Chapter 7. Development Options with SAP Solutions: ABAP Engine

The development environment of the SAP systems was traditionally based on a fully integrated set of development tools, functions, programming languages, and a data dictionary, grouped together under the name ABAP Workbench.

With the Internet Business Framework, the ITS, and the connectors, the development environment around SAP was quite extensive, but with SAP Web Application Server, R/3 Enterprise, and SAP NetWeaver, the options have been heavily enlarged and enhanced, with the two fundamental additions of the J2EE engine and the including of native HTML code and JavaScript with the ABAP language.

This chapter provides an overview of all the possibilities for development of SAP ...

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