What is Sap Abap

The development of workbench gives access to SAP's development tools. Any program developed in ABAP is stored in the R/3 repository. Definitions of variables and parameters on the other hand are stored in the data dictionary. ABAP programmers use the development workbench to write programs in SAP. ABAP is similar to many other programming languages.

ABAP/4 Programming

ABAP 4 is the programming language used to code SAP R/3. The full form of ABAP is Advanced Business Application Programming. There are three main components of the ABAP 4 language. These are -

1. ABAP 4 Development Workbench
2. ABAP 4 Data Dictionary
3. ABAP 4 Repository Information

The development of workbench gives access to SAP's development tools. Any program developed in ABAP is stored in the R/3 repository. Definitions of variables and parameters on the other hand are stored in the data dictionary. ABAP programmers use the development workbench to write programs in SAP. ABAP is similar to many other programming languages. It consists of Source Code, Text elements, and Attributes. As part of the ABAP 4 syntax, certain rules apply to write the ABAP code.

It consists of the following applications/submodules/screens:

1. ABAP Workbench
2. Menu Painter
3. Screen Painter
4. Data Dictionary
5. SAP Script
6. Business Workflow (BC - WF)
7. ALE
8. EDI
9. Business Connector
10. Business Server Pages
11. Internet Application Server
12. Mercator Report Painter
13. ALV reporting
14. Report writer
15. Dialog Programming
16. Repository Information System
17. ABAP 00
18. IDOCS
19. LSMW
20. Smartforms
21. EBP
22. ASAP methodology
23. ABAP Query