Monday, September 29, 2014

Connecting to SAP backend with Eclipse

I bet that many of you already tried ABAP development in Eclipse (AiE). The Eclipse is modern development platform and has a lot to offer also to ABAP developers. I tried the Eclipse recently (see my post: How to install SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP 7.03 SP04 Trial – Ready for ABAP in Ecplipse (AiE)) and I must say I like it and currently it is my preferred way of developer IDE. Needless to say that Eclipse is not only for ABAP development but currently there are many other SAP development objects backed by the Eclipse.


Once I started with AiE I tried to use it in as many systems as I have an access to. For some of them it worked for some it didn't. Actually my attempt to connect SAP back-end ended with following error message:













User xyz is not authorized to access system ABC via ABAP in Eclipse (The system does not support Eclipse based ABAP Development Tools).


Therefore I started to look what are prerequisites to connect with the Eclipse to SAP backend system. What needs to be deployed in SAP NEtWeaver ABAP backend is software component called SAP_BASIS_AIE. There are following versions of this component:

SAP_BASIS_AIE version
Available as of
SAP Note
2.0
20.11.2012
1718399 - RTC of ABAP Development Tools for SAP NetWeaver
2.7
07.05.2013
1856574 - RTC of ABAP development tools for SAP NetWeaver 2.7
2.13
12.07.2013
1886449 - RTC of ABAP development tools for SAP NetWeaver 2.13
2.16
20.09.2013
1916008 - RTC of ABAP development tools for SAP NetWeaver 2.16
2.19
04.12.2013
1950493 - RTC of ABAP development tools for SAP NetWeaver 2.19
2.24
28.02.2014
1985505 - RTC of ABAP development tools for SAP NetWeaver 2.24
2.28
22.05.2014
2020847 - RTC of ABAP development tools for SAP NetWeaver 2.28
2.31
14.07.2014
2041627 - RTC of ABAP development tools for SAP NetWeaver 2.31


They all need at least SAP enhancement package 3 for SAP NetWeaver 7.0. Means any SAP NetWeaver ABAP 7.03 SP04 or 7.4 SP00 and higher system.


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