The History of ABAP

SAP Products

SAP RF (1973)

First Solution for Financial Accounting

SAP R/1 (1975)

SAP R/2 (1979)

• Allgemeiner Berichtsaufbereitungsprozessor
• later: Advanced Business Application Programming

SAP R/3 (1993)

SAP ERP Central Component 5.0 (2004)

aka MySAP ERP and first Version of SAP NetWeaver

One technological Platform for ABAP and JAVA Development - comparable to an almighty JRE.

SAP ERP Central Component 6.0 (2005)

SAP Business by Design (2007)

SAP HANA (2011)

SAP S/4HANA (2015)

1511

• First Version to Support BOPF with CDS

1610

• BOPF and CDS now support Draft

1709

1809

1909

2020

Technologies

GuiXT (1998)

SAP Netweaver (2004)

SAP BOPF (???)

• Business Object Processing Framework
• 2 Flavors
  • BOBX based
  • CDS based
    • Available with ABAP 7.50
    • Draft with ABAP 7.51

HANA Native Development (2011)

• XSJS based on XSC
• HANA Views
  • Calculation Views
  • Attribute Views
  • Analytical Views

CDS (2014)

• Very important part of Code-Pushdown

Web Dynpro (2003)

• 2003: Web Dynpro Java
• 2004: Web Dynpro ABAP

(CRM) WebClient UI

• Combination of flexibility of BSP and Structure of Web Dynpro
• Default Technology for SAP CRM and a lot of Solution Manager 7.1 and 7.2 functionalities
• Uses BOL and GenIL
  • Business Object Layer
  • Generic Interface Layer

Steampunk aka ABAP Cloud (2018)

RAP (2019)

• TechEd 2020: Announcement of Embedded Steampunk

ABAP

• 1983
  • First Version of ABAP
• 4.6C (May 2000)
  • Birth of ABAP Objects
• 6.40 (2004)
  • Also known as WebAS
• 7.02
  • ABAP Objects gets better
  • Intelli-Point
• 7.40 (2012)
  • Code-Pushdown-Release
  • Available for
    • EHP 6 (minimum 7.31)
    • EHP 7 (default)
    • Solution Manager 7.2
• 7.50 (November 2012)
  • First Version of S/4HANA 1511
  • Default for EHP 8
• 7.51 (October 2016)
  • BOPF now supports Draft
• ABAP Platfrom 1808
  • First General Available Steampunk Version aka ABAP in the Cloud

Quellen

• SAP R/2 (Wikipedia)
• SAP R/3 (Wikipedia)
• ABAP (Wikipedia)