This book shows advanced ABAP programmers new concepts, technologies, techniques, and functions that have been introduced to the ABAP in the last few years. Based on a single real-world example that runs throughout the book a university upgrading from SAP R/3 4.6C to SAP NetWeaver 7.0 (2004s) you ll follow along with the university s lead ABAP developer as he develops a custom course booking system. This unique approach allows readers to view the entire process of design, development, and testing right through the eyes of a developer. You ll quickly familiarize yourself with all of the new possibilities in ABAP while discovering a series of actual scenarios that could easily be encountered in a real-life project. In certain areas the authors also provide you with a glimpse towards upcoming ABAP releases, as well as references to former releases, as required.
Highlights include:
- New ABAP Workbench Capabilities
- Strings and Binary Strings in Transparent Tables
- Web Service Proxies, Exposing Web Services
- Persistent Objects, ZIP Compression, Shared Memory Objects
- ABAP Unit
- Regular Expressions
- Web Dynpro ABAP, Web Dynpro Debugger View
- SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe, Business Server Pages, AJAX
- Visual Composer, Portal Eventing, SAP NetWeaver Business Client