ABAP Objects: Application Development from Scratch

ABAP's object-oriented concepts let you develop flexible, self-contained software, completely independent of standard SAP applications. But doing so is challenging, even for experienced software architects. This book addresses this issue by showing you, in a hands-on, step-by-step manner, how to successfully navigate the development process with ABAP Objects.

First, uncover the requirements critical for designing application systems, and how to model the application object. Then, you'll benefit from expert guidance on the application system in general, including how to split an application into packages, define dependencies, and develop interfaces. Finally, with the authors' help, you'll tackle the greatest challenge of them all: implementing the application layer.

GUI programming, SAP Business Partner, and special application programming techniques are also carefully explained in detail. Complete with chapters on information acquisition and managing development projects, this comprehensive programming guide is a must for every serious ABAP developer.

Highlights:

• Designing Application Systems
• Modeling Application Objects
• Classes, Interfaces, and Exceptions
• Application Architecture: Splitting into Packages, Definition of Dependencies, BAdIs, Publish & Subscribe Interface
• Application Layer: Customizing and SAP Workflow
• GUI Programming SAP Business Partner
• Special Application Programming Techniques: Logging Data in the Business Application Log (BAL), Parallel Processing.

Thorsten Franz is a software architect at AOK Systems GmbH. His work focuses on the development of new SAP based applications and frameworks, and on application integration.

Tobias Trapp is a software developer at AOK Systems GmbH. His areas of expertise are ABAP development and XML technologies. He is also author of the SAP PRESS book XML Data Exchange Using ABAP.