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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

The SAPUI5 library


Once the top-level view of the application is already designed, it is time to get familiar with the actual building blocks of the UI. SAPUI5 is already a mature library with a plethora of controls and elements. In order to get a quick overview of most of them, it is recommended that you visit https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/#/controls, which contains various samples and use cases of the most common ones.

Note

The samples are ready to download and run in the developer's chosen IDE, or simply to check all the source codes.

 

During the actual development, it is more convenient to use the API reference than to check sample codes. The whole documentation of every single control is available at https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/#/api and is divided into several libraries. Although from the technical perspective, all the libraries are written in the same language and should be compatible, there are few strong recommendations regarding using them together, and violating them may...