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Mastering SAP ABAP

By : Paweł Grześkowiak, Wojciech Ciesielski, Wojciech Ćwik
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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

Development tools


Together with the new way of thinking, new design rules, and new libraries, SAP has started to develop tools that allow the programmers to easily develop the applications in the new technology, but also to integrate them with the existing systems. As the overall policy was to make the libraries as open and as available as possible, the tool should be made publicly available as well. At first, the choice was to use the Eclipse environment, as the IDE, which is available publicly, has a great community and is being constantly improved. The SAP team has developed several plugins for the Eclipse IDE, which are responsible for managing the SAPUI5 projects, automating the applications enhancing process, and integrating Eclipse with the on-premise SAP systems, its repositories, and its transport management system.

The Eclipse IDE with all its SAP plugins was more than enough to create, maintain, and deploy the SAPUI5 applications. Although the plugins are still available, even...