HANA Studio Vs HANA Client Vs Eclipse ?

[Former Member]

Hello HANA ABAP Experts,

I am pretty much new to SAP HANA and hence I would like to know the following.

Eclipse - I have heard that Eclipse is an open source IDE where we can add the necessary plugins and code the corresponding program language. It can compile, report the errors and does all the things in a very nice way..All this is fine.

What I am stumbed upon is what to install first and how to setup my PC with the right things to connect to HANA DB. I have the following things with me.

HANA Studio
HANA Client

Eclipse Kepler

I am also requesing your help to explain me the key differences between the above 3

Note :- I have already searched the SCN for this particular query, unfortunately, I have not been able to find the right thread that explains all these 3 and their correlation. Appreciate if you can explain it or also point me to the right wiki or step by step doc that connects all the above 3. My system administrator had provided access to HANA DB Instance and I just wanted to do a basic ABAP program on this.

Thanks in advance

Best Regards,

Babu Kilari

[Former Member]

Hello HANA ABAP Experts,

I am pretty much new to SAP HANA and hence I would like to know the following.

Eclipse - I have heard that Eclipse is an open source IDE where we can add the necessary plugins and code the corresponding program language. It can compile, report the errors and does all the things in a very nice way..All this is fine.

What I am stumbed upon is what to install first and how to setup my PC with the right things to connect to HANA DB. I have the following things with me.

HANA Studio
HANA Client

Eclipse Kepler

I am also requesing your help to explain me the key differences between the above 3

Note :- I have already searched the SCN for this particular query, unfortunately, I have not been able to find the right thread that explains all these 3 and their correlation. Appreciate if you can explain it or also point me to the right wiki or step by step doc that connects all the above 3. My system administrator had provided access to HANA DB Instance and I just wanted to do a basic ABAP program on this.

Thanks in advance

Best Regards,

Babu Kilari

[ThFiedler]

Hi Babu,

this blog http://scn.sap.com/community/abap/hana/blog/2014/07/29/step-by-step-guide-to-setup-abap-on-hana-with... gives a good overview about the installation of eclipse.

But I recommend to use the latest eclipse version Luna instead of Kepler. You can find it here:

Eclipse Downloads

Kind Regards,

Thomas.