Client/Server Technology (BC-CST)
Central part of the ABAP application server. It performs the following tasks:
- Initializes the application server:
- Reads configuration
- Creates and initializes shared areas (for example, tables of sessions or tables of work processes)
- Starts all further processes of the application server (for example, ICM, gateway, work processes.
- Monitors started processes and other resources
- Communicates with the SAP GUIs
- Communicates with other application servers in the system through the message server
- Manages and triggers periodic tasks
