Creating a Mobile Development Component

To work on development tasks across development environments, you have to create a Mobile Development Component (DC) project. Several development components make up a DC project. Each DC can have dependencies on other DCs. Different developers distribute the development tasks and the many development components are managed through the SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure.

More information: Development Components.

Note Note

In versions prior to EhP1, you could create projects that are not of type DCs. From EhP1, however, you can create only DC projects. If you have created non-DC projects using an older version of the IDE and imported them to an EhP1 version of the IDE, these DCs become deprecated. They appear grayed in the IDE.

End of the note.

Prerequisites

You have imported a DC configuration file into the development environment.

Procedure

In the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio, choose File New Project .
Select Development Infrastructure Development Component and then choose Next.

The New Development Component (Project) wizard starts.
Select Mobile Applications for Laptops and choose Next.
Select a software component and choose Next.

The DC is assigned to the software component that you selected.

Enter the following details for the project:

Field name	Description	User action and values
Vendor	Globally unique vendor ID, for example, sap.com	Recommendation We recommend that you derive this ID from the vendor's internet domain. End of the recommendation.
Name	Unique name of the DC
Caption	Name by which the IDE identifies the DC in visual tools
Language	The storage and display language of the UI elements, for example, field labels in the project
Domain	ID of the business domain for which you are creating the DC
Keep DC local for now	Identification of the DC as a local DC	Select this option only if the DC project is to be created locally. In this case, there is no assignment to a DTR activity.

Choose Next.
The next wizard window appears, displaying the storage location of the project.
Choose Next.
The next wizard window appears.

Enter the following properties for the project:

Field name	Description	User action and values
Name	Mobile Component Descriptor (MCD) of the application	More information: Mobile Component Descriptor
Version	Version number for the application
Description	Text that appears as the application link on the SAP NetWeaver Mobile Client
Link on Client Home Page		Select this option if you want the application link to appear on the SAP NetWeaver Mobile Client home page. This option is valid if you are deploying the mobile application directly from the NWDS to the client, for testing purposes.

Choose Finish.