program in JAVA-ABAP

[Former Member]

Can we program in JAVA in mySAP to build an application equivalant to ABAP?

If yes, then how much JAVA is essential? is basics fine? or advance concepts are required?

[Former Member]

any clue?

Thanks in advance

[Former Member]

Theoretically its is definitely possible, but you might face a lot of practical difficulties. For one, all your application tables are in ABAP and for each operation you would have to call the ABAP table. As far as I know, the dictionary-level integration between ABAP and Java is not fully functional yet.

Secondly, each time you would have to do a Jco call to the ABAP engine to pass back values/call an FM in the system, etc. That would add to the time taken by your app.

You would require a very good knowledge of java to be able to code an entire app.

Sudha

[guillaume-hrc]

Hi,

ABAP is tightly linked with database/tables operations.

You won't have this using Java because JCo relies either on RFCs or on IDocs.

Thus, anyway, you would have to code the low-level in some RFCs of your own...

Best regards,

Guillaume