Future of abap

will nay body tell the future technology of abap ? i came to know right now calls are less in abap ? Hi Abapers answer to my question

Lets think about this logically for a second.  There are literally millions of lines of ABAP code in SAP solutions.  ERP which is written in ABAP is installed on most of the worlds largest companies and has been proven over the past 30 years or so.  The runtime is stable, the lanuage is powerful.  Do you honestly think that SAP will dump its investment in ABAP simply to change the language that its solutions are written in?  I think not.  There will always be a place for ABAP, because there will always be companies wanting to enhance the SAP standard and develop custom applications.  Even with the introduction of NetWeaver( particularly the NetWeaver Portal ) there is still a place for ABAP.  If you want to pull out some data from your ERP system you would need to either develop your application using WEb Dynpro for ABAP,  or expose this data via a web service or RFC enabled function module so that you can consume it using Web Dynpro for Java.
If you are an ABAP developer and want to keep your skills up to date, I would suggest watching SDN closely and shopping for some books on SAP Press( www.sap-press.com )  There are some very good ABAP books there which will help you keep you ABAP skills up to date.
REgards,
Rich Heilman

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