Application Components vs. Namespace

[Former Member]

Hi everyone.

I've recently worked on translating our some components in our namespace, and I'm now looking into how the SAP standard way of translation is. So far google gave me this document: http://www3.telus.net/public/surasa72/System_Setup.pdf which could prove to be a great source.

On page 4: http://screencast.com/t/uvOp63aeXQK the document describes a structure: Objects\Packages\Application Components.

The document describes App. Comp. like this: http://screencast.com/t/KtGnPqacA

What are the differences between Application Components and Namespaces?

Best regards

Lasse Finderup

Edited by: Lasse Finderup on Mar 6, 2009 10:10 AM

[uwe_schieferstein]

Hello Lasse

Basically there are three namespaces available for customer:

- Y objects
- Z objects
- /mynamespace/ objects

You can register with SAP your own namespace which makes sense if you are working in a company where you do professional ABAP development for other customers.

Application components describe the structural hierarchy of the entire SAP system, e.g.

CA = Cross-Applications
FI = Financial Accounting
BC = Basis

If you assign your own packages to a specific application component then these packages will show up wherever you have a report using the application components as selection criteria.

If you have huge development projects such an assignment makes sense but I have never assigned any of my packages to a specific application component (except for eCATT scripts where this is mandatory).

Regards

Uwe

[Former Member]

Thank you Uwe