Object Oriented.

[Former Member]

I am new to the concepts of SAP.I would like to ask a simple question.

1.Why is SAP referred as object oriented . What is the significance of that.

2.BAPI is the first object oriented concept of SAP as per my knowledge. Apart from this what are the other tools which are referred as object oriented in SAP.

Regards

Atahar.

[Former Member]

Hi Mohammed,

BADIs and BOR(Business Object Repository) are Object Oriented in ABAP.

Have a look at these good links too-

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.

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/

Mark useful answers.

Regards,

Tanuja.

Message was edited by: Tanuja Sarraju

[Former Member]

Check out these threads,

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

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

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

[Former Member]

Hi,

BADI also uses OO concepts in SAP

U can go through these links

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

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

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

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

<b>BOR Object</b>

http://www.sapgenie.com/abap/bor.htm

<b>BAPI</b>

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

Rgds,

Prakash

Message was edited by: Prakashsingh Mehra

[Former Member]

Hi,

BADIs also uses OO concepts.

Check thses links also.

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

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

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

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

Rgds,

Prakash

[Former Member]

Hi

1- Because the most important softwares/systems are based on object oriented language, so it's easier to link SAP to other systems, because SAP has choosen to use ABAP and JAVA as development languages, and JAVA is OO.

Moreover a OO language is more powerfull to design the layout, now in SAP there are some objects (for example frame control) for the screen they can be created only by OO .

2- Now every thing can be created by classical ABAP and OO ABAP.

Max

[manuel_bassani]

Hi,

in SAP programs you can use object oriented concepts (Classes, objects, interfaces and so on..).

You can organize your programs:

- with classic procedural programming

- with object oriented paradigm

you can define classes in repository (transaction SE24) or local classes (only visible inside the program in which they are declared) using statements CLASS (press F1 in statement CLASS and check ABAP documentation)

BAPI are special function modules and they have nothing to do with object oriented programming (see transaction SE37)

I hope to has been clear

Regards, Manuel

[dani_mn]

Hi shaik,

Form 4.7 sap have moved to object oriented approch completey. It's not only limited to bapi's.

You can build CLASSES, OBJECTS in your program. and use inheritance, polymorphism and all other OO concept.

New ALV grid is a good example for this which is build on oo concept.

see the class 'CL_GUI_ALV_GRID' in 'SE24'.

Abap is shifting from structural approch to OO now.

for details check this link.

http://sap.genieholdings.com/abap/OO/index.htm

Regards,

Wasim Ahmed