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Prerequisites

You work in the Development Infrastructure perspective.

You have imported a development configuration and are logged on to the SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure (NWDI).

Note

To log on to the development infrastructure, open the context menu of the development configuration and choose Log on... .

Context

Use this procedure when you want to create development components (DCs) for your development. You have to put your development in DCs to be compliant with the component model, and to benefit from SAP NetWeaver life cycle management systems. Once you have created your project in a DC, you can continue working with it as usual - the DC only allows you to smoothly integrate with the development configuration.

For example, if you want to perform Java development, you can create a DC of type Java DC, and having completed the setup of the DC, you can continue working on the Java project as normal in the Java perspective of the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio.

Development Repository Integration

If you work under version control using Design Time Repository (DTR), creating a new DC triggers changes in the DTR. Unless the DC is locally developed, you must add the created files to an activity. For a new DC, you have to create a new activity.

If you do not want to add certain changes to an activity, or if you want to include a local component in the development infrastructure at a later time, you need detailed knowledge of which files and folders are actually submitted to version control, and which exist only on the local file system.

Note

You should not submit any files to version control that are stored in folders named bin or that have a name starting with gen .

Procedure

  1. Expand the development configuration to the software component (SC)to which you want to add the new development component (DC).
  2. In the context menu of the SC, choose Start of the navigation path New  Next navigation step Development Component. End of the navigation path
  3. In the dialog that appears, select the DC type. Choose Next .

    For more information about the different DC types, see Development Component Types .

  4. Specify:

    1. The name of the vendor of the DC.

    2. The name of the DC. For more information about DC names, see Naming .

      Caution

      You cannot change the name of the DC at a later time.

  5. Choose Next .
  6. Make the settings depending on the selected DC type. In most cases, you can simply accept the proposed settings.
  7. Choose Finish .