the consumption and creation of Web services. The book comes to an end by covering advanced usage of Web Dynpro for ABAP and the latest advancement in Floorplan Manager.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Consuming a Web service


In this recipe, we will see how we can create a client proxy based on a given Web service (using its WSDL document). As an example, we will use the Web service that we created earlier in this chapter. We will use the Web service wizard from the transaction SE80. This will generate the class and other necessary objects that are needed to call the Web service.

How to do it...

We will now follow the steps as shown:

  1. Go to transaction SE80, and select the menu option Edit Other Object.

  2. On the dialog box that appears, choose the Enterprise Services tab and in the Client Proxy field enter a suitable name. Then click on the Create button.

  3. The wizard will then start. The first step will ask for the Source of the Web service. Choose the option URL/HTTP Destination and click on Continue.

  4. For the next step of the wizard, enter the WSDL URL of our Web service binding. This is the same URL as shown in the Service Definition Overview tab in the SOAMANAGER transaction.

  5. Enter the URL in...