Overview

Eclipse enables users to develop Java EE applications via the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) project. The WTP project is vendor neutral and allows the development of applications towards different application servers, called server runtime environments, provided by the vendors. The integration between a specific server runtime environment and Eclipse is called server adapter.

The SAP NetWeaver Server Adapter for Eclipse implements a server runtime environment for the SAP NetWeaver Application Server. It enables the development of Java EE applications for the SAP NetWeaver Application Server from within any IDE based on Eclipse WTP.

Supportability Matrix

	Eclipse Galileo	Eclipse Ganymede	Eclipse Europa
SAP NetWeaver CE 7.2
EHP1 for SAP NetWeaver CE/PI 7.1
SAP NetWeaver CE/PI 7.1
SAP NetWeaver 7.0

Legend:
  supported, no problems
  supported, some problems
  support planned, but not tested yet
  support not planned

History

0.5.2 - November 12, 2009

• improved logging and message dialog when the Deploy Web Service application is not available
• split CE/PI runtimes definitions - solves the Unbound Server Library problem
• added validation for runtime names - no \ / * : ? " <> | characters are allowed
• add validation for instance number
• add validation if the server has been pinged

0.5.1 - October 12, 2009

• Fixed SAP Netweaver product naming.
• Better suggestion for server host when the runtime location is given with UNC path.

0.5 - September 30, 2009

• Added support for SAP NetWeaver CE/PI 7.1 and EHP1 for SAP NetWeaver CE/PI 7.1.
• Added support for Eclipse Galileo and Eclipse Europa.
• New option when creating new runtime - enables caching of the classpath JARs in the workspace's .metadata folder. This improves performance when the SAP NetWeaver installation is on a remote host and the network is slow.
• Installation instructions automatically open when Deploy Web Service is not installed. 
• Several connectivity bugs fixed.

0.4.2 - August 25, 2009

• Bugfixes to successfully connect to the SAP NetWeaver server in some complex network configurations.
• Start/stop timeouts are increased to meet heavier SAP NetWeaver installations.
• Namespace refactoring of the Web Service Proxy clients to meet better the changed infrastructure.

0.4.1 - July 30, 2009

• The first publicly available release.
• Support for Eclipse Ganymede and SAP NetWeaver CE 7.2.
• Support for J2EE 1.4 and Java EE 5 applications.
• Server lifecycle operations implemented:
  • start, stop, restart
  • enable debugging, disable debugging
• Publish operations implemented:
  • deploy and undeploy of EAR archives
• Basic server editor capabilities.