Background to the development of sapTALK

SapTALK has been created by myself as an experiment to see if an instant messenger program which automatically updates itself as and when new messages are sent could be achieved within the SAP environment.

 

There have been many obstacles during this development as the traditional SAP environment is an event driven process (i.e. the user presses a button and an action is performed.) and does not lend itself easily to producing  an application which updates itself automatically as with and instant messaging service. The first goal was to prove that it was possible to develop within SAP the ability to have conversations which automatically update themselves as an when messages are sent. Although this turned out to be possible, early versions did tend to cause SAP to get itself confused taking it beyond its processing limitations (or possible my coding limits). As SapTALK has progressed and my knowledge improved reliability has gradually improved allowing me to produce a stable version. This version achieves all the goals I set out to achieve at the start of this project, producing an instant messaging program which works within the SAP environment. The users are able to send messages to other users and see there replies appear on there screen automatically.

 

Although the basic components of a messaging program have been implemented and fully functioning, SapTALK is still an ongoing development with new and improved functionality being added all the time. Therefore I would be very grateful for any feedback in the way of error reports, new features you would like to see or any other comments regarding the program.