Eclipse PDK & Netweaver Developer Studio

[Former Member]

Hi,

I understand that we can use NetWeaver developer studio to develop java iViews to deploy in EP6.0. If that is the case if we develop iViews based on PDK5.0.5.0 and Eclipse Plugin compatible with EP5.0, still can we upload the iviews into EP6.0?. If not what version of PDK and Eclipse plugin need to be used to for EP6.0 compatible iViews.

Why can't Eclipse plugin for PDK develpopment can be included with Netweaver developer studio itself, so that if need be webDynpro based iviews or java based master iViews can be developed from a single Eclipse IDE. Ofcourse I don't mind havinf PDK Tomcat Servlet engine for viewing Portal runtime.

Thanks,

Suresh

[Former Member]

Here's a question. If you are starting out should you use the PDK or Netweaver Developer Studio? Is there a big difference between the two? Or is there a good reason to use both versus one or the other?

[Former Member]

I would really like to hear the answer to this question as well. We will soon be doing some custom develpment for the portal. It would be nice to have the repository and build features of Netweaver Developers Studio and one development environment.

[Former Member]

So far I've found that Netweaver Developer studio only works on WebAS 6.30 or higher. And to avaoid versioning problems it might be best to wait until 6.40 comes out in the late summer. I've been talking with SAP and consultants and it seems that for now we will use Eclipse and the Enterprise Portal 6.0 to do our development.

As a side note, I can't get the sneak preview version of the Netweaver Developer Studio to work. Keep getting an "Internal Sever Error" message when I try to run the WebDynpros. Anyone figure out how to get around this?

[Benny]

are you talking about sneak preview II?

Have you tried one of our basic tutorials?

Regards,

Benny

[Former Member]

Yes. And so far we have been able to get none of the tutorials to work. I'm uninstalling and reinstalling the software since I've just made some Java changes to my machine, but even if the tutorials work it will be of little good because we are on WebAs 6.20

[Benny]

Please keep in mind that 6.20 run under Java 1.3, while 6.40 runs under 1.4. If you mess up those two then there is not the slightest chance to run that stuff.

It is possible to have both on the same host, but you have to be careful what you do - for example the java_home variable should not be set because then every java app try's to go there and that kills one or the other....

If you want to, we can go into details, but for this I need more concrete error messages.

Regards,

Benny

[Former Member]

hi suresh,

that would be really great.. if we have a PDK plugin in eclippse.

i have been using eclipse quite some time its really great..

will do update u if i find one..

Sam

[Former Member]

Hi Sam Thanks very much,

Do u develop a lot of Java related stuff or SAP using Eclipse?

If you have any pugin you can mail me to sbabu@verizon.net

Thanks

Suresh

[Former Member]

Suresh

have mailed u the plugin at sbabu@verizon.net

regards

Saumitra