SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.52 Released in September 2017
SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.52 Released in September 2017
Björn Goerke, SAP's Chief Technology Officer, announced ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform, which will make the ABAP development and runtime environment available in SAP Cloud Platform in 2018.
Introducing ABAP 7.52 Released in September 2017, SAP NetWeaver Application Server for ABAP 7.52 is a standalone ABAP stack consisting of the SAP kernel and ABAP development tools for Eclipse, similar to its predecessor ABAP 7.51.1 ABAP 7.52 is based on core data services and the responsive SAP Fiori user experience, and supports all traditional ABAP-based user interface technologies, such as Web Dynpro.
SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.52 also serves as the foundation for a range of SAP HANA-only deliveries, including SAP S/4HANA 1709 on premise and ABAP add-ons such as SAP Hybris Marketing.
What are some of the new innovations and features that are delivered with ABAP 7.52? ABAP 7.52 Innovations and Features SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.52 includes innovations and features that significantly increase the efficiency of developing applications that are optimized for SAP HANA and SAP Fiori.
Customers who are familiar with the 7.52 programming model and its tools will find it easy to build cloud applications with ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform due to their similarities - in this way, ABAP 7.52 also paves the way to bringing ABAP to SAP Cloud Platform.
5 SAP is taking this support a step further by bringing the ABAP development and runtime to SAP Cloud Platform, enabling customers to use both their existing ABAP expertise6 and the latest ABAP 7.52 innovations in the cloud.
Planned for 2018, this PaaS offering for ABAP allows customers to use standard ABAP language constructs - such as ABAP Objects, Open SQL, and internal tables - to write ABAP-based cloud applications that follow the new SAP Fiori and CDS-based ABAP programming model while also taking advantage of SAP Cloud Platform services, such as integration, document management, IoT, and machine learning services.
Figure 7 - ABAP runs in its own container in SAP Cloud Platform alongside other supported runtimes With the ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform offering, you can: Use your existing ABAP know-how in the cloud to write ABAP-based cloud applications using the same features and innovations delivered with ABAP 7.52.
Figure 8 - The architecture behind ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform Developers use SAP Cloud Platform cockpit to create new ABAP instances on an SAP HANA tenant.
Access to the underlying ABAP repository - which contains components such as ABAP classes, function modules, structures, data elements, and domains - in the ABAP foundation is strictly governed by whitelisted APIs.
The intuitive ABAP development tools for Eclipse serve as the standard development tools for ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform - SAP GUI is not supported, because screen processing does not fit to a cloud experience, and the corresponding ports for SAP GUI have been disabled in the cloud-based SAP kernel, similar to the discontinued support for list reporting.
Supported Use Cases for ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform For the 2018 release, ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform will support the side-by-side extensibility use case for SAP S/4HANA Cloud extensions.
Summary ABAP 7.52 brings with it the features you need to develop and support modern ABAP-based business applications, including language improvements, additional SAP HANA optimizations, and support for transitioning to the cloud - paving the way to the upcoming release of ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform.
With ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP community members can take their existing ABAP skills and know-how as of release 7.52 and bring them to the cloud.
ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform uses the ABAP programming model and tools that are known from ABAP 7.52 - with some restrictions that are required for cloud enablement and optimization - enabling developers to easily develop innovative cloud applications in ABAP and streamline your organization's transition into the cloud.
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