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March 16, 2007 1 minute read

New Blog Series: ABAP Trial Version for Newbies

With the new build of the SAP NetWeaver 2004s ABAP Trial Version (SP11), we in SAP NetWeaver Product Management are eager to introduce, through a series of blogs, SAP ABAP technology to those with limited ABAP experience. While the Trial Version allows developers who are new to SAP to start learning ABAP it can also serve more experienced ABAP developers as a sandbox for more ambitous development experiments or to learn basic administrative tasks. In any case what you should have is a basic understanding of IT, and experience in at least one programming language. The blog series will start with easy – but essential – topics such as starting and stopping the SAP NW ABAP Application server from the management console. They’ll lead you to the development environment, where you can check out how easy and convenient it is to write applications in ABAP. Of course, the blogs cannot replace a solid training in ABAP technology, but it can serve as an appetizer before you delve deeper. With every blog, your knowledge of SAP technology will improve. And finally, you will have an overview of what’s going on in the ABAP application server. Feel free to make a suggestion for the topic you are interested in.

Part 1 ‘ Download and installation of the Trial Version ‘

Part 2 ‘ Starting and Stopping the Application Server ‘

Part 3 ‘ Why and How the Server Matters to You as a Developer: Server Architecture and Work Processes ‘

Part 4 ‘ Many Developers On One Central Server – How Does It Work ‘

Part 5 ‘ Navigation in the Application Server ‘

Part 6 ‘ A first Hello-World-Program ‘

Part 7 ‘ Creating a Program and a Package – An Introduction to the SAP Change and Transport System ‘

Part 8 ‘ Exporting development objects from SP8’

Part 9 ‘ Importing a transport into SP11 ‘

Part 10 ‘ A First Little Business Program ‘

Part 11 ‘ Getting More Familiar With the ABAP Dictionary ‘

Part 12 ‘ Debugging in ABAP ‘

Part 13 ‘ Get Your Program up to Speed ‘

Part 14 ‘ The Foundation of an Application – Creating the Database Tables ‘

Part 15 ‘ How to Dynamically Create Test Data for Our Database Table ‘

Part 16 ‘ MaxDB: Database Manager and SQL Studio ‘

Part 17 ‘ Your first ABAP Object ‘

Part 18 ‘ Starting with Web Dynpro for ABAP ‘

There are two forums where you can post your questions and ask for help in case of trouble.

Trials, Previews & Other Downloads for general discussions about the trial versions ( interesting projects you are doing with it, wishes for the future,…) Web AS Preview Installation for concrete problems with the installation.

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Former Member

March 16, 2007 at 4:27 am

Hi ,

It would be very helpful , if you could tell us the a road map to do a self learning in ABAP languague.

Dirk Feeken

March 16, 2007 at 7:12 am

That's what this blog series is intended to do.
Another way to start learning ABAP on your own (if you don't want to take the official SAP training courses BC400, BC401,...) is by reading the book "ABAP Objects" by Horst Keller and doing the exercises.
(The second edition will be shipped in english soon.)

Former Member

March 22, 2007 at 3:19 am

Yeah, But I feel strongly that courses BC400 and BC401 should be attended by everyone.

Mingzuo Shen

March 16, 2007 at 5:53 am

I am interested in __anything__
you can do in the trial
versions (both ABAP and Java),
both development and admin wise.

Former Member

March 16, 2007 at 8:23 pm

Hi,

I am intrested in learning XI. Can we practice XI on these ABAP Trial version?

Dirk Feeken

March 20, 2007 at 6:32 am

Sorry, no this is just the ABAP part of the NW application server. XI requires a double stack with ABAP and Java (for the adaptors).

Abdul Hakim

March 17, 2007 at 4:07 am

Whether the ABAP Trial Version Netweaver2004s is an IDES system??..If not how can we have data for Practicing(Creating Programs) for eg.Material masters data,Vendor Masters data,Customer Masters data,GL Masters data...???

Cheers,
Hakim

Peter Inotai

March 19, 2007 at 11:07 pm

Hi Manfred,

It's great that ABAP and ABAPers got such support.
I have a couple of questions:
1) What is new in this version compare to the SP08 version apart from SP09-11 and the kernel patch (I guess)?
2) Is the ABAP Book example package included such in case of version SP08?
3) Is there any ABAP 7.10 Sneak Preview planned? Or is it too early to talk about this?

Thanks in advance,
Peter

Dirk Feeken

March 20, 2007 at 6:44 am

Hi Peter,

next to the SP11 corrections the major improvements are fixed the bugs which showed up in the SP08 version, like the (annoying) disp+work crash when trying to create web services.
The ABAP book examples are also contained in this version, and regarding further versions ... lets say that we don't plan to stop our trial version activities.

Dirk

Peter Inotai

March 20, 2007 at 7:13 am

Hi Dirk,
Thanks for the info.
I'm happy to read the plans about trial versions 🙂
Best regards,
Peter

Former Member

March 20, 2007 at 6:42 pm

hi,

my system has 512 RAM and 80 GB hard disk. can i download the trial version of ABAP.
Is there any other way to download abap with this conf?

Dirk Feeken

March 21, 2007 at 1:57 am

You can try it. The system will run on a 512MB PC but it won't be fun to work with.
Investing in another 512MB memory makes probaby more sense than wasting too much time with such a slow system.

Former Member

March 22, 2007 at 12:37 am

Hi Dirk,

Thanks for the info.

Regards
Preeti Yadav

Former Member

March 29, 2007 at 8:01 am

Hello!

If I install everything required for this tutorial, will I run into any problems (software conflicts, not performance or memory etc...) with the SAP Netweaver Developer Studio and the SAP MMC I already have installed on my machine?

Regards
Kurt

Former Member

April 4, 2007 at 11:55 pm

Hi,

Can you please tell me how much free space is required to install this version of ABAP?

Thanks

Raj

Former Member

Blog Post Author

April 5, 2007 at 12:19 am

hi Raj,
it is 22 GB hard disk space temporary during installation - 10 GB permanent.

regards, manfred

Former Member

April 6, 2007 at 12:57 pm

Hi,

Wondering if this would work on Vista dual core PC ?

Thanks,
Viren.

Klaus Keller

April 17, 2007 at 8:29 pm

Hello Viren,

Successfully installing the Trail Version on Windows Vista is not promised from SAP side, but our mighty community in SDN have already tested it and got it work:

2004s on Windows Vista

Regards,
Klaus

Former Member

May 17, 2007 at 1:09 pm

When installing 2004s, the documentation states that there is a predefined Userid and PW.
I am now attempting to uninstall Max DB. It is requesting a Userid and PW.
What values do I use?
Please respond to jerhoades@verizon.net.
Thank you

Durairaj Athavan Raja

May 19, 2007 at 8:00 pm

userid:control
pwd: control

(if you had given a differnt master password during installation , use that.)

Former Member

May 17, 2007 at 1:19 pm

I forgot to mention that I first attempted to remove the 2004s version in add/remove programs. The uninstall failed and Max DB is hogging 12 gig of disk space. How do I blow it away?

Former Member

May 17, 2007 at 1:29 pm

I refreshed add/remove programs and the Max DB entry vanished. There are still a lot of SAP files left on the C: drive. Is it safe to simply delete them?

Former Member

May 19, 2007 at 11:52 am

What do I need to develop in both ABAP and Java?
Install both
SAP NetWeaver 04s SP9 AND
SAP NetWeaver 04s SP11
?

Gregor Wolf

April 15, 2008 at 9:21 pm

Hi Rick,

the easiest way to get a Dual Stack running ist to use the ABAP/Java VMWare Edition. Have a look at my Blog SAP NetWeaver 7.0 - Java and ABAP Trial Version on Linux - VMware Edition - Tips & Tricks.

Best regards
Gregor

Former Member

June 7, 2007 at 6:36 am

Hello,

I am trying to install a license, my previous one runs out in three days. When I go to install it I get the error message 'The license key library has not been initialized yet.' ... when installing, I follow the exact procedure to install the entended license, but I always get the error. Is it because I have to wait before the old license expires?

Please advise,
Many thanks
Sulman

Former Member

Blog Post Author

June 26, 2007 at 12:22 am

hello Sulman,

did you check the link Re: The license key library has not been initialized yet.

regards, Manfred

Former Member

June 13, 2007 at 9:48 am

hi
i need to download the two files what you mentioned in the abap trail versions.

I am unable to download it.plz help me.

thnks
Ratan

Former Member

Blog Post Author

June 26, 2007 at 12:07 am

Now it's back again with new SP12.

regards, Manfred

Former Member

June 14, 2007 at 1:19 am

Hello ,
when trying to extend the demo license on the nsp the first time, I am getting the error message: The license key library has not been initialized yet.
Any ideas?

Former Member

Blog Post Author

June 25, 2007 at 10:58 pm

hello Michael,

here comes the link to your solution.
Re: The license key library has not been initialized yet.

regards, Manfred

Peter Inotai

July 6, 2007 at 3:09 am

Hi Manfred,

Could you consider the possibility of adding the Adobe Designer to the future versions of the SAPGUI for ABAP Sneak Preview?
It would be useful for the Adobe forms.

Thanks in advance,
Peter

Former Member

July 11, 2007 at 9:23 am

Hello,

I have read this wiki:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/bi/setting+up+bi+in+netweaver+7.0+abap+trial+version&

I have created NWUSER successfully with SAP_ALL and SAP_NEW and field BWMANDT = 001

but I can only connect NWUSER with client 000 not 001:why ?

Thanks.

Former Member

July 19, 2007 at 12:09 pm

There are any trial version that has got the r/3 modules for practices??

Former Member

October 22, 2007 at 3:49 am

Dear Manfred Lutz,

Really commendable effort;
Thanks for these weblogs.

I would greatly appreciate
if similiar weblogs were
created for PI (XI) learning.
PI (XI) step by step for newbies!

Thanks again,
Aby Jacob

Former Member

November 7, 2007 at 1:59 am

I have succesfully instaled trail version..But iam unable to logon,it says server 121.0.0.1 not reachable,but i have that entry in the hosts file.Can anyone help me?

Dominic Schmoigl

February 8, 2008 at 1:58 pm

Please check your ip address: you wrote 121.0.0.1, but it's 127.0.0.1

Former Member

February 18, 2008 at 11:07 pm

Please see my reply to Jelly Yang above your post. Other than the IP problem pointed out, the comp name has to be 13 char or less. You will need to uninstall everything and start from scratch as in my reply referred

Former Member

March 21, 2008 at 9:55 am

You have two options for that .

1>Go to my computer and change your computer name to localhost.

2>Install microsoft loopback adapter .in it provide the ip address that you have assigned to your computer in ets hosts file.

if this doesnot solves your problem reply me back.

Former Member

December 27, 2007 at 12:51 am

I have installed the system succrssed,and can login in ,there is no problem but run webdynpro.
i changed a file in the system32 "127.0.0.1 localhost.com.cn" and saved,but still can't run.
it hinted "code=CANT_CONNECT_LOOPBACK] Cannot connect due to potential loopback problems "
can anyone help me resolve it? Thanks .

Former Member

February 18, 2008 at 11:04 pm

1. You have to uninstall everything first. <br/><br/>2. To uninstall : <br/> All programs => sap netweaver.. => NSP => uninstall.<br/> : Control Panel => add remove programs, remove SAP related programs one by one viz SAP GUI, SAP MMC snap

Former Member

June 12, 2008 at 2:42 pm

Hi Manfred

I like to know differences between 4.7 and this NW7ABAP.

Like I heard that NW is mainly used for webbased and ABAP is not desktop base like.

Can you please explain in detail.

Where as I am looking forward to learn ABAP towards webbased. Is it possible.

Thanks in advance.

Surabhi

Former Member

October 24, 2008 at 5:26 pm

Hi Manfred
I'm trying to install the SAPnw ABAP trial version on windows vista, but at the beginning of the instalation it appears an error with java. What can i do? Thanks

Former Member

Blog Post Author

October 25, 2008 at 10:13 am

hi Carlos,

only the newest version of the ABAP Trial can be installed on MS Vista. You can get it from https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/80fd9a0a-e306-2a10-c896-b84c77c13ed2

kind regards,

- Manfred

Former Member

December 12, 2008 at 7:36 am

This is a great blog and very helpful - many thanks! I'm just wondering if 'series 19' will be forthcoming or is it time to jump the nest and venture out on our own? 🙂

Former Member

November 8, 2010 at 4:54 am

Hi,

I installed SAP netweaver 7.01 SR1 SP3 Trial Version in my laptop. Creating a new Function Group is asking for an access key. Is there any access key number for trial versions? How else shall i create a function group?

Regards,
Divya

Otto Gold

May 14, 2012 at 3:19 pm

Hi,

your blog is cool, except small detail:

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Can you please repair it?

Thanks for your effort and help to the many,

cheers Otto

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