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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