Importing Development Configurations 

Use

The development configuration defines the contents of the development infrastructure for your work on a particular software project and configures your Developer Studio for the connection with the central infrastructure. Before you begin the development itself, you have to import the appropriate development configuration.

Development configurations are created in the CMS, and are stored in the System Landscape Directory (SLD),and imported from there into the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio.

Prerequisites

●      You are working in the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio.

●      You have a user account for the SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure (NWDI).

●      At least one track was created in the Change Management Service (CMS) with the relevant development configurations.

Procedure

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       1.      From the menu path, choose Window ® Open Perspective ® Other.

       2.      From the list of perspectives, choose the entry  Development Configurations.

The Development Configurations perspective appears. It offers several views, such as ActiveDCs, Inactive DCs andLocal DCs. If you imported one or more development configurations before, each of these views contains one entry for every imported development configuration.

       3.      To configure the access to the development configurations in the SLD, set the Development Configuration Pool in the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio:

                            a.      From the menu path, choose Window  ® Preferences.

                            b.      Open Java Development Infrastructure ®Development Configuration Pool.

                            c.      In URL, enter the address of the SLD server. For example, http://my_server:8080.

                            d.      Choose OK.

       4.      Set the proxy connection:

                            a.      From the menu path, choose Windows ®Preferences.

                            b.      Choose Workbench®Proxy Settings.

                            c.      Specify the proxy settings.

       5.      To import a development configuration, in the Local DCs view open the context menu and choose Import Configuration... 

       6.      In the dialog that appears, log on to the NWDI.

       7.      Choose the option remote. If the development configuration is available locally on your PC, choose the entry local development configuration file.

In this window, you can set the storage location (the root folder) for the files created in this development configuration. To be able to change this setting, you must first remove all development configurations.

       8.      Select a development configuration from the list of development configurations. Choose Next.

The Build Variants dialog window appears.

       9.      If appropriate, select a build variant for every compartment that you want to use for the local component build. (You can make a selection only if a compartment defines more than one variant.)

   10.      Choose Finish.

Later on if there are changes made to an already imported development configuration, you have to reload this development configuration. To do that in the context menu of the development configuration choose Update Configuration.

Result

The system reads the development configuration settings and sets up your development environment. The views Active DCs,Inactive DCs, and Local DCs now contain a new entry with the name of the imported development configuration.

You can now import another development configuration, if necessary.