Getting started with ABAP

Remarks#

ABAP is a programming language developed by SAP for programming business applications in the SAP environment.

Previously only procedural, ABAP is now also an object-oriented language thanks to the ABAP Objects enhancement.

Versions#

Version	Release Date
ABAP 7.50	2015-10-20
ABAP 7.40	2012-11-29
ABAP 7.0	2006-04-01
ABAP 6.40	2004-04-01
ABAP 6.20	2002-04-01
ABAP 6.10	2001-07-01
ABAP 4.6C	2001-04-01
ABAP 4.6A	1999-12-01
ABAP 4.5	1999-03-01
ABAP 4.0	1998-06-01
ABAP 3.0	1997-02-20

Hello World

PROGRAM zhello_world.
START-OF-SELECTION.
    WRITE 'Hello, World!'.

Instead of printing to the console, ABAP writes values to a list which will be displayed as soon as the main logic was executed.

Hello World in ABAP Objects

PROGRAM zhello_world.

CLASS main DEFINITION FINAL CREATE PRIVATE.
  PUBLIC SECTION.
    CLASS-METHODS: start.
ENDCLASS.

CLASS main IMPLEMENTATION.
  METHOD start.
    cl_demo_output=>display( 'Hello World!' ).
  ENDMETHOD.
ENDCLASS.

START-OF-SELECTION.
  main=>start( ).