Is SAP going from ABAP to Java

Upto how much extent are following true, i heard from few SAP people.
1. lot of features currently implemented on ABAP will be shifted to Java gradually.
2. all the new functionalities will be preferably developed by SAP in Java instead of ABAP.
3. in the future, all of the components/features will be in Java instead of ABAP.
thanks,
Ganesh.

> I have a doubt over here ...All the SAP ESS/MSS applications were in Web Dynpro for Java but now they are slowly been converted to Web Dynpro ABAP ..... so is SAP going the other way round ...converting all its previous Java applications back to ABAP?
Yes - you're right - but that's something many customers highly appreciate, especially in the case, when they enhanced/modified/adapted the pre-ERP ESS/MSS functionality in ABAP which would now needed to be ported over to Java. Due to the conversion back to WD-ABAP they can stay with their current code logic and "just" need to adapt the frontend to WD.
I heard from quite some (SAP-)people something like
ABAP --> Service provisioning
Java --> Service consumption
so the business logic stays in ABAP but the frontend, that actually uses the functionality, is written in Java.
IMO the main problem of all that Java stuff is, that there is no consistency about how it's used across the applications. If you e. g. compare ESS/MSS to the BI (the Java parts) then you'll see, that ESS/MSS uses the ABAP customizing to layout the functionality on the portal but the BI uses real functionality to do that. Some applications use JCo, others use WebDynpro connections, others use ICM - just as the application grew up over the time. This makes handling different applications in a portal so utterly cumbersome because you first have to find out, how they connect to backends before there's a chance to find out, why something is not working.
Another example is e. g. the Redwood scheduler (provided as a basic license for free with each Netweaver license) - the software itself is VERY good but I would never dare to run such a crucial functionality as batch scheduling (on which we highly rely on for our business) on a Web-AS Java in production.
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