ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse Manual Installation

[former_member1105844]

Is there an option for manually-installing ABAP Development Tools (ADT) and abapGIT plugin for Eclipse instead of utilizing the Install New Software feature on Eclipse? We cannot upgrade to Java 11 at this time, but we can use Eclipse 4.16 that supports Java 8 at latest.

Is it possible to receive/download the files/zip for both software that we can manually install on Eclipse 4.16? If not, is Eclipse 4.22 backward-compatible for Java JRE/JDK 8 instead of 11 as required?

Thank you and Happy New Year.

[ysoethoff]

Hello Justin,

there is no other way installing the ABAP Development Tools or abapGIT. You have to use the "Install new Software" feature.

Regarding Java 8, the latest ADT release (at this time: 3.22) is only compatible with Java 11 (64-Bit) or higher. Also there is only support for the latest two Eclipse releases (latest three, in the time between a new Eclipse and a new ADT release). You can find further information in this note: https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3110480

Based on that, if you are really not able to update to Java 11, you have to use Eclipse 2020-06 and the compatible ADT release (latest compatible release: 3.14.2), but keep in mind, that we cannot offer any support anymore in case of issues. You can fetch this ADT release from the SAP Support Portal - Software Downloads (file name: SAPBASISAIE14P_2-70004188.ZIP). Following the latest installation guide is still fine, since there is no change in the installation process: https://help.sap.com/doc/2e9cf4a457d84c7a81f33d8c3fdd9694/LATEST/en-US/inst_guide_abap_development_t...

I hope this answers your questions.

Thanks and kind regards,
Yannic

[former_member1105844]

Thank you, Yannic! That's really helpful.

[joltdx]

Hello!

Even if you can not upgrade to Java 11 at this time, there is the option of having Eclipse run its own Java engine. You could consider if that is a viable option in your environment.

I refer you here to a blog post (by me) from march last year on installing a lightweight Eclipse with its own Java. It should still be valid for the latest version of Eclipse: Lightweight eclipse installation (or “yet anther blog post about installing Eclipse”). That post also references other posts that might be useful.

I hope this helps

[former_member1105844]

Thank you, Jorgen! Much appreciated. That's very helpful knowing this.

Cheers!