Configuring the Development Server
Service
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1. Log on to SAP NetWeaver Administrator. The URL of the Visual Composer server uses the following format: http://<hostname>:<port>/nwa.
2. Choose Configuration Management → Infrastructure Management → Java System Properties.
3. Click the Services tab, enter VisualComposer (as one word) in the Filter field and click the Filter button. The VisualComposer-Development Server service is displayed.
4. Click the VisualComposer-Development Server link and check that the property values are defined as in the following table:

All the properties are set by default with the engine installation. You need to change the values of the properties marked with an asterisk (*) in the following table. For the remaining properties, just check that the default values appear as listed in the table.
Service Property |
Value |
com.sap.vds.platformspecific.properties.platform |
sapj2ee |
ds.core.embedded.contextcollector |
false |
ds.core.events.broadcast.sync.timeout |
10000 |
ds.core.extensions |
|
ds.core.index.cleanupinterval |
|
ds.core.index.filesystem |
false |
ds.core.jdkpath |
<as per default> |
ds.core.persistency.absoluteroot |
C:\DevelopmentServer\ |
ds.dcNameCheckRequired |
false |
ds.dcNamePolicy |
|
ds.env.builds.devconfigpath |
build\defaultdevconfig |
ds.env.metamodel.cache.enabled |
true |
ds.env.metamodel.eventing.enabled |
false |
ds.env.metamodel.persistence.onfilesystem |
false |
ds.env.model.dependency.fromfacade |
true |
ds.env.nwdi.defaultpackageprefix * |
The package prefix for the NWDI name server that was defined during the DTR installation |
ds.genfwk.additionalProperties |
|
ds.moduleType |
WAR |
ds.repository * |
NWDI_RA
To configure Visual Composer back to use the Shared Workspace (instead of the DTR), change the value of this property back to SW_RA. |
ds.synchronizedRemoteDeployment |
true |
ds.transacted.save.enabled |
true |
5. Click Save.
6. Restart the VisualComposer-Development Server service.