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Title: SAP ABAP Post by: Taruna on October 14, 2006, 11:59:07 PM SAP ABAP
ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is a powerful programming language created specifically for developing SAP applications.ABAP was intended to be used by end users so that they could manipulate the data themselves, but the 4GL turned out to be too complex for ordinary users. High-level programming skills are still required to create ABAP programs. ABAP remains the language for creating programs for the client-server R/3 system, which SAP first released in 1992. As computer hardware evolved through the 1990s, more and more of SAP's applications and systems were written in ABAP. By 2001, all but the most basic functions were written in ABAP. In 1999, SAP released an object-oriented extension to ABAP called ABAP Objects, along with R/3 release 4.5. SAP's most recent development platform, NetWeaver, supports both ABAP and Java. |