j boParameterDescriptor is the superclass of all other BAPI Beans parameter descriptor classes. Since SAP considers BAPI parameters to be BAPI Bean features, this class is derived from java.beans.FeatureDescriptor . Applications cannot directly use objects belonging to this class: they can only use the derived parameter descriptor classes identified elsewhere in this document. However, an application program can use the methods in this class to find the type of the parameter object being described. In addition, a program can use the Core Reflection API with this superclass to set values automatically to these parameters.

The jboParameterDescriptor class offers the following methods:

• getParameterClass
• getParameterType
• isSimple
• isStructure
• isTable