Few words about me
I started to develop ABAP since 2008 within the standard SAP modules (FI, MM, SD, CO etc.). At the moment, I am part of the FS-PM custom development team for an insurance company.
How I started with AiE
I want to be honest and to recognize that I had two tentative to jump from SE80 to AiE. In both cases, I gave up because it was difficult to change my comfort zone, so for example, from an "nice" form-based class builder in SE80 to an source-code based class builder in AiE. Another reason was also the debugger, because I had the false idea that debugging in the old ABAP debugger is easier and faster as in ADT.
After hearing a lot of good opinions from my work colleagues about AiE, I said to myself that I still have to give a chance to AiE and to forget my previous development style, or in other words, to make it "a part of the history" :smile:
Like as I said, it was a little bit difficult at the beginning, but now I can say that developing in AiE is 10X more efficient and faster than in SE80, having a lot of features which helps you in the application development. That's why, I try now to convince more and more colleagues to jump to AiE in order to use the fascinating features of AiE.
Favorite Features from AiE
I will enumerate some of my favorite features from AiE:
- The magic key combination ALT + U - Delete unused variables (all)
- Extract Method - an very useful refactoring feature
- Quick Fix (combination key CTRL + 1) - you get appropriate proposal(s) for selected object, i.e. for an new declared method in class declaration part, you can select the method name and trigger the feature Quick Fix in order to automatically create the implementation of the method in the class implementation part.
For the ones which want to know the features of AiE, the AiE feature explorer is the best way to do that.
In the end, thanks victor.ionescu for the AiE Feature Explorer challenge and last, but not least, thanks thomasfiedler for providing us the AiE.
Kind regards,
Catalin
