Enumerations in ABAP
To represent a fixed value set in ABAP you can use several different technologies. The newest one is enumerations which are provided at language level and ca...
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ABAP language
How To Design Reusable Exception Classes
Using the object oriented exception concept I sometimes find myself in a situation that looks like the following.
Avoiding Literals When Using Reflection
ABAP’s reflection (and/or type introspection of you want to make that distinction) capabilities consist mostly of the CL_ABAP_*DESCR-classes and the DESCRIBE...
Using Chained Statements To Imitate Varargs in ABAP
In other programming languages (like Java for example) there is a concept called varargs for method parameters. Instead of having to build an array by hand y...
developer tools
Managing Updates to abapGit in Shared Development Systems
If you are using abapGit as a tool to facilitate your development processes you at some point have to decide on an update strategy for abapGit itself. Most l...
Installing AS ABAP Developer Edition with Hyper-V
If you want to install the AS ABAP Developer Edition, one choice you have to make is picking the virtualization software that manages the virtual machine. Co...
Additional ADT Code Templates
In the ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse one useful feature is code templates. With them you can easily insert boilerplate template code and adjust it as ne...
