What is ABAP – Advanced Business Application Programming?

10 Oct, 2011ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning, SAP

ABAP is a propriatary ”COBAL Like” 4GL  programming language developed for developing solutions within SAP Application Server as well as Netweaver.  JAVA and C++ are also commonly used to develop, customise, and extend the SAP platform.

ABAP was originally used on the SAP R/3 platform primarily as a report writing language.  Customers have used it to extend the functionality of the SAP sytems, and it has evoved into a more robust system over the years. 

 SAP ABAP run within the SAP database and are not kept as separate files in the way that JAVA or C based applications are. 

ABAP is part of the SAP BASIS abstraction layer that supports the full range of SAP applications.

 ABAP programs generally fall into two types:

  • ABAP Reports
  • ABAP Module Pools

ABAP developers work within the ABAP Workbench development environment for coding and debugging.

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