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ABAP runtime framework
Also called ABAP runtime environment. Hardware- and operating system-independent platform (virtual machine) of an ABAP program. Processes of the ABAP runtime framework control the execution of an ABAP program by calling the processing blocks of the program. ABAP statements are implemented in the ABAP kernel of the ABAP runtime framework. The ABAP runtime framework is provided by the Application Server ABAP and, therefore, ABAP programs can only be executed in AS ABAP.