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🟢 ABAP Development Tools - News and Roadmap

Shilpa_Shankar — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 07:51:35 GMT

In this session, learn the latest developments regarding ABAP Development Tools ranging from the ADT actions framework that let’s you extend your development environment with custom actions over new design options and an outlook on our future IDE strategy.

Speaker: Thomas Alexander Ritter

Link to Presentation : https://dam.sap.com/mac/u/a/N8rEjbA?rc=10&doi=SAP1136264

Link to Validation Tutorial : https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/devtoberfest2024-week4-abap-session-validation.html

Re: 🟢 ABAP Development Tools - News and Roadmap

JaschaS — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 09:57:52 GMT

First of all, thanks for the insights!

During the Demo, the examples show the insertion of templates with ABAP IDE Actions. Why did you pick that as an example when there is already a very good feature like that available? I find that the ABAP template feature in Eclipse is integrated smoother (with automatic cursor placement while navigating through the inserted template, for example), takes less code and probably no communication with the ABAP server. I know that those templates are local - but they can be distributed with a packaged Eclipse installation.

You mention a custom Code formatter as another example, yes, but I thought you would encourage the usage of ABAP Cleaner?

A documentation generator with an LLM would have been the real interesting example 🙂

Re: 🟢 ABAP Development Tools - News and Roadmap

towellssow — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:40:50 GMT

Hi JaschaS,
in my opinion, the demo should only show, how ABAP developers can implement their own features to enhance the Eclipse IDE, without the need to learn the eclipse environment and Java.

I'm looking forward and hope to hear from your LLM example to generate ABAP documentations 😎

Re: 🟢 ABAP Development Tools - News and Roadmap

JaschaS — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 07:45:07 GMT

Fair point, I agree with you that the "how" is the important part of the demo. It just leaves the impression that there isn't an already good feature in Eclipse that provides templates 🙂