ABAP 7.4 - What's New?

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ABAP 7.4 – What’s New?
Lesson 1
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Course Agenda: ABAP 7.4 What’s new?
What Will Be Covered In This Course:
1. Lesson 1 - Overview & General Information
a) ABAP 7.4 - Source Code Samples
b) ABAP Language
c) ABAP Doc
2. Lesson 2 - New ABAP Development Tools e.g. in Eclipse (ADT / CDS)
3. Lesson 3 - New ABAP Syntax & Development
a) Syntax: New great syntax options
b) Compliance: Advance Online Documentation with ABAP 7.4
4. Lesson 4 - Using Persistence Classes
* Please contact us for additional course details
regarding lessons 2 – 4 & their schedules.*

SP02, SP05, ...
ABAP 7.40
ABAP 7.31
ABAP 7.02
ABAP 7.01
Overview of ABAP “evolution”
ABAP 7.3
ABAP 7.2
ABAP 7.1/7.11
ABAP 7.0
ABAP 8.0x
ABAP for HANA
(downward compatible)
AS ABAP for NGAP
(not downward compatible)ABAP for ERP
(downward compatible)
Development
No Development
Backport

Netweaver as ABAP 7.4
End-user
LoB
(Line-of-Business)
DeveloperAdministrator
CIO
(Chief Information
Officer)
 Business in real-time
 Low Transportation
cross-docking (TCD)
& Total cost of
ownership (TCO)
 Future-proof
 Non disruptive
 Lifecycle Management
 Scalable landscapes
 Efficient operations
 Simplified & integrated
 Desktop & mobile devices
 Accelerate reports/selections
 Intuitive value helps
 New application scenarios
 Flexible business processes
 Decoupling of Line-of-Business
extensions & IT
 Build on existing ABAP skills &
know-how
 Integrate developer experience:
• ABAP
• HANA
• SAPUI5
• Netweaer Cloud
Netweaver As ABAP 7.4

Netweaver as ABAP 7.4
 Transportation Cross-Docking (TCD) supports transportation of
handling units (HUs) across various warehouses or distribution
centers, until the final destination.
 Examples: Change means of transportation/Centrally process export activities, etc.
 Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is a type of calculation designed to
help enterprise managers & consumers assess direct & indirect costs
& benefits related to the purchase of IT components.

HANA Open Item Analytics
 The latest 7.4 release of SAP Netweaver ABAP is optimized for SAP HANA.
 SAP HANA text search allows for fault-tolerant value helps (1)
 ALV w/ integrated data search allows for large data set navigation (2)
 Advanced SAP HANA capabilities provide an analytical side-panel (3)
 Pushing operations to SAP HANA allows for accelerated data access (4)
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2
3
4

Real-time Analysis w/ Embedded Analytics
 Netweaver Business Warehouse (BW) w/ HANA allows for Insight-to-
action applications.
 Business Intelligence (BI) is a technology-driven data analysis process that boosts
business performance by assisting end users in making informed decisions.
 Functionality to navigate & drill further into BI Tools information
 Crystal Reports & Dashboards
 Allows users to access BI document-related data in SAP
 Reuse transactional HANA models w/ BW InfoProviders
 Operates on transactional Open Items data
 Users can now:
 Expose analyses w/ Business Explorer (BEx) Queries
 Includes tools to present reports to end users
 Analyzer, Query Designer, Web Application Designer, etc.
 Modify & enhance information exposed by HANA models
 Launch internet URLs

Eclipse Development Environment
http://scn.sap.com/community/abap/eclipse
 Eclipse - Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
 One single IDE to develop ABAP, HANA, SAPUI5, HANA Cloud & Mobile
 Contains base workspace & plug-in system for customization
 One central update site for all Eclipse-based SAP development tools
 High developer productivity & easy integration of custom 3rd party tools
 Written mostly in Java & used to develop applications
 Plug-ins allow application development in other programming languages
 Superior ABAP development toolset
 Built-in ABAP on HANA Development Tools Software Development Kit (SDK)
 Advanced source code editing (search & navigation)
 Testing, quality assurance & troubleshooting
 User Interface tools
 Web Dynpro & Floorplan Manager (FPM)

Bridging the “on-premise” World & Cloud
 Extend ABAP connectivity w/ SAP HANA Cloud
 Integrate ABAP applications w/ HANA Cloud through SAP PI, or directly
 Automated secure/remote setup of connections across multiple systems
 Reduced development costs & risks
 Open Data Protocol (OData) is a RESTful data access protocol initially defined
by Microsoft & provides mobile support.
 Enables creation/consumption of REST APIs, which allow resources, identified using URLs and
defined in data models, to be published/edited by web clients using HTTP messages.
 Interactive & collaborative scenarios based on event-driven user interfaces (UI)
 ABAP Messaging & Push Channels
 Connect based on open standards & robust scenarios
 Provides optimal hybrid on-premise & cloud scenario support
 On-Demand Systems & Single Sign-On across on-premise
 Connectivity type agnostic ABAP development in Eclipse
HANA®

Mobile Access
 Proven UI technology & mobility w/ Netweaver Gateway, HANA & SAPUI5
 Develop mobile apps w/ Gateway & SAPUI5 (HTML5 standard)
 Popular platforms - Apple iOS, Google Android, Amazon, Microsoft Windows Phone 8, etc.
 Simplify & refresh Dynpros w/ UI Personas
 Netweaver Business Client (NWBC) & Floorplan Manager (FPM) w/
WebDynpro for ABAP (WDA) enhancements
 Corbu Design/Enhanced search/Tabbed browsing/GUIBB dynamic configuration
 NWBC
 Side panel analytical content decision support
 SAP Theme Designer
 Provides corporate theming & branding
 ABAP Messaging & Push Channels
 Collaborative scenarios based on event-driven UIs

Decoupling Business & IT
 SAP Business Suite applications allow you to centrally manage
decision-making logic across SAP & non-SAP applications.
 Automated business decisions
 Based on Floorplan Manager technology
 Decisions deployed w/out downtime
 Extension of Business Rule Framework
 (BRFplus) as Netweaver Add-on
 Access to “local” modeling manage systems
 Upgrade independently of managed systems
 More than 500 pre-configured side-panel chips available
 Analyze & optimize implement cycles via domain experts
 Compile executable services from modeled services
 On managed system for local execution

Lifecycle Management
 Common Lifecycle Management for ABAP & HANA
 Technical configuration automated after system installation
 Allows for Change and Transport System (CTS) transports
of combined ABAP & HANA content
 Software Update Manager (SUM)
 Near zero downtime maintenance
 Reduced manual efforts
 Enable SAP HANA & ABAP
 Database migration option
Source Code
Management
Landscape
Management
Software
Update
Management
(SUM)
Configuration
Transport
Management
Production
Consolidation
Development

Time to Value With ABAP Cloud
 Faster time to value w/ ABAP Cloud
 Almost instant access to preconfigured SAP Netweaver AS ABAP 7.4
 SAP Cloud Appliance Library (CAL) allows for simplified provisioning
 Log on  Pick & deploy solution  Access
 Now offering ABAP Cloud accounts – ask us for further information and access:
 Fast access to preconfigured AS ABAP releases
 Tutorials, sample scenarios & best practices
 Integrated Eclipse development
ABAP®
Cloud

Security
 Run ABAP applications in high security environments
 Secure SAP HANA & Business Suite platforms
 Create ABAP & HANA users w/ one tool in one step
 SAP Transaction Code “SU01” can be used for user management in HANA w/ ABAP
 Latest security & development standards
 OAuth 2.0 allows for new authentication options
 Read-Access Logging
SECURITY

Go Social
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_StreamWork
 SAP Jam is a business function & social collaboration platform that
integrates using the Social Media ABAP Integration Library (SAIL).
 SAIL is an API library used by various ABAP SAP functions
 Integration w/ SAIL previously available in SAP CRM, SLC & ERP HCM
 Easy migration from SAP Streamwork to Jam
 Jam NWBC Side Panel CHIPS allow for collaboration w/out modification
 Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) now process application developments
 APIs are easy-to-use & based on ABAP Objects
 Authentication implicit from SAP ABAP systems
 Send Netweaver Gateway notifications to Jam
 Discuss business transactions & exchange data
 Combine social media w/ business software

Real-time Business
 Accelerate your business processes & extend return on
investment on existing investments.
 User-friendly (mobility & easy collaboration)
 Allows for highly productive development environment
 New business scenarios allow for competitive advantage
 Enjoy the full potential of business data & make wiser decisions
 Cloud allows for leveraging on-premise investments

ABAP Language
http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/Snippets/JSON+and+ABAP
 ABAP 7.4 contains modern declarative & functional ABAP language
 ABAP Syntax is more expression-oriented
 Better readability of code & open standards for data interchange
 More streamlined & elegant
 Improved performance w/ extended Database Buffer
 JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Support
 Language independent text format that uses conventions of C-family languages
 Easy for humans to read & write / easy for machines to generate & parse
 Lightweight data-interchange format
 Based on JavaScript Programming Language

ABAP Doc
 ABAP Doc is a simple documentation tool similar to Javadoc.
 Allows documentation in HTML format to be created automatically from ABAP source code
 Based on unique ABAP Doc comments
 Javadoc is a documentation generator from Oracle Corporation.
 Generates API documentation in HTML format from Java source code
 HTML format allows for convenience of hyperlinking related documents together
 “Doc comments” format is the standard for documenting Java classes
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/javadocs

 An exclamation mark (!) is used to introduce a comment for ABAP Doc.
 ABAP Doc comments must be linked to only one declaration statement
 A line or a block of lines
ABAP Doc

 Special syntax for parameter interface of events & procedures is used.
ABAP Doc

 HTML Tags subsets can be used for formatting.
 ABAP Doc syntax rules are checked via the ABAP syntax check.
ABAP Doc

 ABAP Doc comments are evaluated in the ABAP Editor of the ABAP
Development Tools (ADT / ABAP in Eclipse not in ABAP Editor of SAP GUI SE80)
 Formatted documentation is displayed in a pop-up window
 Place cursor on item documented (here the interface definition) by ABAP Doc
comments & click F2
ABAP Doc

 ABAP Doc overwrites existing
classical class or method
documentation:
 Before using ABAP Doc,
verify if documentation already
exists & is usable
 Currently, unable to integrate example
programs into ABAP Doc
 No migration tool currently available
 ABAP Doc evaluated in ADT only.
 Ensure users of APIs work only in ADT
 Using the GUI, users will see comments
w/out formatted documents
ABAP Doc

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roll-out of SAP Logistics applications (SAP LE / LO)
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Management Consulting, LLC. He is holding a Master’s
degree in Information Technology and is an experienced IT
solution architect and project lead.
His strong background in adapting to requirements and
standards in different industries and on various platforms are
valuable assets for Blackvard customers.
He is repeatedly commended by customers for driving
efficient solutions for complex problems in globally
distributed team environments and meeting tough deadlines.
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