Anthony Cecchini is the President of Information Technology Partners (ITP), an SAP consulting company headquartered in Pennsylvania. ITP offers comprehensive planning, resource allocation, implementation, upgrade, and training assistance to companies. Anthony has over 17 years of experience in SAP R/3 business process analysis and SAP systems integration. His areas of expertise include SAP NetWeaver integration; ALE development; RFC, BAPI, IDoc, Dialog, and Web Dynpro development; and customized Workflow development. You can reach him at [email protected].
SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP
SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP provides highly valuable innovations with SAP NW 7.02 and 7.03, they cover a wide range from language and tool enhancements to UI technologies and services, but don’t be concerned you can still rely on your existing ABAP skills and easily extend to emerging technologies like In-Memory, Cloud and Mobile.
Lets take a overview look at the key needs and innovations introduced in ABAP 7.03 for custom development.
ABAP 7.03 – Custom Development Enhancements
Lets take a overview look at the key needs and innovations introduced in ABAP 7.03 for UI (User Interface)
ABAP 7.03 – Custom Development Enhancements for UI
SAP NetWeaver Business Client 3.5 (NWBC)
New Side Panel for enriching applications without ABAP modifications
The SAP NetWeaver Business Client (NWBC) is a rich desktop client that offers a unified environment for and a single point of entry to SAP applications. It provides a solution for hosting classical dynpros (SAP GUI UIs), Web Dynpro applications, BSP pages, portal pages, and other content. You can use the SAP NWBC either with or without the portal depending on whether you want to access ABAP back ends directly or not.
The SAP NWBC also supports generic desktop functions, like drag and drop, popup windows, and so on through the utilization of the corresponding APIs. The result is an efficient, modern and attractive client environment ideally suited to the power user.
-Adds instant value to custom specific apps and 500+ SAP GUI apps in SAP Business Suite 2011
-Interoperability between ABAP Dynpro and Web applications running in NWBC Side Panel
-Contextual data from Dynpro applications can be accessed by WD ABAP, WDA Page Builder and JavaScript/HTML applications
-Enterprise Search enabling
-All active Enterprise Search connectors are automatically offered as search providers
-Central administration
The side panel in more detail
Side Panel used for Notes / Attachments
Side Panel used for Master Data Detail Information
Side Panel used for BI Analytical Content
For more information about NetWeaver ABAP AS Business Client, see SAP Note 900000.
For release restrictions, see SAP Note 1620514 (NWBC for Desktop) and SAP Note 1620576 (NWBC for HTML).
For the latest changes and updates to the documentation for SAP NetWeaver Business Client 3.5, see SAP Note 1757400.
To view the first blog in this series please click What’s New in ABAP 7.02 and 7.03 – Part 1
In the next part of this BLOG series on What’s New in ABAP 7.02 and 7.03, I will take a look at the Floor Plan Manger for Web Dynpro , The “Business Rule Framework Plus” and SAP Stream work.