NWDI & ISA 5.0

[Former Member]

I was told that in order to develop/modify the standard ISA 5.0 application, NWDI is mandatory. When modifying ISA 4.0, our team used a combination of NWDS and TextPad.

Can some one confirm or rebuke this? Also, if it is not mandatory, but it would make my life a lot easier, I'd like to know that too.

I'm not exactly sure what the NWDI provides a developer. Is it similar to Microsoft Visual Studio in some respects?

Any information is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Bryan

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

NWDI is the Netweaver Development Infrastructure - also sometimes known as the JDI (Java Development Infrastructure.)

It is in essence a change management, version control and transport system for Java based development. It is typically used with all of the new Web Dynpro for Java developments and the MSS/ESS modules.

A number of SAP's packages of applications (such as ESS/MSS and ISA) are built in such a way that yes you do have to use NWDI to modify them.

I'd say its benefits are that you have proper change management and transport management through your system as well as enabling a number of developers to work on 1 single piece of code at the same time and then managing the merging of changes.

After being through the pain of building a custom ISA 4.0 solution and also working on ESS/MSS with NWDI I'd say NWDI is much better and if SAP have built ISA 5.0 in a similar way it is much better to work with.

Gareth.

[Former Member]

One other thing to be aware of, is if you need help/support from SAP you are much more likely to receive it if you are using their suggested tools/methodologies...

Gareth.

[Former Member]

Thanks to both of you. I think I'm going to look into using NWDS in combination with the NWDI. Since there will be three developers working on the upgrade of our 4.0 environment to 5.0, it makes sense to use the best tools.

Bryan

[Former Member]

You could check this site for info on another way of maintaining the applicaion

<a href="http://wiki.colar.net/jotwiki/view.do/b2c_no_nwdi">http://wiki.colar.net/jotwiki/view.do/b2c_no_nwdi</a>

[Former Member]

Very good blog.. rollo...

Would you have any suggestions on B2B application for ISA application?

Like how to set up compile and build the application without using NWDI

Please let us know asap

Thanks

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[Former Member]

I used notepad when editing our ISA 5 application.

It is possible to do without NWDI

rollo