âIn the cloudâ is where everybody wants to beâat least in recent timesâand as of 2019 (just when everyone thought ABAP was about to die as a programming language), ABAP has joined the cloud party.
The original situation was that although the core of S/4HANA in the Cloud was still written in ABAP, if you wanted to write a âuser exitâ equivalent or build a Z extension in the same way you used to write Z programs inside your on-premises SAP system, then you had to write that code in Java or JavaScript, and SAP would supply ...