Difference between Business object method and ABAP class methodsin atask

Wed Jun 20 05:47:42 EDT 2007

Have a look at the blogs Jocelyn mentioned on SDN.

On Wed, June 20, 2007 9:44 am, John A Haworth wrote:
> Hi
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> Where/what should be my starting point for looking at the OO workflow
> world as opposed to the historical BOR world.
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> Thanks
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> John
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> RE: Difference between Business object method and ABAP class    methodsin
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> Hi John,
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> Actually having worked with both ABAP OO for Workflow and BOR my current
> opinion is - only use BOR for eventing if you are using - a standard
> workflow as-is or an event technique that doesn't support OO - like status
> management events.
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> Otherwise stick with ABAP OO and link to the existing BOR using an
> attribute of type SIBFLPORB.
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> Best of both worlds.  ABAP OO is soooooooooooooooo much easier to use for
> enhancements.
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> Jocelyn Dart
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> From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
> Of John White
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 June 2007 6:53 AM
> To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
> Subject: RE: Difference between Business object method and ABAP class
> methodsin atask
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> I don't know the answer, but here is what I found on SDN. My experience
> has only been with BOR object, creating new, and extending existing ones.
> Hope this helps!
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> BOR objects is the category that have been around for a long time, while
> CL is a (relatively) new possibility. You should use whatever is more
> practical in each case. For instance, if you are working with employees
> and everything you need is in BOR object BUS1065 it makes sense to use
> that BOR object. If you find a class that has everything you need it makes
> (even more) sense to use that.
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> If you have to create a completely new object type you should try to
> create a class instead of a new BOR object. If you simply need a little
> bit of additional functionality or a new virtual attribute, my
> recommendation would be to extend the object type that exists instead of
> trying to create a class that extends a BOR object.
>
> and,
> ABAP CLASS
> Template for objects in ABAP Objects. Defined using CLASS - ENDCLASS
> either globally in a class pool or locally in another ABAP program. The
> definition of a class is made up of a declaration section for the
> declaration of theclass components and animplementation section for the
> implementation of the methods.
> BOR-OBJECT TYPES
> mySAP Technology service and directory of all object types (business
> object types, organization object types and technical object types) in
> hierarchical order.
> The object types are each assigned to a packet (and thus indirectly also
> to an application component).
> Directory of all object types in hierarchical order.
> The object types are each assigned a development class (and thus
> indirectly also to an application component).
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> From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
> Of Albina Fernando
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 1:41 PM
> To: sap-wug at mit.edu
> Subject: Difference between Business object method and ABAP class methods
> in atask
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> Hi,
>
>   Can anyone tell me the difference between using Business Object method
> and Class methods in the tasks of the Workflow. For eg. When creating a
> task we have 2 options. Either Assign a Business Object method or a ABAP
> Object class method. So I need to know the difference between the two. And
> also the advantages of using the two...
>   Thanks a lot for all ur support.
>
> Thanks
> Albina
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