SAP AS ABAP - Glossary

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Application Server ABAP
AS ABAP for short. AS ABAP represents the application layer of an ABAP system in which ABAP programs are executed.
BEGIN_SECTION VERSION 5 OUT It provides the ABAP runtime framework and contains communication components such as the RFC interface, Internet Communication Manager (ICM) , and ABAP Channels. It supports Internet protocols (<(>HTTP/HTTPS/SMTP<)>, WebSocket protocol, and TCP) and XML. AS ABAP is implemented from a single message server and one or more ABAP_ASINSTANCES . It has a system ID that ABAP users can use to log on and a dedicated user administration based on a user master record.
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