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SAP Development using ABAP
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So what is ABAP development and how is it used in SAP? In its simplest terms in order to create the SAP system itself, first, a 4th GL programming language was created in C called ABAP. This stands for advanced business application programming, well the actual meaning is in German but this is the English translation.
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Once the ABAP development platform was created the SAP system was then entirely built from the ground up using it. Therefore if you are interested in development/programming within an SAP environment you need to learn ABAP. It is a fairly straight forward language to get to grips with and is basically a database language that allows you to select, change and display data using various commands and built-in tools such as ALV. Once you have a good understanding of the language you will not only be able to create new functionality for your SAP instance but also understand and change the existing code which makes up the standard vanilla SAP system.
SAP development beyond ABAP
In the early days all you had was the core SAP system which was all coded in ABAP, but in recent years SAP has been opened up to the web and allows for other languages to be integrated with ABAP in-order to select, manipulate and display data via web pages on the internet. This means you can use languages such html, JavaScript, Ajax etc alongside ABAP or even instead of ABAP in-order to create web applications in SAP.
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