Next Generation ABAP Development

Rich Heilman is a senior technical specialist with the EPM RIG at SAP Labs, LLC. Rich joined SAP in 2007 and had the opportunity to contribute to the development of the SAP Business Planning & Consolidation version for the SAP NetWeaver product. He then transitioned into a solution management role in 2008, and finally joined the RIG at the end of 2009. Before joining SAP, Rich worked for an SAP customer. Rich transitioned from RPGIV on the AS/400 into ABAP when the company decided to implement SAP R/3 4.6c in 2001. He was involved in many projects, developing custom ABAP and Java applications to satisfy business requirements. For the past several years, he has presented at the annual ASUG Spring Conference and the SAP TechEd Conference. He is also one of the top contributors on SDN, spending much of his time answering questions in the ABAP forums. Thomas Jung is a solution architect on the SAP Technology Solution Management team, focusing on the SAP custom development tools, particularly as they apply to ABAP development or user interface technology. He is a frequent presenter at SAP events and can often be found on SDN. Before joining SAP Labs in 2006, Thomas was an applications developer for an SAP customer. He was involved in SAP implementations as an ABAP developer for almost 10 years.

1. Workbench Tools and Package Hierarchy ... 23 ... 1.1 Log on and Explore ... 24 ... 1.2 Package Hierarchy for the Project ... 39 2. Data Dictionary Objects ... 43 ... 2.1 Designing Data Relationships ... 43 ... 2.2 Data Dictionary Fixed Value Domains ... 47 ... 2.3 Data Dictionary Text Tables ... 49 ... 2.4 Data Dictionary Data Tables ... 61 ... 2.5 Search Helps ... 66 3. Data Persistence Layer ... 71 ... 3.1 Persistent Objects ... 72 ... 3.2 Exception Classes ... 82 ... 3.3 Business Object Classes ... 89 ... 3.4 Data Load Programs ... 107 4. Consuming a Web Service ... 119 ... 4.1 Proxy Generation ... 121 ... 4.2 Logical Ports ... 130 ... 4.3 Extended Protocols ... 140 5. Shared Memory Objects ... 143 ... 5.1 Getting Started ... 144 ... 5.2 Automatic Preloading ... 155 ... 5.3 Implementing into the Business Object Layer ... 157 6. Model Class ... 163 ... 6.1 Class Overview ... 163 ... 6.2 Transactional Methods ... 168 ... 6.3 Utility Methods ... 175 ... 6.4 Emailing ... 177 ... 6.5 Regular Expressions ... 189 7. ABAP and SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management ... 193 ... 7.1 What Is Master Data Management? ... 194 ... 7.2 Configuring the SAP MDM ABAP API ... 201 ... 7.3 Coding with the MDM ABAP API ... 206 8. ABAP Unit ... 221 ... 8.1 Overview of ABAP Unit Tests ... 221 ... 8.2 Creating ABAP Unit Tests ... 227 ... 8.3 Executing the ABAP Unit Test ... 232 9. Exposing a Model as a Web Service ... 235 ... 9.1 Web Service Definition ... 235 ... 9.2 Testing the Web Service ... 243 10. Exposing a Model as a Web Service Using SAP NetWeaver Process Integration ... 249 ... 10.1 Modeling a Service in SAP NetWeaver Process Integration ... 250 ... 10.2 Implementing the Service as a Server Proxy ... 264 ... 10.3 Creating a Service Definition ... 270 11. Classic Dynpro UI/ALV Object Model ... 273 ... 11.1 ALV Object Model Overview ... 273 ... 11.2 Getting Started ... 276 ... 11.3 Modifying the ALV Output ... 281 ... 11.4 Making the ALV Interactive ... 287 ... 11.5 Object Orientiation with Classic Dynpro ... 294 12. Web Dynpro ABAP ... 303 ... 12.1 Overview of the Components ... 304 ... 12.2 Component Usage ... 309 ... 12.3 General UI Features ... 311 ... 12.4 ALV Component ... 320 ... 12.5 Dialog Popup Window ... 325 ... 12.6 Table Popins ... 332 ... 12.7 File Upload/Download ... 336 ... 12.8 Web Dynpro Debugger ... 341 13. Business Server Pages ... 345 ... 13.1 Internet Facing BSP Application ... 346 ... 13.2 BSP Extensions ... 363 14. Adobe Forms ... 375 ... 14.1 Infrastructure and Setup ... 376 ... 14.2 Function Module Based Forms ... 381 ... 14.3 Web Dynpro Based Forms ... 395 ... 14.4 Offline Forms ... 402 15. SAP NetWeaver Portal ... 407 ... 15.1 Creating a System Configuration ... 407 ... 15.2 Creating Portal Content ... 416 ... 15.3 Portal Eventing ... 424 ... 15.4 SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer ... 429 ... 15.5 SAP NetWeaver Business Client ... 443 16. RSS Feed Using an ICF Service Node ... 449 ... 16.1 What Is an ICF Service Node? ... 450 ... 16.2 Handler RSS Feed ... 451 17. Closing ... 465 A. Code Samples ... 469 B. The Authors ... 473