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ABAP/4 Development Workbench Architecture

The ABAP/4 Development Workbench provides access to SAP’s development tools which cover the entire software development cycle.

• The Development Workbench is the environment used to create and edit ABAP/4 programs.
  
• These tools can be used both for customer-specific developments and enhancements to R/3 applications supplied by SAP.
  
• All applications created with the ABAP/4 Development Workbench can run without further modifications on any platforms, database systems and graphical user interfaces supported by SAP.

ABAP/4 in the SAP R/3 System is a shared development environment.  This means that all programs reside in the R/3 Repository.   Therefore, other programmers are working with programs that reside in the common storage of the R/3 Repository.  You must exercise care to make sure that your program follows established naming conventions and are unique within the R/3 System.

Authored by: Roger Hayen © Central Michigan Univeristy and/or © SAP America, Inc. All rights reserved.