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Methods
Methods are declared using the statements

METHODS for instance methods

CLASS-METHODS for static methods

that are only possible in the declaration part of classes and interfaces.
Methods determine the behavior of a class. Instance methods are declared by the statement METHODS . Static methods are declared by the statement CLASS-METHODS . The declaration defines the interface of a method. For special tasks there are different types of methods:

General methods

Functional methods

Constructors

Event Handlers

Each of these methods can be declared as an instance method or as a static method. Also available, are the

test methods

of ABAP Unit, which can only be declared as instance methods.