ABAP Acronyms

Some of the commonly used acronyms in NetWeaver ABAP :

ABAP - Advanced Business Application Programming
ALE - Application Link Enabling
ALV - ABAP List Viewer
BAdI - Business Add In
BAPI - Business Application Programming Interface
BDC - Batch Data Conversion
BPEL - Business Process Execution Language (for Web Services)
BPM - Business Process Management

BSP- Business Server Page
CAF - Composite Application Framework
CCMS - Computing Center Managemet System
EAI - Enterprise Application Integration
EDI - Electronic Data Interchange
ETL - Extract Transform and Load
IDoc - Intermediate Document
JCA - J2EE Connector Architecture
JCo - Java Connector
LDB- Logical Database

LSMW - Legacy System Migration Workbench
LUW- Logical Unit Of Work
NW - NetWeaver
RFC - Remote Function Call
SLD - System Landscape Directory
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
TCODE - Transaction code
TMS - Transport Management System
UCCnet - Uniform/Universal Code Council network
UDDI - Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
WSDL - Web Services Description Language (XML format for describing network services)
XML - eXtensible Markup Language