Overview presentation about the SAP ABAP Development Tools for SAP NetWeaver also known as ABAP in Eclipse (AiE). Talking about the history, strategic direction, installation, extensibility of the platform.

1. ABAP in Eclipse
Benefit from the Usability, Speed and
Flexibility of the Eclipse Platform

2. Eclipse a strategic direction for SAP
Eclipse based Development Tools:
• SAP HANA
• SAP HANA Cloud
• ABAP
• SAP NetWeaver Gateway (Client Dev.)
• SAPUI5
• SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio
• SAP Visual Composer
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3. ABAP in Eclipse History
• SAP Internal DemoJam Winner 2007
• 2009 Begin to move ABAP Tools to the open Eclipse Platform
• June 2012 release of the
"ABAP Development Tools for SAP NetWeaver"
also known as ABAP in Eclipse (AiE)
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4. ABAP in Eclipse Architecture
AiE is Extensible using the SDK for AiE
SAPlink smartDevelop
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5. Front end system requirement
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Eclipse Platform Juno, version 4.2 or higher
Operating System Windows OS (XP, Vista, or 7) 32- or 64-Bit, or
Apple Mac OS X 10.6, Universal 64-Bit, or
Linux distribution
Java Runtime JRE version 1.6 or higher, 32-Bit or 64-Bit
SAP GUI For Windows OS: SAP GUI for Windows 7.20, patch level 9 or higher
For Apple Mac or Linux OS: SAP GUI for Java 7.20, revision 6 or higher
Microsoft VC
Runtime
For Windows OS: DLLs VS2010 for communication with the back-end
system is required.

6. Back end system requirements / features
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NW
7.31 SP4
NW
7.31 SP5
NW
7.31 SP6
NW
7.31 SP7
NW 7.4
SP2
Debugger (* = with 7.21 Kernel) X* X* X* X* X
ABAP Test Cockpit X X X
Profiler X
WebDynpro ABAP Tools X X
FPM Integration X
ABAP for HANA Tools X
Refactoring: Global Renaming X X X
Support for ABAP Doc X
Connectivy & Integration Tools X

7. ABAP in Eclipse Installation
Eclipse Update Site
https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#abap
Demo Screencast
or
Download from SAP Service Marketplace
http://service.sap.com/patches
- Search - Eclipse
SAP Note 1856574:
RTC of ABAP development tools for SAP NetWeaver 2.7
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8. Connect ABAP in Eclipse to ABAP backend
• Backend must be maintained in SAP Logon
• Connection to backend is represented as a project
• Demo Screencast
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9. ABAP in Eclipse - Live Demo
• Quick fixes
• Using templates
• ABAP Doc
• ABAP Unit tests
• Code coverage
• Debugging
• Profiling
• Refactoring
• SAPlink for AiE
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10. Takeaways
• Eclipse is the strategic direction of SAP
• Requirements to use AiE
• Overview of the functionality
• Use SAPlink in Eclipse to install code from SAP Code Exchange
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11. Gregor Wolf
Siteco Beleuchtungstechnik GmbH
g.wolf@siteco.de
+49 8669 33-795

13. Gregor Wolf
Siteco Beleuchtungstechnik GmbH
g.wolf@siteco.de
+49 8669 33-795