This completely new third edition of our best-selling ABAP book provides detailed coverage of ABAP programming with SAP NetWeaver. This outstanding compendium treats all concepts of modern ABAP up to release 7.0. New topics include ABAP and Unicode, Shared Objects, exception handling, Web Dynpro for ABAP, Object Services, and of course ABAP and XML. Bonus: All readers will receive the SAP NetWeaver 2004s ABAP Trial Version ("Mini-SAP") on DVD.
Highlights include:
- SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP
- Development basics: ABAP Workbench, Object Navigator, Class Builder, etc.
- Basic elements of ABAP Objects
- Classic modularisation and program execution
- Avoiding errors and error handling
- GUI programming: dynpros, lists, selection screens, controls, and Web Dynpro
- Persistent data: DB access, Object Services, file interface, data clusters
- Dynamic programming: field symbols, RTTS, dynamic tokens, and procedure calls
- Data und communication interfaces: RFC, ICF, web services, XML
