SAP Portal 7.3 Part II - Configure NWDS with SAP EP Remote Server

Pre-requisite: Read basic of SAP Portal Development

This part discuss about how to configure your Neat Weaver Developer Studio 7.3 with SAP Enterprise Portal Remote server and making it ready for development.

Preparing NWDS for development

NWDS is based on eclipse platform and installation is pretty easy. 

1. Unzip the package to your folder of choice
2. Optional: If you wish to change JVM settings for the eclipse, take a look at SapNetweaverDeveloperStudio.ini file and change it.
3. Click on the SapNetweaverDeveloperStudio.exe which can be found under < install folder>/eclipse
4. The NWDS studio opens and you are ready to code.

Configuring Remote SAP Server in NWDS

NWDS can be configured to deploy and test code to remote SAP EP server from the studio. Follow below steps to configure a remote SAP Server.

1. Open NWDS 
2. From top menu, select Window --> Open Perspective --> Other
3. Select "Management Console" from the options
4. Click OK

This opens up the SAP Management console perspective in NWDS. You can locate the Management Console view from the top left side of the studio.

Follow the below steps to configure a server.

1. Right click and select SAP System from context menu (alternatively you can click on the + icon from the tool bar of management console)
2. This opens up "Add new SAP System" wizard
3. Type your SAP server IP address of host name in the "Instance Host name" field
4. Type your instance number for the SAP EP portal (default is 00) - check with your basis administrator if that is not the case
5. Type the host name of the server to "Add to Domain" field. (This can be any domain name of your choice)
6. Click Ok
7. The wizard will then try to make a connection with the SAP EP server.
8. If the connection parameters are correct, the wizard will prompt for OS username/password (SDM). Supply the necessary credentials
9. If everything is right, the management console will show the SAP system details (wait for few minutes to refresh the server)
10. You can drill down and view the SAP Server details from this view.

Now we are going to set up the deployment configuration for this server. Follow below steps to configure deployment view.

1. From NWDS top menu, select Window --> Open Perspective --> Other
2. Select "Deployment" from the options
3. This will open up the Deployment view
4. You will a repository explorer view in the left side of NWDS view
5. You will be seeing the server you have configured in the SAP management console in the previous step.
6. In this step you may be asked to provide the SAP Portal administrator/password. Be ready with that.
7. If you are not seeing the server (somtimes this happens first time - may be bug in NWDS), exit the NWDS and open up again and check.
8. Drill down the server to view the components already installed on the server. (Drill down may take sometime to refresh the items)

In the right side of the Deployment view you will also see option for deployment and un-deployment which you will be using later while developing code.

Continue to Part III for creating your first iView.

njoy 

Sajith