My puzzle in ABAP Development's future

As we know, after the issue of Netweaver platform,Java became a good development solution.
Compared with Java,what position is ABAP placed on? Will ABAP be  eliminatd some day?
Java & ABAP ,which may have a better future?
Expect your views.

Hi Alex,
As far as features are concerned JAVA is far ahead than ABAP, but on the other side ABAP can not fully comparable with JAVA as it is specific to SAP platform only. Now you can see that along with JAVA, ABAP stack is also been added to SAP web developement platform. ABAP objects are getting more preference to make it helpful in web appication scenarios.
Also ABAP can not be dropped out as it is the core and legacy of SAP modules which however may be made more flexible with JAVA for efficiant web accessiblity, somehow will depends on ABAP stack only to access SAP backend. e.g. JAVA based RFCs calling ABAP FMs to get data from SAP backend since SAP doesn't recoomemend direct adapters bypassing ABAP functionality.
For more see this
http://www.sap-img.com/abap/will-abap-be-replace-by-java.htm
-- vipin

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