ABAP_to_the_Future

Contents
Foreword ......................................................................................................... 19
Acknowledgments ............................................................................................ 21
Introduction ..................................................................................................... 23
PART I Programming Tools
1 ABAP in Eclipse ......................................................................... 35
1.1 Installation .................................................................................... 37
1.1.1 Installing Eclipse ............................................................... 37
1.1.2 Installing the SAP-Specific Add-Ons ................................. 39
1.1.3 Connecting Eclipse to a Backend SAP System ................... 41
1.2 Features ........................................................................................ 42
1.2.1 Working on Multiple Objects at the Same Time ............... 47
1.2.2 Bookmarking .................................................................... 48
1.2.3 Creating a Method from the Calling Code ........................ 50
1.2.4 Extracting a Method ......................................................... 53
1.2.5 Deleting Unused Variables ............................................... 58
1.2.6 Creating Instance Attributes and Method Parameters ....... 59
1.2.7 Creating Class Constructors .............................................. 60
1.2.8 Getting New IDE Features ................................................ 61
1.3 Testing and Troubleshooting ......................................................... 63
1.3.1 Unit Testing Code Coverage ............................................. 63
1.3.2 Debugging ....................................................................... 67
1.3.3 Runtime Analysis .............................................................. 69
1.4 Customization Options with User-Defined Plug-Ins ....................... 71
1.4.1 UMAP .............................................................................. 73
1.4.2 Obeo ............................................................................... 78
1.5 Summary ....................................................................................... 79
2 New Language Features in ABAP 7.4 ........................................ 81
2.1 Database Access ............................................................................ 82
2.1.1 New Commands in OpenSQL ........................................... 82
2.1.2 Buffering Improvements ................................................... 85
2.1.3 Creating while Reading .................................................... 87
2.1.4 Inner Join Improvements .................................................. 88
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