ABAP Objects - Percent of WF'ers using ABAP OO?

[Mike Pokraka]

Hi Rick,

I know what you mean! Some theories I can offer based on my experiences:

- Learning curve: Although OO requires far less specialist WF knowledge
than BOR, there are still quite a few rules to work by.

- Skillset: Many people learnt ABAP as a secondary skill to build better
workflows. They have a handle on BOR and - no disrespect intended - the
concept of relearning OO terrifies them. In some ways rightly so, BOR is a
bit more forgiving for people just muddling through. OO on the other hand
benefits from better programming skills, with the upshot of better quality
solutions.

- Installed base: Much SAP-delivered and custom-built functionality is
already contained in BOR. People see it as a huge task to switch to OO,
but this is really just a chicken and egg scenario because it's easy to
port BOR to OO *if* you have good knowledge of WF-OO. (Hint: The Book v2.0
will help with this!)

For anyone sitting on the fence, I say: just do it! There's no need to
make it a major undertaking, just tackle one thing at a time. As a rough
guideline, anything new gets developed in OO and anything requiring
changes is ported where practical.

Have fun,
Mike

On Fri, February 18, 2011 8:48 pm, Sample, Rick wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I scanned here and SDN WF blogs and I really don't see a whole lot of OO
> activity for WF. I am wondering if it is the learning curve, staffing,
> budget, lack of interest, or other. Since WF developers are about what ...
> 1 of 50 ABAP'ers, I would assume the ABAP OO to be orders of magnitude
> larger in number of posts. Just the opposite.
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> Any numbers on what percent is using:
> sticking with 4.6c BOR,
> phasing in ABAP OO with WF for new projects and re-writes, (This is our
> plan so far. Not implementing full BPM tools etc.)
> other BPM tools,
> something else?
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> Any of this data available from SAP with regards to who and how many are
> moving to <what?> Recent blogs on this subject? etc. etc.
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> As always, you may contact me directly.
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> Rick Sample | SAP Workflow Analyst/Developer
> Rick.Sample at Graybar.com
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