First, I want to provide an overview of what is necessary in order to create a ABAP development tool plug-in that invokes some back end functionality.
The idea behind this blog series is twofold. The third part will focus on releasing the plugin using github. In the first one I’ll explain the eclipse side of the plug-in, in the second part ( Creating a ABAP in Eclipse plug-in using the ADT SDK – Part 2) the ABAP side. The plug-in that I’ve developed enable the creation of a transport of copies with just one click. In this blog series I’ll show how I extended the transport organizer view of the ABAP development tools. consequently, the usability is far from perfect. While such a report simplifies the creation of transports of copies it is not integrated into the development environment. As a consequence custom transactions or reports are usually used to simplify the creation of transports of copies. Andreas Wiegensteins blog DSAG Best Practice Guideline for ABAP Development now available in English), creating transports of copies is quite cumbersome. by the German SAP User Group (DSAG) in its development best practices guide line (cf. While the usage of transports of copies is recommended e.g. One feature that is missing in the the SE80 as well as in the ABAP development tools is an simple way to create transports of copies. Therefore, the SDK enables developers to enhance the development environment with new functionality or missing features. For the first time it is possible to easily extend the development environment provided by SAP.
First version: SDK for ABAP development tools) was a major change to the way SAP provides developer tools. In my point of view the release of the SDK for the ABAP development tools (cf.