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ABAP Objects

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In the R/3 product from the German software company, SAP, ABAP Objects is a programming language and part of the ABAP Workbench that allows developers to create and run applications that contain program objects. ABAP Objects includes a virtual machine that will run applications compiled with ABAP Objects language. Like similar object-oriented programming languages, ABAP Objects supports the concepts of class objects, class and subclass inheritance, and polymorphism.

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