Where to Download NetWeaver Developer Studio

[Former Member]

I am looking for the best/quickest way to get a bunch of Java WARs deployed to NetWeaver. From what I am gathering, it appears that they may need to first be packaged as EARs? Then, I have read that NetWeaver Developer Studio can be used to deploy applications. Is this the preferred/quickest option? Are there alternative ways, such as through NetWeaver's administration console or via a Maven plugin?

I am trying to download NetWeaver Developer Studio, but it is proving difficult to find where to download it from on sap.com. If I go to http://www.sap.com/platform/netweaver/components/index.epx --> SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio this will take me to SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer, which doesn't seem to be right? Or is it? Can you please provide me with the correct location for a SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio (preferably for Linux).

Also, as a follow on question, how or where can I configure NetWeaver to have a JNDI data source?

[ErvinSzolke]

Hi,

All versions of

NWDS are only supported for windows.

Best Regards,

Ervin

[Former Member]

Hello,

I have been trying to download NWDS, however I cannot login with my S-user as it does not recognize it. There is a blank page comes up with a pop-up to authenticate and it shows SAP marketplace login.

Is there another way to download it?

Thanks,

Bilal

[ErvinSzolke]

Hi,

what was exactly the URL you invoked ?

Cheers,

Ervin

[hofmann]

Is this the preferred/quickest option

Preferred: no

Quickest: no

Preferred is to use NWDI and have the WARs as DCs (and later SCs).

Quickest is to use an automated (build) script. I use ant and com.sap.engine.deployment.DMClient

[Former Member]

Tobias,

I have read and been told about NWDI, but I know very little about it and have been told that using NetWeaver Developer Studio 7.31 would be easiest to get applications deployed to NetWeaver 7.40. Currently I am testing NetWeaver Developer Studio 7.3 with an older NetWeaver 7.2. Seems promising, though currently the first application I have deployed is not working because I need to get it connected to a Data Source (ie, HANA and MySQL). I was planning on doing this via JNDI, but it appears non-obvious as to how to get JNDI connection pool setup...

I am not familiar with the acronyms DCs or SCs. Are these like SCAs? and SDAs?

I am very interested in a scripting solution, preferably with Maven, though. Can you point me to the API for com.sap.engine.deployment.DMClient or where I can download it and use it? Would be great for continuous integration with Jenkins as well.

Thanks,

Kevin

[hofmann]

To find out more about manual deploy using a script, check the SAP Help page http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73/helpdata/en/46/150746f21914dce10000000a155369/content.htm

(or wait until I get my blog drafted* or my talk gets selected for TechEd )

To connect your WAR to Hana, it should be as usual: set up the JDBC driver in NW, give it a name, make sure your EAR makes it available as a data source and use that source in your WAR. This blog of mine touches this a little bit: http://scn.sap.com/community/java/blog/2012/02/29/using-jpa-in-sap-java-development

*warning: can take a while

[ErvinSzolke]

There is no dedicated NWDS 7.40, the NWDS 7.31 is also to be used for NW 7.40.

See all the available NWDS versions at:

http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/Java/NWDS+Download+links

(I will soon update it about 740 that we don't deliver such a release, but 731 NWDS can be used to deploy to 740 runtime systems)

[fabianl]

Hi Kevin,

try this links:

https://nwds.sap.com/swdc/downloads/updates/netweaver/nwds/nw/731/

https://nwds.sap.com/swdc/downloads/updates/netweaver/nwds/nw/730/

br,

fabian

[Former Member]

Hi Fabian,

Thanks for the links; however, when I click on them they ask me to log in via a popup that says:

A username and password are being requested by https://nwds.sap.com. The site says: "nwds.sap.com"

I am already logged in to SCN and I am an SAP employee via a recent acquisition. Do you know if someone has to grant you permission to download these files?

Also, some additional information. I believe we will be using NetWeaver 7.40. Is there a NetWeaver Developer Studio 7.40? Also, we were able to get a 32 bit Windows version of 7.30. Is there a 64 bit version or a Linux version available?

Lastly, I am mainly interested in NWDS only because I have read that you can use it to deploy files to NetWeaver. Is there a less heavy weight way of deploying WAR files? I believe I have read a couple places that telnet or NetWeaver administration page can be used? A maven plugin would probably be ideal.

Thanks!

Kevin

[fabianl]

Hi Kevin,

u need a for e.g a s-user and the pw, same which u use for sdn.

the 7.40 nwds can u found at the SAP HANA Clous Developer Center:7:

http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana

The Studio itself here: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/webcontent/uuid/10e6e3ff-6081-2f10-e690-829e62...

Deploy war via telnet:

1) Just open a telnet connect to your J2EE by "telnet <hostname> 5<systemnumber>08

2) Connect as admin

3) deploy <path/filename>

Additional to the telnet u can use the deploy view from the nwds to deploy a archive, currently iam not sure if ist also for wae files but for ear it´s possible.

br,

fabian

[Former Member]

The links you provided are for SAP HANA DB Studio, which I already have. Are you trying to say that the HDB Studio is the same as NetWeaver Developer Studio? Or that, you can deploy to NetWeaver from HDB Studio?

[Benny]

Hello Kevin,

if you are an employee, you may contact me internally by mail. I can give you all the information you need. A forum is not the place to discuss internal procedures.

Regards,

Benny

[fabianl]

hi kevin,

so far i know its different, actually no nwds 7.40 exists only the hana(cloud) dev environment exist.

br,

fabian

[Former Member]

By chance to you have a link to a step by step document on NWDS?   A Beginners How to?

[Former Member]

Vincent, if you can NWDS downloaded (which I believe requires an SAP Market Place account) there are a couple tutorial/sample projects that come with it for NetWeaver, such as ConverterWEB. NWDS is pretty similar to Eclipse, so if you are familiar with that you should be able to get around pretty well in it. I am still learning how to use it myself. If you are using NetWeaver and have an instance available somewhere, you can go to the "Servers" tab in the "Java EE" perspective and a new server connection to it by choosing "SAP Server".

[ErvinSzolke]

Hello Vincent,

I found so far this:

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-8106

What I can also highly recommend is to use the built-in help of NWDS you can access from its "Help" menu.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Ervin