Hi Friends
I am Pawan Akella working SAP OOABAP Webdynpro Consultant having 4yrs of experience in ABAP Development
I came across Eclipse environment, when my friend who is working in BIGDATA as HADOOP Developer told me the features of Eclipse
After listening to me I said WOW the features of Eclipse are Cool
Wish for ABAP also we could have same Editor for development
After few days while I was searching for some document in SDN,I saw this post Getting Started with ADT for ABAP. I dont know that ADT means Eclipse for many days
After some days with curiosity to know what is ADT , I clicked the link and after that I came to know that even SAP has provided ABAP development in ECLIPSE and ADT is nothing but ECLIPSE
After waiting for a long time finally I got Hands on Eclipse
Now many questions on how to get started, Thanks to ABAP in Eclipse community
I haven gone through so many links like
1) How to create ABAP program in ECLIPSE
2) What are the advantages and disadvantages of ECLIPSE
3) Shortcuts in ECLIPSE
4) How developer life became easy with Eclipse so on
The feature I liked in ECLIPSE is code completion,getting Hints of the syntax and methods of class, ABAP Object Search, Navigation between two Objects, Showing Syntax Errors
What I Liked the most and Why?
1) Code Completion
It has reduced my burden to remember exact name of the class, Interface or ABAP Keyword
I type something and press Ctrl + Space it gives me a list related to that word
2) ABAP Object search and Source Code Search
with CTRL + SHIFT + A a dialog box will open and type the letters of the object which you remember
even wildcards are allowed .
the best thing is search is not limited to Reports or classes or interfaces
it gives everything related to that word
3) Getting where used list of object is very easy. what to do place the cursor on the class or method or function module
press ctrl +Shift + G you can see the results at the bottom.
Navigation between the search results is also easy unlike in ABAP editor or SE80 where after selecting one search result go into the code then come back again to the search result and select another search result
4) Syntax Checks
This feature is the coolest among all
It shows the error message immediately after completing the sentence what is wrong
Generally we have to wait to see all these messages during Syntax checks in ABAP Editor
this features saves a lot of time to developer
one thing I found difficult or maybe I didn't explore correctly is
when I created a class, I implemented an Interface and that Interface has lot of methods
As we know the Class should implement all the methods of the Interface
I dont know what methods are present in that Interface
Generally in SE24 when you create a class,inherit a interface in that class we can see all the methods shows up in the methods tab
This is one thing where I thought that SE24 is better than ECLIPSE
Thanks
Pawan Akella
