Mastering SAP ABAP: A complete guide to developing fast, durable, and maintainable ABAP programs in SAP

Take your SAP ABAP skills to the next level by mastering ABAP programming techniques with the help of real-world examples

Key Features
Become adept at building interfaces and explore ABAP tools and techniques
Discover the modern functionalities available in the latest version of ABAP
Learn the process of creating stunning HTML5 applications using SAPUI5
Book Description
Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) is an established and complex programming language in the IT industry. This book is designed to help you use the latest ABAP techniques and apply legacy constructions using practical examples.

You'll start with a quick refresher on language and database concepts, followed by agile techniques for adding custom code to a modern ABAP system. After this, you will get up to speed with the complete ABAP toolset for importing data to and from different environments. Next, you'll learn how to print forms and work with the different ABAP tools for Extensible Markup Language (XML) manipulation. While covering further chapters, you'll gain insights into building stunning UI5 interfaces, in addition to learning how to develop simple apps using the Business Object Processing Framework (BOPF). You will also pick up the technique of handling exceptions and performing testing in ABAP. In the concluding chapters, you can look forward to grasping various techniques for optimizing the performance of programs using a variety of performance analysis tools.

By the end of this book, you will have the expertise you need to confidently build maintainable programs in Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP).

What you will learn
Create stable and error-free ABAP programs
Leverage new ABAP concepts including object-oriented programming(OOP) and Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Learn to add custom code to your existing SAP program
Speed up your ABAP programs by spotting bottlenecks
Understand techniques such as performance tuning and optimization
Develop modern and beautiful user interfaces (UIs) in an ABAP environment
Build multiple classes with any nesting level
Who this book is for
This book is for developers who want to learn and use ABAP skills to become an industry expert. Familiarity with object-oriented programming concepts is expected.

Table of Contents
Creating Custom Code
The basic structures of ABAP
Database access in ABAP
Import and export to document formats
Exposing data to print forms
ABAP and XML
Building user interfaces
Creating stunning UI5 interfaces
Business Object Processing Framework
Modification and customization techniques
Handling exceptions in ABAP
Testing ABAP programs
Advanced techniques in ABAP objects
Integrating SAP with third party systems
Background processing of ABAP programs
Performance and optimization of ABAP code