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global class

Class that is visible in the whole AS ABAP. Global classes can only be created with the Class Builder tool in class pools and are marked there using the PUBLIC addition of the CLASS statement. A class pool can only contain one global class. All global classes of an AS ABAP are stored together with the global interfaces and the data types of the ABAP Dictionary in one namespace.