Getting started: Technical terms

Application Server: Term “Application server” refers in general to all non-database non-front-end computers. SAP AG uses the term for a family of processes: a dispatcher, some work processes, perhaps a SysLog sending daemon, a CPI-C-server, etc. “Instance” is used interchangeably in these cases. ABAP/4 (Advanced Business Application Programming/4), the Fourth generation programming language developed by…