A complementary installation guide to openSAP “Developing Java-Based Apps on SAP HANA Cloud Platform” MOOC (Week 1) – PART 1

Introduction : A lot of participants had trouble (including myself) doing the initial setup as the installation step was referred to another course and there were quite some points where troubleshooting was needed. This documents aims at smoothening out those rough edges for people who are not too savvy with the mentioned tools yet. Also a lot of screenshots make it much easy to understand.

Date created : 14.09.2016

Environment : 64 bit Windows 10 laptop. Take care of appropriate versions if you are using a Apple device or a 32 bit machine.

Note for the readers : This document is a work in progress. I will try to iteratively enhance it. Do let me know if you have any suggestions or find something that should be covered and the same will be accomodated in the document.

This is Part  1 of a 2 part series. You  can find Part 2 here.

A complementary installation guide to openSAP “Developing Java-Based Apps on SAP HANA Cloud Platform” MOOC (Week 1) – PART 2

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-75212

Create a free SAP Hana Cloud Platform Trial Account

After registration your should get a user name which should be similar to “p123456” and your account name will be “p123456trial” where 123456 will be some other number.

Download JDK and set JAVA_HOME and PATH environment variables.

Set Environment Variables JAVA_HOME and PATH

Test that the environment variables JAVA_HOME and PATH are set properly by echo command on CMD.

Please note:

JAVA_HOME = Java main folder

PATH = path till bin inside Java main folder

echo %JAVA_HOME%

echo %PATH%

Test that Java is available on CMD

Download Eclipse Mars/Neon

In my case the latest Eclipse Neon was giving trouble so I just switched to older Eclipse Mars that I already had.

Run Eclipse, choose workspace location. In my case I kept my workspace within my Eclipse folder in case I use more than one Eclipse on my system.

Install the plugins. This takes a couple of minutes.

Same process as for the last two plugins. This takes a couple of minutes.

We need Maven too but we do not need to install the plugin as it comes preinstalled with Eclipse for J2EE.

GIT Configuration

Maven User Settings

The settings.xml file has to be created the first time under the .m2 directory.

Remove the comments when copying xml.

You can remove the proxies tag and its contents if you are not using a proxy.

Or you can write false in the <active> tag.

//Start of settings.xml

<settings xmlns=“http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0“

  xmlns:xsi=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance“

  xsi:schemaLocation=“http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd“>

   <localRepository>${user.home}/.m2/repository</localRepository>

   <profiles>

        <profile>

             <id>development</id>

             <activation>

                  <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>

             </activation>

             <properties>

             </properties>

        </profile>

   </profiles>

   <proxies>

        <proxy>

             <active>true</active>

             <protocol>http</protocol>

             <host>proxy</host>

             <port>8080</port>

        </proxy>

   </proxies>

   </settings>

//End of settings.xml

Set JDK in Eclipse. This steps avoids problem with Maven build process later.

NOTE : This step is important. If not done, your maven build will fail in later steps.

Download the following files.

And setup these as Server Runtime Environments

Clone the GIT repository in the EGit perspective in Eclipse.

Copy (CTRL + C) the ESPM Git Repository Path (*) above and right click in the Git perspective

Just click Next

Next again, no rocket science involved so far. Just check that all branches are selected.

Finish the wizard. This takes a couple of minutes.

AHOY ! Repository cloned. You can see the branches too as we selected in the wizard.

Import existing Maven project in J2EE Perspective

Select the ESPM project in Git folder hierarchy and finish the wizard. This takes a couple of minutes.
It should be something like :

C:\Users\<username>\git\cloud-espm-V2

Select ESPM main project -> Right click -> Maven -> Maven Update Project

Select ESPM main project -> Right click -> Run As -> Maven build…

Enter “clean install” in Goals and then Run. This takes a couple of minutes.

This should ideally result into 3 SUCCESS messages

Right click on Project Explorer and refresh and you would see that a new deploy folder is created with a .war file inside post build process.

We will deploy this .war file in the Hana Cloud Platform Cockpit in the Java Applications area

For some reason SCN is not allowing me to add more screenshots so I will have to continue in another document.

This is Part  1 of a 2 part series. You  can find Part 2 here.

A complementary installation guide to openSAP “Developing Java-Based Apps on SAP HANA Cloud Platform” MOOC (Week 1) – PART 2

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-75212