A complementary installation guide to openSAP "Developing Java-Based Apps on SAP HANA Cloud Platform" MOOC (Week 1) - PART 2

[amolgupta]

Introduction : A lot of participants had trouble (including myself) doing the initial setup as the installation step was referred to another course and there were quite some points where troubleshooting was needed. This documents aims at smoothening out those rough edges for people who are not too savvy with the mentioned tools yet. Also a lot of screenshots make it much easy to understand.

Date created : 14.09.2016

Environment : 64 bit Windows 10 laptop. Take care of appropriate versions if you are using a Apple device or a 32 bit machine.

Note for the readers : This document is a work in progress. I will try to iteratively enhance it. Do let me know if you have any suggestions or find something that should be covered and the same will be accomodated in the document.

This is Part  2 of a 2 part series. You  can find Part 1 here.

A complementary installation guide to openSAP "Developing Java-Based Apps on SAP HANA Cloud Platform" MOOC (Week 1) - PART 1

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-75155

Open the SAP Hana Cloud Platform Cockpit and navigate to Java Applications

Now use the Deploy Application button to start the wizard for Application (.war file) deployment

The file should be at the following link:

C:\Users\<username>\git\cloud-espm-V2\deploy\espm-cloud-web.war

Please note that the Application name should be "espm"

Now click on the ESPM application

Start the Application if not started.

After start the Application URL is generated

If you run the application at this point you will notice that Product List is empty.

To resolve this problem go to Cockpit -> Persistence -> Databases and Schemas

Click on "New"

Replace p<username>trial.espm.web with yourHCPAccountName.espm.web

Click on Data Source Bindings

Click on new Binding

Select the Java Application name and save.

Now go back to the ESPM Java Application and Stop and Start it in that order.

After this step revisit the Application URL

https://espm<pYourUserName>trial.hanatrial.ondemand.com/

Ahoy ! It would be a pleasant surprise to see the Product list being populated !