Presentation on Classy Workflows / BOR vs ABAP OO

[Mike Pokraka]

Hey thanks Jocelyn, I just tested it again after your comment and yes I
found it did work (stupid bug in my earlier test!).

It is still quite limiting as subtypes have to be explicitly defined, but
at least we have a little wriggle room.


On Wed, June 27, 2007 12:55 pm, Dart, Jocelyn wrote:
>
> You can use narrowing and widening classes just with ordinary binding. But
> no I've not heard of IFs being allowed.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
> Of Alon Raskin
> Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2007 6:47 PM
> To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
> Subject: RE: Presentation on Classy Workflows / BOR vs ABAP OO
>
> Jocelyn,
>
> Just out of curiosity, has there been any changes to the Workflow Builder
> to allow the declaration of interface container elements?. This would be a
> really powerful feature and would allow the use of polymorphism in
> Workflow.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
> Of Dart, Jocelyn
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:44 AM
> To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
> Subject: Presentation on Classy Workflows / BOR vs ABAP OO
>
> Actually Mike, I think if you show ABAP OO using both the ABAP OO pattern
> builder, and the latest ABAP OO editor which has that Java-like instant
> help with putting together your ABAP statements, that would go a long way
> to helping folk such as Sherie to make the transition from BOR to ABAP OO.
>
> The creation of attributes and methods is really no harder - as you needed
> to specify instance/static, dictionary types, parameters and exceptions
> even in BOR, and as any workflow specific settings such as the
> "synchronous" flag are now on the task or are no longer relevant (such as
> "dialog").
>
> Also Sherie I would recommend you try the SDN blogs yourself as they do
> show you all the critical code which gives you the patterns you need to
> create your own classes.
>
> I'm hoping to finish the final blog on linking BOR to ABAP OO very soon.
> Just having some access problems from this site.
>
> Regards,
> Jocelyn Dart
> Senior Consultant
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
> Of Mike Pokraka
> Sent: Thursday, 14 June 2007 9:33 PM
> To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
> Subject: Re: Workflow development standards
>
> Hi,
> This can vary quite wildly by company. I would start with your ABAP dev
> standards and follow the general theme.
>
> I usually end up with a "Development Standards" doc that incorporates WF.
> Some of my favoured naming conventions:
>
> Workflows: Z<module>_name - e.g. ZMM_POAppr, ZFI_InvAppr, ZHR_LeavReq
> Bus Objects: Z<original object> for subtypes
>   --> Components (attr, methods): zNameWithProperCase
> Classes: ZCL_WF_<description>
>
> Hope that helps for a start, maybe people can chip in....
> Mike
>
> On Wed, June 13, 2007 9:31 pm, Michelle Van Patten wrote:
>> Good afternoon,
>>
>> Does anyone have development standards for workflow they could share?  I
>> have been tasked with creating them for our company.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michelle
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