Enhancement Spot Overview

Enhancement  Framework

 

§Enhancement Framework is the new paradigm to bring all enhancement techniques under one roof.

§Difference between Enhancement Framework and User Exits and BADI:

Ø For User Exits and BADI

-upgrading customer systems, requires a lot of time and effort.

-difficult to trace various developments to an original system back to this system.

Ø For Enhancement Framework

-creation of modification-free enhancements

-integration of different concepts, for enhancing development objects, in a uniform framework, is possible.

§The followings are different enhancement technologies available under this framework:

–Source Code Enhancement

–Function Group Enhancement

–Class Enhancement

–Kernel-BADI Enhancement

     The first three methods, viz., Source Code enhancement, Function Group enhancement, and Class enhancement are entirely new ways to enhance the ABAP system. The final one Kernel-BADI is an improvement of the old classic-BADI.

  

Source Code Enhancement

  

§    This method can be provided whenever enhancement needs to be incorporated directly into the ABAP source code.

§     Also known as Source Code Plug-In.

§     Technically the source code plug-in implementations are stored in a separate include     program and not as part of the original source program

§     Two types of Source Code enhancements possible:    

        

Ø      Implicit enhancement option

Ø      Explicit enhancement option

     

§   In order to implement any of these Source code enhancements, user needs to be in the ‘Change Enhancement mode’ (the spiral icon available in the editor) :