Sunday 13 October 2013

SAP ABAP - Introduction

ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is a high-level programming language created by the German software company SAP in 1980s. It is one of the many application-specific fourth-generation languages
It was originally the report language for SAP R/3, a platform that enabled large corporations to build business applications for easy of their business.

Features of ABAP
  • The language is case-insensitiveand each statement terminates with a period.
  • It programming language used to develop programs (Reports, Function modules) on the SAP R/3 client-server platform.
  • It is used by the SAP customers to develop their custom reports and interfaces with ABAP programming
  • The language is easy to learn for programmers, Knowledge of relational database (RDBMS) is necessary to create ABAP programs
  • Also Knowledge of object-oriented concepts is necessary to explore advanced concept, Since SAP released an object-oriented extension to ABAP along with release 4.6.
  • ABAP was one of the first languages to include the concept of Logical Databases (LDBs), which provides a high level of abstraction from the basic database level(s).
  • Most of the SAP R/3 basic application and functionalities are developed using ABAP

Advantages of SAP
  • SAP supports various database in back end
  • Platform Independent
  • Supports multiple languages
  • Faster between network

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