Is studying ABAP ADT OOP and SOA the future and structured ABAP?

[miguel_apmbb80]

Good Morning.
At the beginning of the studies we were presented with the "classic" of ABAP using sap gui or structured programming. Today through the SAP tutorials I could see that OOP is very present. The question is: Is it valid to focus enough on OOP to program in ABAP? ABAP's future is OOP using SAP ADT?

Thank you in advance.

[matt]

SAPGui (specifically SE80, SE38 etc.) was the ABAP development environment. Then came Eclipse (aka ADT). It is also an IDE. Some things you can do in SAPGui and not in Eclipse and vice versa.

Procedural programming is an way of writing programs. You can do it using function modules, FORMs (which are now obsolete and shouldn't be used) or classes.

OO is a way of writing programs. You can only do it through classes.

You can do both in Eclipse or SAPGui. But mostly it's easier in Eclipse. I still find the SAPGui debugger superior to the Eclipse one.

TL;DR

Future is OOP and Eclipse.

[miguel_apmbb80]

I understand. Thanks for answering sir.