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Mastering SAP ABAP

By : Paweł Grześkowiak, Wojciech Ciesielski, Wojciech Ćwik
Book Image

Mastering SAP ABAP

By: Paweł Grześkowiak, Wojciech Ciesielski, Wojciech Ćwik

Overview of this book

Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) is an established and complex programming language in the IT industry. This book is designed to help you use the latest ABAP techniques and apply legacy constructions using practical examples. You'll start with a quick refresher on language and database concepts, followed by agile techniques for adding custom code to a modern ABAP system. After this, you will get up to speed with the complete ABAP toolset for importing data to and from different environments. Next, you'll learn how to print forms and work with the different ABAP tools for Extensible Markup Language (XML) manipulation. While covering further chapters, you'll gain insights into building stunning UI5 interfaces, in addition to learning how to develop simple apps using the Business Object Processing Framework (BOPF). You will also pick up the technique of handling exceptions and performing testing in ABAP. In the concluding chapters, you can look forward to grasping various techniques for optimizing the performance of programs using a variety of performance analysis tools. By the end of this book, you will have the expertise you need to confidently build maintainable programs in Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP).
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 8. Creating Stunning UI5 Interfaces

When the SAP environment was created, its main focus was on delivering the most reliable and efficient functionalities. As a result, it may have been observed that the user interface (UI) was somehow neglected when considering SAP products. There were some efforts to improve the overall visual reception, from new skins (themes) to SAP Graphical User Interface (GUI), WebDynPros, SAP Personas, and so on, but these were rather small and insufficient steps.

Things changed significantly once a completely new approach arose—to think Fiori. SAP Fiori had its origin in very straightforward ideas—make the interface as simple as possible and only as complicated as is necessary, make it responsive, and, most importantly, make it delightful. This approach turns away from overwhelming transaction screens, with plenty of options, buttons, popups, tables, and lists, and tailors the application to fulfill the goal of a single process without any distractions. Furthermore...