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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

An introduction to BOPF


BOPF is widely used in SAP standard modules (that is, transportation management, environment, and health and safety). As we mentioned in this chapter's introduction, we can also use this framework in our custom development. BOPF handles the most common development features, such as authorization control, low-level transaction handling, buffer management, provisioning of the consumer API, and business logic orchestration. It's well-integrated with a wide range of SAP components. From an interface and consumption perspective, it is integrated with SAPUI5, Classic DynPro, Web DynPro, and Gateway and Business Object Layer (BOL). From an infrastructure perspective, it is integrated with Archive Development Kit (ADK), Change Document, Application Log, BRF+, and Enterprise Search. This makes BOPF a powerful solution that every ABAP developer should know about.

Transaction

Working with BOPF can take different forms. We can expand existing objects, use standard objects in our...