Take your SAP ABAP skills to the next level by mastering ABAP programming techniques with the help of real-world examples
Key Features
- Become adept at building interfaces and explore ABAP tools and techniques
- Discover the modern functionalities available in the latest version of ABAP
- Learn the process of creating stunning HTML5 applications using SAPUI5
Book Description
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).
What you will learn
- Create stable and error-free ABAP programs
- Leverage new ABAP concepts including object-oriented programming(OOP) and Model-View-Controller (MVC)
- Learn to add custom code to your existing SAP program
- Speed up your ABAP programs by spotting bottlenecks
- Understand techniques such as performance tuning and optimization
- Develop modern and beautiful user interfaces (UIs) in an ABAP environment
- Build multiple classes with any nesting level
Who this book is for
This book is for developers who want to learn and use ABAP skills to become an industry expert. Familiarity with object-oriented programming concepts is expected.
Table of Contents
- Creating Custom Code
- The basic structures of ABAP
- Database access in ABAP
- Import and export to document formats
- Exposing data to print forms
- ABAP and XML
- Building user interfaces
- Creating stunning UI5 interfaces
- Business Object Processing Framework
- Modification and customization techniques
- Handling exceptions in ABAP
- Testing ABAP programs
- Advanced techniques in ABAP objects
- Integrating SAP with third party systems
- Background processing of ABAP programs
- Performance and optimization of ABAP code
Paweł Grześkowiak has been passionate about programming from his early years, and since 2012 he has been a SAP technical consultant―mainly in the ABAP area. He has expertise in boosting implementations in the rail transport industry, the chemical industry, media, government administration, the wood industry, and banking. Currently, he designs extensions to SAP S4/HANA systems in ABAP and Java. He is an active member of the SAP community and a three-time SAP Inside Track conference organizer.Wojciech Ciesielski graduated from the Wroclaw University of Technology with an Engineering degree in Automation and Robotics, and he has a master's degree in Management in WSB Universities. Since then, he has been tightly connected with the SAP environment, working as an ABAP consultant. He has several years of business background in ABAP development and the use of modern technologies in business. He is experienced in working with ERP and CRM systems and integrating them with third-party solutions―from single companies to multinational corporations. He is a co-creator of innovative solutions delivered to the wide international audience of SAP events. He is currently focused on new technologies and solutions in the SAP portfolio
SAP Cloud Platform, Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence; but he is also increasing his expertise in development with other languages.Wojciech Ćwik has been a certified ABAP consultant for several years, with a specialty in mobile solutions, especially in creating interfaces between SAP and frontend solutions from Fiori and third-party platforms; he also enjoys creating architectures in SAP ERP ecosystems. He is a co-originator of an unconventional system linking new solutions from the SAP portfolio such as IoT, SAP Cloud, and SAP blockchain services.
