ABAP Objects - Book(s)

[Former Member]

Hi there,

I am looking for a good book on ABAP Objects for a beginner in OOPS. Can you pls suggest a couple of good books?

Appreciate your help.

Thanks,

Hitesh

[Former Member]

Hi Hitesh,

Check the book by Horst Keller.

http://www.sappressbooks.com/downloads/h958_preview.pdf

Also check <b>"ABAP Objects: Introduction to Programming SAP Applications" by Horst Keller (Author), Sascha Kruger (Author)</b>

You can also see SAP Library and transaction ABAPDOCU for example programs on ABAP Objects.

Check following links also.

http://esnips.com/doc/5c65b0dd-eddf-4512-8e32-ecd26735f0f2/prefinalppt.ppt

http://esnips.com/doc/2c76dc57-e74a-4539-a20e-29383317e804/OO-abap.pdf

http://esnips.com/doc/0ef39d4b-586a-4637-abbb-e4f69d2d9307/SAP-CONTROLS-WORKSHOP.pdf

http://esnips.com/doc/92be4457-1b6e-4061-92e5-8e4b3a6e3239/Object-Oriented-ABAP.ppt

Send me your mail ID. I will pass u a useful ppt.

Award points if found useful.

Regards

Indrajit

[Former Member]

Hi Indrajit,

Thanks for the quick reply. I actually came across this book y'day on the sap press. But the confusion was: there is another book from this author (see below link)

http://books.google.com/books?id=vyQyAAAACAAJ&dq=abapobjectsbook

so the questions are:

- which one of this is better?

- arent there any other authours for this topic? or is this author "the best"?

Have you personally read any of these books?

Thanks,

Hitesh

[Former Member]

Hi Hitesh,

The first book by Horst Keller whose pdf link i have mentioned is the best according to me. But any of his other books are also fine because Horst really expalins well in his books. Start of with the PDF and take referenece from other sources i have mentioened and please make sure you are using SDN - because nothing can be better than SDN as far as SAP is concerned.

Award points if found useful.

Regards

Indrajit

[Former Member]

I would think that it makes sense to go for the latest version, which released in May. You can catch the author, Horst, talk abt it in this <a href="/people/horst.keller/blog/2007/05/06/finally-shipping. There is a contact email in the comments - maybe you could contact him directly with further questions?

Sudha

[Former Member]

Hi Indrajeet,

As mentioned in your reply below, can you pls send me the ppt that you are referring to ? email: hiteshbhansali@yahoo.com

Thanks a lot,

hitesh

[Former Member]

Hi,

Abap Objects

Introduction to Programming Sap Applications

Author : Horst Keller et Sascha Kruger

Thanks,

Anitha

[Former Member]

Hitesh,

OO ABAP is nothing but a class-method apprach to write ABAP codes and define them : below are few of the

informations which will be of help for a newbie :

Types of attributes and the basic concepts :

Public attributes

Private attributes

Instance attributes

Static attributes

Public methods

Private methods

Constructor method

Static constructor

Protected components

Polymorphism

Public attributes

Public attributes are defined in the PUBLIC section and can be viewed and changed from outside the class.

There is direct access to public attributes. As a general rule, as few public attributes should be defined

as possible.

PUBLIC SECTION.

DATA: Counter type i.

Private attributes

Private attributes are defined in the PRIVATE section. The can only be viewes and changed from within the

class. There is no direct access from outside the class.

PRIVATE SECTION.

DATA: name(25) TYPE c,

planetype LIKE saplane-planetyp,

Instance attributes

There exist one instance attribute for each instance of the class, thus they exist seperately for each

object. Instance attributes are declared with the DATA keyword.

Static attributes

Static attributes exist only once for each class. The data are the same for all instances of the class, and

can be used e.g. for instance counters. Static attributes are defined with the keyword CLASS-DATA.

PRIVATE SECTION.

CLASS-DATA: counter type i,

Public methods

Can called from outside the class

PUBLIC SECTION.

METHODS: set_attributes IMPORTING p_name(25) TYPE c,

p_planetype LIKE saplane-planetyp,

Private methods

Can only be called from inside the class. They are placed in the PRIVATE section of the class.

Constructor method

Implicitly, each class has an instance constructor method with the reserved name constructor and a static

constructor method with the reserved name class_constructor.

The instance constructor is executed each time you create an object (instance) with the CREATE OBJECT

statement, while the class constructor is executed exactly once before you first access a class.

The constructors are always present. However, to implement a constructor you must declare it explicitly

with the METHODS or CLASS-METHODS statements. An instance constructor can have IMPORTING parameters and

exceptions. You must pass all non-optional parameters when creating an object. Static constructors have no

parameters.

Static constructor

The static constructor is always called CLASS_CONSTRUCTER, and is called autmatically before the clas is

first accessed, that is before any of the following actions are executed:

Creating an instance using CREATE_OBJECT

Adressing a static attribute using <classname>->

Calling a ststic attribute using CALL METHOD

Registering a static event handler

Registering an evetm handler method for a static event

The static constructor cannot be called explicitly.

Protected components

When we are talking subclassing and enheritance there is one more component than Public and Private, the

Protected component. Protected components can be used by the superclass and all of the subclasses. Note

that Subclasses cannot access Private components.

Polymorphism

Polymorphism: When the same method is implemented differently in different classes. This can be done using

enheritance, by redefining a method from the superclass in subclasses and implement it differently.

follow this link ABAP OBJECTS with good examples.......

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/ce/b518b6513611d194a50000e8353423/content.htm

check the below links lot of info and examples r there

http://www.sapgenie.com/abap/OO/index.htm

http://www.geocities.com/victorav15/sapr3/abap_ood.html

http://www.brabandt.de/html/abap_oo.html

Check this cool weblog:

/people/thomas.jung3/blog/2004/12/08/abap-persistent-classes-coding-without-sql

/people/thomas.jung3/blog/2004/12/08/abap-persistent-classes-coding-without-sql

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/c3/225b6254f411d194a60000e8353423/frameset.htm

http://www.sapgenie.com/abap/OO/

http://www.sapgenie.com/abap/OO/index.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/c3/225b5654f411d194a60000e8353423/content.htm

http://www.esnips.com/doc/375fff1b-5a62-444d-8ec1-55508c308b17/prefinalppt.ppt

http://www.esnips.com/doc/2c76dc57-e74a-4539-a20e-29383317e804/OO-abap.pdf

http://www.esnips.com/doc/5c65b0dd-eddf-4512-8e32-ecd26735f0f2/prefinalppt.ppt

http://www.allsaplinks.com/

http://www.sap-img.com/

http://www.sapgenie.com/

http://help.sap.com

http://www.sapgenie.com/abap/OO/

http://www.sapgenie.com/abap/OO/index.htm

http://www.sapgenie.com/abap/controls/index.htm

http://www.esnips.com/doc/2c76dc57-e74a-4539-a20e-29383317e804/OO-abap.pdf

http://www.esnips.com/doc/0ef39d4b-586a-4637-abbb-e4f69d2d9307/SAP-CONTROLS-WORKSHOP.pdf

http://www.sapgenie.com/abap/OO/index.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/ce/b518b6513611d194a50000e8353423/frameset.htm

http://www.sapgenie.com/abap/OO/

these links

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/ce/b518b6513611d194a50000e8353423/content.htm

For funtion module to class

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/c3/225b5954f411d194a60000e8353423/content.htm

for classes

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/c3/225b5c54f411d194a60000e8353423/content.htm

for methods

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/08/d27c03b81011d194f60000e8353423/content.htm

for inheritance

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/dd/4049c40f4611d3b9380000e8353423/content.htm

for interfaces

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/c3/225b6254f411d194a60000e8353423/content.htm

For Materials:

1) http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/BCABA/BCABA.pdf -- Page no: 1291

2) http://esnips.com/doc/5c65b0dd-eddf-4512-8e32-ecd26735f0f2/prefinalppt.ppt

3) http://esnips.com/doc/2c76dc57-e74a-4539-a20e-29383317e804/OO-abap.pdf

4) http://esnips.com/doc/0ef39d4b-586a-4637-abbb-e4f69d2d9307/SAP-CONTROLS-WORKSHOP.pdf

5) http://esnips.com/doc/92be4457-1b6e-4061-92e5-8e4b3a6e3239/Object-Oriented-ABAP.ppt

6) http://esnips.com/doc/448e8302-68b1-4046-9fef-8fa8808caee0/abap-objects-by-helen.pdf

7) http://esnips.com/doc/39fdc647-1aed-4b40-a476-4d3042b6ec28/class_builder.ppt

😎 http://www.amazon.com/gp/explorer/0201750805/2/ref=pd_lpo_ase/102-9378020-8749710?ie=UTF8

1) http://www.erpgenie.com/sap/abap/OO/index.htm

2) http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/ce/b518b6513611d194a50000e8353423/frameset.htm

these are the links

Check this for basic concepts of OOPS

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/webas/abap/abap%20...

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/webas/abap/abap%20...

Tabstrip

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/webas/abap/abap%20...

Editable ALV

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/webas/abap/abap%20...

Tree

http://www.sapdevelopment.co.uk/reporting/alv/alvtree/alvtree_usrint.htm

General Tutorial for OOPS

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/webas/abap/an%20ea...

http://www.sapdevelopment.co.uk/reporting/alvhome.htm

http://www.sap-img.com/abap/what-is-alv-programming.htm

http://www.sap-img.com/abap-function.htm

http://www.geocities.com/mpioud/Abap_programs.html

http://www.sapdevelopment.co.uk/reporting/alv/alvtree%5Calvtree_basic.htm

http://esnips.com/doc/ad20dca9-6182-4903-8d8f-96a66dc8590c/ALV.pdf

http://www.sap-img.com/abap-function.htm

Classical ALV:

http://www.geocities.com/mpioud/Abap_programs.html

OOPS ALV:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e8a1d690-0201-0010-b7ad-d9719a41...

Regards,

Satish

[matt]

Hi Hitesh

I think ABAP is a difficult language in which to learn OO techniques and principles. Java is a much better language to learn such things.

I programmed classic ABAP for many years, then did the ABAP Objects course, but still couldn't really get to grips with OO programming. So, I bought "Head First Java" from O'Reilly Press, the only "teach-yourself" book I've ever worked all the way through, and learned OO programming using Java.

I then took the techniques I'd learned with Java, and applied it to ABAP Objects. I'm now proficient in OO programming in ABAP. And have the added bonus of knowing Java as well!

matt