ABAP

NEW - BC490 - ABAP Performance and Tuning

Think your ABAP code is as efficient as it could be?
Most ABAP programmers can get an application to work, but is the performance always up to scratch? SAP Education are pleased to announce the first run of the BC490 - ABAP Performance and Tuning, as a Virtual Live Classroom event. This 3-day course will tell you everything you need to know to ensure your ABAP programs are as efficient as possible.

This course is intended for competent ABAP programmers, who want to extend their knowledge and skills to the next level. The course includes the following:

Architecture and Technical Overview
Analysis Tools, including the SQL Trace, Runtime Analysis, Code Inspector, System Trace and the ABAP Debugger
Basics for Indexes
Accessing Single Tables
Accessing Multiple Tables
Buffering Strategies
Recommendations for object-oriented programming
Analysis of Remote Function Calls
Analysis of User Interface programming

This course will be delivered as a Virtual Live Classroom session so you can learn from the comfort of your own home or office.

Date: 7th to 9th July 2009
Price: £1185 + VAT

Interested? Please contact SAP Education for more details.

UPDATED - NET310 ABAP Web Dynpro course!

SAP Education are pleased to offer a brand new version of the ABAP Web Dynpro course for those ABAP developers who wish to update their skillset to include this exciting new area for creating application user interfaces.

The NET310 has always been a comprehensive introduction to ABAP Web Dynpro, but the material has now been expanded to include the topics of Semantic Help (including tooltips and the Help Center), and Dialog Boxes (popups).

As in the previous version of the course, attendees will learn how to create or change applications based on the ABAP Web Dynpro programming model. This includes learning about the Web Dynpro controllers, the creation of context elements, navigation between Web Dynpro Components, and the definition of the UI/layout. Participants will also learn about the use of messages and value help relating to UI elements, embedding Web Dynpro components into other Web Dynpro components, dynamic modifications at runtime, the use of the ABAP List Viewer (ALV) in Web Dynpro, configuration and personalization of Web Dynpro components, and the integration of Web Dynpro applications into the SAP NetWeaver Portal.

By the end of the 5 days, you should have a thorough grounding in all of the necessary areas to allow you to go ahead and create a wide variety of web dynpro applications.

The first run of the new version of the course will take place on 22nd September 2008, please contact SAP Education to book your place.

New BC417 BAPI Development Course

SAP UK is pleased to announce the re-introduction in 2008 of the BC417 BAPI Development for Accessing SAP Components course.

This course will provide ABAP developers with the necessary knowledge to guide them through all phases of BAPI development. For those who will need to create and call BAPIs in a multitude of situations, this course will be invaluable.

Aswell as detailing how to create BAPIs, the course will cover Business Objects, enhancements to SAP standard BAPIs and how to perform external calls to BAPIs.

New for this release of the course, there will be content covering BAPIs and Web Services.

The new release will run on the SAP Netweaver Application Server 7.0, bringing the course completely up-to-date.

The first teach of this course will take place on 17th November 2008, please contact SAP Education to book your place.

NEW!! UI DEVELOPMENT WITH WEB DYNPRO FOR ABAP – NET312

SAP Education UK will soon be offering a new 3-day course covering the User Interface design aspect of ABAP Web Dynpro.

This course explains in detail how to implement user interfaces (UIs) based on Web Dynpro for ABAP. This includes the creation of a view’s layout based on the UI element library provided with Web Dynpro for ABAP, the definition of the related view context and the discussion of the UI element specific events.

In particular, this course covers the creation of the more complex UI elements which are not covered in detail on the NET310, including the Date Navigator, Phase Indicator, Road Map, Table View, and Tree.

The course will also discuss how to define the layout using the UI elements Contextual Panel, Horizontal Contextual Panel, Navigation List, MultiPane, and TabStrip

The Business Graphics UI element, which can be used to display graphical illustrations of data and data relationships is covered in detail, as well as some of the others options available for Presentation graphics: GeoMap,ValueComparison, and ProgressIndicator.

Finally the process required to integrate other technologies in Web Dynpro is considered, including how to embed SAP Interactive Forms for Adobe (and also static forms) into a Web Dynpro application, as well as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel files. The subject of embedding SAP Business Intelligence Web Templates into Web Dynpro applications is also described in this course.

Attendees should have experience in developing applications based on Web Dynpro for ABAP, the necessary knowledge can be achieved by attending our 5-day NET310 course (ABAP Web Dynpro).

GET UP TO SPEED IN THE LATEST ABAP TOOLS, SYNTAX AND TECHNIQUES

SAP Education are pleased to offer a brand new course for those ABAP developers who wish to update their skillset to include the new technologies and techniques available in SAP Netweaver. The brand new DNW7AW Delta ABAP Workbench from SAP R/3 4.6C to SAP Netweaver 7.0 will fill in all of the gaps in your knowledge and bring your skills completely up-to-date.

This course covers the changes and enhancements which have been made to the ABAP programming language and to the ABAP Workbench between SAP R/3 4.6C and today. For those experienced ABAP consultants who want to stay at the forefront of new developments in ABAP, this course will be very exciting.

In the 5 days, you will learn about the features of the New ABAP Editor and New Debugger, look at some of the exciting new test tools available to you, cover all of the new syntax elements and in particular will focus upon the implications of Unicode in ABAP. New innovations in the area of object-oriented ABAP programming will be introduced, such as class-based exceptions, persistence, shared objects and enhancements in an object-oriented context. Dynamic programming will also be covered to show the new possibilities. ABAP Web Dynpro will be introduced to provide an insight into this exciting topic (for those with an interest in this area, please note that this subject is covered in depth in the courses NET310 and NET311), and finally the new enhancement options available in SAP Netweaver 7.0 will be covered.

New ABAP Enhancement Framework Course – BC427

Starting in March 2008, SAP UK will offer a new 2-day course covering the Enhancement Framework.

The new enhancement concept of the ABAP Workbench enables the integration of different concepts for modifying and enhancing development objects. The enhancement concept is supported by the Enhancement Builder tool and ABAP language elements. The objective of the Enhancement Framework is to provide a technology to create modification-free enhancements and to unify all possible ways of modifying or enhancing Repository objects.

This course will deal with all aspects of the new Enhancement Framework, including enhancements in the ABAP Dictionary, enhancement options, points and sections, using old and new BAdIs for enhancement within the Enhancement Framework and using the Switch Framework to turn customer enhancements on and off.

This course will be of great value to any ABAP developer who needs to enhance SAP standard applications, who is familiar with existing enhancement techniques, but who wants to expand their knowledge to include the new options available as of SAP Web Application Server 7.0.

New Advanced ABAP Web Dynpro

Focusing on additional functionality, this is the follow-up course to the popular ABAP Web Dynpro (NET310) and will enable developers to use advanced ABAP Web Dynpro coding techniques.

The NET311 course will cover a variety of new functionality, including: how a controllers interface is generated from its meta data, what parts of a controller interface are visible to other controllers in the same component, and accessing the functionality provided by the Web Dynpro framework (using the ABAP Web Dynpro API). We also look at all aspects of pop-up creation, the use of Web Dynpro component interfaces, cloning used components and the dynamic use of components.