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Jul 13, 2006 at 01:56 PM

NWDS on linux

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Well there has been a lot of posts regarding getting SAP products to work on Linux, and even more posts politely asking SAP to start supporting Linux.

We obviously can't get SAP to support Linux, if we could they would have done so by now. What we can do is to make workaround where applicable.

I'll ask all you Linux fans to post here in this tread what you have done to use you favourite Linux distribution in stead of Windows. I'll start.

I mainly develop portal applications, and one lucky thing about portal applications is that they're pretty much self contained. I have developed a ANT build script compatible with both ant 1.5 and 1.6 meaning that it'll work with the embedded ant of both NWDS and Eclipse 3.2. This build script can do all the tasks of the portal plugin in NWDS. I can't give you the entire build script, however i have deployed a smaller version at the DynPagePlus site (http://dynpageplus.sf.net) capable of compiling, building and deploying portal projects. See dynpageplus site for details. You could easily extend this script to create portal components and whatever other stubs you need.

My private build script can generate portal components and services, RFC and JDBC stubs and AXIS webservice clients. It supports continuous integration throug either Continuum or Anthill OS.

I also published a maven 1.1 plugin capable of handling portal projects, so if you like maven style project management, this is also a possibility.

I like to help you generating your ant scripts if you need.

Now lets hear your story.

Best regards

Thomas Bentzen