Working with the Development Environment 

Use

To establish a development process for Collaboration in the SAP NetWeaver Developer Infrastructure (NWDI), you need to set up a project and perform a number of tasks like coding, deploying, debugging, and testing.

Prerequisites

●      You have installed and set up the SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure (installed as NetWeaver usage type DI)

For installation information, see: service.sap.com/instguides ® SAP NetWeaver ® Release 7.0 ® Installation

For documentation, see: Template-Based Basic Configuration of Usage Type DI

●      Make sure that the software component created to put your development components in has dependencies to the KM & Collaboration software components KMC-BC, KMC-CM, and KMC-COLL.

See: Dependencies Between Software Components, Creating a Software Component in the SLD, Defining Usage Dependencies section (in How to Perform Development with a Track)

●      To ensure that an Enterprise Portal with Knowledge Management and Collaboration is available for deployment and testing, the SAP NetWeaver usage type EP is installed and available on a remote machine.

●      Optional: If your development includes search functions, the Search and Classification Engine (TREX) is also installed on the remote machine.

Procedure

       1.      In the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio, create a development component (DC) for a portal application.

See: Creating Development Components, Development Components – Concepts, Components Development with the NWDI

       2.      To get access to the KM and Collaboration APIs in your development component, specify the respective dependencies of your development component.

See: Specifying the Dependencies of a Collaboration Development Component

       3.      During the initial phase of your Collaboration development, add the items required for Collaboration development to the portal project.

See: Starting a Collaboration Development Project

       4.      Enter the coding and build your classes.

To build classes, go to the Development Configurations Perspective, locate your DC, and choose Build (in the context menu of the DC).

       5.      Deploy and test the new development component.

See: Deploying the Development Component

See also:

Working with the Development Infrastructure