With Netweaver providing DB schema for seperately for Java ,the possibilities are immense for customers to develop new applications in web enabled scenarios totally using Java or .net,avoiding Abap altogether if they want.
The old BAPI route is not the only route anymore into SAP.
I am an old Abapper, new to Netweaver I am still trying to grasp at the entire platform -technologies that come with Netweaver(like someone studying water lilies by Monet 😊 each day it looks more interesting than before).
But my basic question is will the core software suite of SAP currently existing only in ABAP form (including BAPis) going to transform slowly into non ABAP version also?
Example will core SAP programs that is sales order ,MRP run will be avialable in Java some day?
Simply put will SAP exist without ABAP in totality?
Or will SAP choose best of both worlds -its own ABAP world developed over years along with the product itself and the O-O as we know from Java,.Net.
On same line of thought,is ABAP as business language for SAP will be replaced slowly-outside-in model?
I welcome some light on my queries.
-Shankar T S.
Greetings, The Web AS is the foundation on which SAP NetWeaver is built and drives all of SAP's applications and tools. SAP Web AS supports Java code that meets the J2EE 1.3 specification and ABAP code, which is SAP's language for business applications. ABAP will not go away as SAP Web AS allows you to get more value out of the ABAP applications (SAP R/3, mySAP Business Suite) that you already have in place. You can also now easily extend the functionality of those and other systems by using Java. By combining ABAP and Java, SAP Web AS provides a single environment in which to work with applications, regardless of what language they were written in. This saves time, money and effort for developers. Hope this information helps.
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