Do i have to install hybris in my local machine to create hybris project in eclipse?

[former_member293029]

Hi Experts,

I am an ABAP developer. I am taking on a challenge to develop a hybris extension and i have some java experience. I am trying to set up hybris IDE in eclipse. I installed the hybris tools in eclipse. However, i am not sure where i can get the hybris bin files to create hybris project. My question here is, do i have to install hybris in my local machine to get the hybris files or is it possible to connect to my company's hybris url to create a hybris project?

Martin

[former_member620692 · Accepted solution]

Hi Martin Arulraj - You need to install hybris in your local machine. The simplest installation is without any non-platform extensions and for this, you just need to unzip the hybris distribution zip and execute the following commands on the Linux/Mac terminal from hybris/bin/platform directory:

1. First, you need to set the ant environment using . ./setantenv.sh command.
2. Then you need to execute ant which will ask you if you want to install for development [default] or production. You need to press enter to select development.

At this point of time, if you start your hybris server by using ./hybrisserver.sh command, the server will be started with only platform extensions (i.e. the extensions inside hybris/bin/platform/ext directory). However, it is good enough to navigate through hAC (hybris Admin Console) tabs and understand a few things. The URL of hAC is https://localhost:9002 and login credentials are User ID: admin and Password: nimda

After the initial peek into hAC, you can initialize your hybris installation, either from hAC (Platform >> Initialization) or on Linux/Mac terminal by using ant initialize command from hybris/bin/platform directory and then you will able to see the hybris type system (data model) and the database tables in hAC.

Now, coming to the point, how you will import the hybris project inside eclipse, all you need to do is to provide the path to hybris/bin/platform folder while importing with the help of hybris plugin (tool). That's it!

In order to create an extension, you need to execute ant extgen command from hybris/bin/platform directory. Once the extension is created, you need to register it with the build system by putting its name into hybris/config/localextensions.xml so that whenever you will write new code in your extension and build it by executing ant command, the code will be picked by the build system.

Once you are confident to explore further, you can choose a recipe to install an accelerator. Corresponding to different types of commerce models (e.g. B2C, B2B etc.) and extended features, there are different recipes for installing the accelerators. If you are a beginner, you can use B2C recipe. Use ./install.bat -r b2c_acc initialize command from installer directory to install a B2C accelerator.

Note: if you are using Windows system (instead of Linux/Mac), the commands will be setantenv.bat, hybrisserver.bat, and install.bat.

Note: once you have tested your extension, you need to push it to your CI/CD pipeline as per the DevOps process of your project/team/organization. Please check about this process with other developers in your project/team/organization because there is no standard process for it; every project/team/organization has its custom process for this.

[former_member293029]

Hi Arvind,

Thanks for the detailed explanation. But i do have one more question. How do i add my extension from my localhost to the customer hybris installation?

Thanks,

Martin