(the content of this post is not related to ADT. As most of my readers use ADT and most probably will come across the problem described here while working with ADT, I am using the ADT context for the post) Eclipse IDE makes ABAP development fun with the ABAP Development Read more…
Recently my ABAP Developer Tools in Eclipse (ADT) stopped working. Well, not ADT failed to start. Eclipse failed to start. All I got was an error message when I tried to start Eclipse: “The Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate is companion shared library”. Root Cause Judging from the Read more…
SAP’s Business Application Studio is based on Theia. Several plugins for Fiori development are released by SAP to the VS Code marketplace. This means that it is possible to use these in Eclipse Theia. As written previously, this is only technically possible, as the VS Code marketplace TOU does not Read more…
After installing Eclipse Theia Blueprint or building your own Theia application, what you have is a modern IDE, ready to be used to develop a wide range of applications. It won’t be fun, as the included list of plugins is empty. You’d need to do a lot of manual work Read more…
Eclipse Theia is a modern cloud and desktop IDE platform. It allows you to build your own IDE application. What Theia offers is not a ready-to-run IDE, but a platform to build an IDE for desktop or cloud that can be adopted to match your personal or company requirements. In Read more…
Visual Studio Code from Microsoft is currently one of the most used IDEs by developers. It is fast, available for all platforms and can be used for almost all programming languages (hello ADT). It can be extended easily via plugins. Microsoft offers a central place to install plugins from: a Read more…
SonarQube is not only good in telling you that you have a tab indentation problem, but also shows that you have a lot of white spaces that make no sense: trailing white spaces at the end of a line. How do you get rid of these in Eclipse? You can Read more…
When you decide to analyze your source code with a quality tool like SonarQube, sooner or later you will get messages about trailing white spaces or to replace tab with white spaces. The severity is minor and if you now use tab or white space for indentation has no effect Read more…
NWDS 7.3/7.4 uses the update site concept of Eclipse. This makes it easier to update NWDS as an updated component only needs to be updated at the central update site. No need to distribute a whole NWDS installation package to the developers. The NWDS update site even includes a zip Read more…
Note: 1st published at SCN on 20.4.2012 Note 2: this plugin is not anymore valid. The blog is from 2012! Sonar comes with a killer feature: Eclipse integration. This does not only mean that there is an Eclipse perspective available, but Sonar findings can be used with Mylyn. Sonar Read more…