ABAP_to_the_Future

The Example Application
Baron Frankenstein to create a better monster. His prior monsters didn’t work
too well, so SAP convinced him to sign up for its rapid deployment service for
cloud-based, mobile, in-memory monster making.
One million LEU (the currency in Transylvania) later, he realized that the out-ofthe-box
solution didn’t give him everything he wanted, so he hired you to write
a monster-making program in SAP ERP. In this application, he inputs all the attributes
he wants from a monster, and your program uses algorithms as complicated
as the human genome project to prepare the final data, which then gets interfaced
to his monster-making machine via web services during a thunderstorm.
During the course of the following chapters, you’ll see (with code examples) that,
luckily for the baron, you can take ad vantage of assorted new innovations
recently delivered from SAP to aid in his monster-making quest.
Now, it’s time to raise the curtain….
Recommended Reading
왘 A Call to Arms for ABAP Developers: http://scn.sap.com/community/career-center/
blog/2012/10/24/a-call-to-arms-for-abap-developers (Graham Robinson)
왘 Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Martin, Prentice Hall, 2008)
왘 Head First Design Patterns (Freeman et al., O’Reilly, 2004)
왘 Antifragile Software: http://scn.sap.com/community/abap/blog/2013/12/01/antifragile-software
(Vikas Singh)
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