Last day on 28, Nov 2008 I had been to SAP TechEd 07 .It was my first experience to go any professional SAP conference .It was really awesome .
For all those who does not SAP TechEd is annul Tech Educational event which is conducted and managed by SAP .All like mined SAP Consultant and professionals come together and update their knowlodge on latest SAP offerings, SAP Solutions .
On entry I saw stalls of all SAP Partners like IBM , Accenture , Savera Systems (Founded by Versa- which was acquired by SAP ), Fulitsu and all .Other than this there were displays of Latest SAP offerings like How Web Dynpro ABAP Used for developing PI (XI is not renamed as PI ) etc .Now it was different thing than I was more impressed by UI of girl sitting next to me than Web Dynpro ABAP UI .At 4.30 I attended Session of BAAP ( Dad ) of ABAP – None other than Thomas Jung .He presented session over News in ABAP .Bottomline of session was ABAP will be more user friendly ,easy and less developers efforts oriented like Java , .net .Dot marro method , event , attribute hajir!!!.This is now possible with ABAP with version Netweaver 7.1 . For New features in ABAP .
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?Java concept of Package Development is supported by ABAP
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?Direct Regular expressions can be used
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?Introduced new data types
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New concept called BOX component which have completely Dynamic memory allocation
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Editor is in Java Style .. arrow( -> )marro Method Hajar !!!
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Coverage Analyser ( Show code line used in Green and not used in Red ) ….Now functional guys can tell ABAPer there code defects
After session was over I met capGemini old buddy and had tea .Entire experience was great as it was FOK ( First of Its Kind ) conference for me. As I was moving out one guy told me to take their photograph and I also requested them same See photo below.
After it I confidently went inside bus which was actually for all those who have presented TechEd Session .I was sitting next to one Indian beauty .We had talk for couple of minutes .Great Thomas Jung was sitting behind me .After it German damsel came .She was one of the most beautiful lady I ever seen .Both the girls one sitting next to me and German girl for me were like representing GAP between my reality and my dream .