ABAP Objects - Percent of WF'ers using ABAP OO? ( zip zilch nada ZERO people using ABAP OO with WF? )

[Sample, Rick]

Judy,

Cool! But no need to hesitate. I don't. (to the annoyance of some... I am sure) I know how to use the delete key, so if something I don't like, I just delete it.

Feedback helps SAP with product improvement. We should hope so anyway.

What I am really miffed at is no BOR equivalents in ABAP OO so everyone and their brother doesn't have their own version of Display and spinning off a million instances of zCL_myClass. And no answer if/when we will have it. (Disclosure clauses get in the way I am sure) I don't know if it was because of the push for NetWeaver, BPM, <?> and I don't care. I want <something> ported. Some basic framework should already exist.

Sorry, Rick's Rants. Just my opinions...
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Gretchen,

I use in a couple places and works exactly how I would expect. I don't 'see' any issues with these yet. I have been told that using the BEFORE/AFTER Methods in the Task tab caused a lot of overhead, but that never caused me issues.



Respectfully,
Richard - The Lion Hearted (or court jester, depends on how my day is going) "WHY SO SERIOUS?"


From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Alfano, Judy (ISO)
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:04 AM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: ABAP Objects - Percent of WF'ers using ABAP OO? ( zip zilch nada ZERO people using ABAP OO with WF? )

I hesitated to respond because though I am using ABAP OO with Workflow, I'm no expert so I'm sure I'm not using it to it's full advantage. But it's been great! Like Gretchen I now use ABAP OO for new development and changes, but we still have a lot of BOR in place.

Judy Alfano
MassMutual Financial Group
Springfield, MA

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Whatever happened to having fun...
From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Gretchen Roberts
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:46 AM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: Re: ABAP Objects - Percent of WF'ers using ABAP OO? ( zip zilch nada ZERO people using ABAP OO with WF? )
I use the OO exits!  They are great!  There is also a ton of stuff you can accomplish in the binding when you call OO methods to populate container values.   So many background tasks can be avoided!

For new requests I almost always create classes instead of using BOR objects.   I do experience a small amount of guilt when I re-invent the wheel--but it is a much better wheel.   Mostly my workflows are a combination of both--many tasks calling old BOR methods and many calling OO methods.  Too time consuming to go back and rewrite everything but when I need to do generic work I will always use my new generic OO methods.

Gretchen Roberts
Working in Houston, TX
CP Chem



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From: "Sample, Rick" <Rick.Sample at graybar.com>
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group <sap-wug at mit.edu>
Sent: Thu, February 24, 2011 10:15:39 AM
Subject: RE: ABAP Objects - Percent of WF'ers using ABAP OO? ( zip zilch nada ZERO people using ABAP OO with WF? )

Hey Wug'ers

Honestly, I really expected a few more results on WF folks using ABAP OO. I see so much potential for adding it to the skill sets. Even if you don't use full ABAP Objects, just using a simple Program Exit class ( in a very simple class even ) has been useful for me. Program Exits, you can catch internal Task events. Like, if someone Logically Deletes a WF, without it, it is just done. With something like zcl_CompleteProcess hung off the template, will still execute the code. Very useful for me.

Humph! Interesting.

Buehler... Buehler... anyone see Ferris Buehler?

Rick
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