Product Description

With Advanced ABAP/4 Programming for SAP, the thousands of new ABAP/4 programmers will learn the latest techniques for developing custom applications using SAP's R/3 system and the Internet. Real-world examples, source code, and professional advice from the experienced authors enhance and support each topic. Advanced ABAP/4 Programming for SAP also includes step-by-step instructions for developing applications with ABAP/4 Modular programming and everything you need to know for developing Internet applications with SAP's Internet Transaction Server. This direct and easy-to-read book is the follow up to the authors' successful Introduction to ABAP/4 Programming for SAP.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #929112 in Books
• Published on: 1999-07-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 402 pages

Amazon.com Review
Advanced ABAP Programming for SAP covers the more difficult aspects of ABAP, the customization and reporting language built into SAP R/3. This book assumes a basic familiarity with the ABAP language (formerly known as ABAP/4) and builds upon it, exposing the reader to ABAP's considerable customization and transaction-handling power along the way.

Here you'll find lots of prose to back up the code. Typically, the authors (three SAP consultants) introduce a subject with an explanation and then present a short program that illustrates the concept in its simplest case. From there, they provide the reader with code and prose that address variations on the standard case.

The authors also emphasize procedures where appropriate. In their coverage of creating a domain in the Data Dictionary, for example, they provide a step-by-step procedure with screen shots from the SAP environment. The result: Advanced ABAP represents a good tutorial for those wanting to expand their ABAP skills beyond the essentials. Back it up with a reference and you'll be ready to tackle complex assignments. --David Wall

Topics covered: Graphical user interface (GUI) elements, Function Modules, Business APIs (BAPIs), data, tables, views, transactions, and transaction processing (includes information on the Screen Painter, the Menu Painter, screen loops, and locking strategies).

Customer Reviews

An average DDIC book, but a poor advanced programming course
I bought this book based on the comments I read, but I was so disapointed in this book. It is an average book to learn about DDIC definitions, and a poor book about advanced programming. Most sections are about defining DDIC elements, but there are two chapters about advanced techniques and performance tips. Altough this sounds good, there is no depth in those subjects. Advanced techniques in the book are about locks and updates. The peformance tips take a whole 12 pages and are very superficial. How about a chapter on debugging and tracing, analyses of buffers, etc... That is advanced programming. I got more information about advanced programming through the SAP ABAPDOCU help than I got in this book. I wished this book would have been available at the store so that I could have browsed it, because I would have definitively not bought it. Print the SAP help documentation for DDIC and for ABAPDOCU, and you will get more information than you would find in this book. If you are a serious ABAP programmer with a few years experience, stay away from this book.

Useful on the front lines...
I was a bit skeptical about a book promising to explain advanced ABAP. In fact, the concepts are not advanced but sort of intermediate, so very experienced programmers might not find it useful. However, if you are at that level, the book is very helpful. I completed a programming project, writing a transaction, complete with GUIs, etc. (and all that for the first time)in less time than expected and relying primarily on the book as a reference. Clearly written. The authors should help out SAP with some of their convoluted online help! Well worth the $s (or DMs as the case may be).

Very Good
I am an SAP consultant with over 4 years of ABAP consulting experience. I ordered this book long before it went into print. So, I could not wait for it to read when it finally arrived! The authors have covered advanced ABAP features in a simple way with lot of illustrations and examples. This book has saved me a lot of time as how to exploit the ABAP workbench to its maximum potential.