Introduction to SAP Web Technologies and

introduction to Webdynpro ABAP

Last Updated: August 9th 2017 by Ashok Kumar Reddy

Introduction to web dynpro for ABAP, introduction to SAP web technologies

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SAP Web Technologies and Introduction to Web Dynpro

ABAP
Below are the some of the SAP Web Technologies

 SAP ITS (Internet Transaction Server) is a stand alone server introduced by SAP in 1990's, it is an HTML based GUI and HTML based applications, it has it's
won limitations
 SAP Business Server Pages (BSP) is another SAP Web Technology which used third party scripting like JavaScript, it has some security issues with third part
scripts and developers need other scripting languages to develop applications.
 SAP Web Dynpro JAVA is the SAP standard UI framework for developing Web applications in the SAP NetWeaver JAVA environment. It consists of a run-time
environment and a graphical development environment with special Web Dynpro tools that are integrated in the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio (NWDS).
 Web Dynpro ABAP Web Dynpro ABAP is the SAP standard UI technology for developing Web applications in the ABAP environment. It consists of a run-time
environment and a graphical development environment with special Web Dynpro tools that are integrated in the ABAP Workbench.

 Web Dynpro is a new SAP programming model to develop SAP web based applications.
 Web dynpro is delivered in 2 languages.
 Web Dynpro ABAP and Web Dynpro Java.
 Web Dynpro ABAP is released from SAP ECC 6.0.

Basic differances between web dynpro ABAP and web dynpro Java
Web Dynpro ABAP Web Dynpro JAVA
Uses ABAP as Uses JAVA as a
programming language. programming language
Uses ABAP stack for Uses JAVA stack for
executing web dynpro executing web dynpro JAVA
ABAP objects. objects.
Uses ABAP workbench Uses NWDS (Net-weaver
(SE80) for designing web Developer Studio) for
dynpro ABAP designing web dynpro JAVA
applications. applications.
Supports ALV, select- Does not support ALV,
options etc select-options.
Not highly developed It is a Highly developed
language. language.
What are the advantages of SAP Web Dynpro ABAP
 Declarative and graphical tools minimize the implementation effort
 Strict separation between layout and business data using MVC
 Reuse and better maintainability through use of components
 Data binding enables automatic data transport
 Automatic input checks
 Full integration into established ABAP development environment

What are the pre-requisites to learn SAP Web Dynpro ABAP

 Core ABAP Programming

 Object Oriented Programming
 MVC Architecture (optional)