Questions related to the company SAP or their products. For more information, see http://www.sap.com
Questions related to the company SAP or their products. For more information, see http://www.sap.com
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Should our RESTful API be abstract or client-specific?
I work in the SAP industry where web-based UIs and RESTful APIs are a rather new thing, meaning some teams (like ours) don't have much experience in designing such systems. Recently there's been a dicussion that revolved about whether our API should…
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Worth it to Learn an Archaic Language?
Possible Duplicate:
Is COBOL still worth learning?
One of my better college professors often talked about the advantages of learning an archaic language (COBOL or SAP ABAP for example) in one's free time because of the advantages it provides when…
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Why use JSON dataset rather than SQL Query?
A colleague was asking me to explain a system information flow, as they are having problems with the wrong information being presented. It seems that what they have created is a custom built website, with it's own database, which gets it's data from…
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BDD process for SAP development
Perhaps this story should be titled "BDD definitions for agile service stories"...
For our .NET-based stories (always vertical slices) we use definitions matching the well known BDD format.
Sometimes the story involves work explicitly in a dependent…
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How to convince "old" co-workers of the merits of OO for certain applications
I am working as SAP developer, where in many cases you have traditional requirements to applications (reports):
Read in some data from the database or a file
Do some magic with that data, e.g. do various calculations
Write out the results into the…
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Role of an architect in SAP ABAP or SAP BI projects
Given that SAP modules are architected and managed by SAP itself.
However, small changes are possible at the customer's end.
How can an ABAPer on the client's side take the role of an architect at SAP that designs SAP modules? So what does an…
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What are the advantages of a 3 stage environment for SAP/BI development?
I have recently joined a team in which the developers were able to work completely in live production to produce business intelligence products for customers.
Recently, management, at the advice of SAP, have moved the team to a 3 stage environment…
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Could git be implemented in SAP ERP instead of the transport system?
In SAP ERP (probably in other SAP systems as well), you have transport orders which you could see as "commits" i guess in git. These transports are send from development to test or production system and then "activated", which means compiled in…
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