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Procedure documentation Creating Enterprise Application DC Projects Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

This creates a project, from which a J2EE application in the form of an EAR file can be generated and deployed.

Prerequisites

The relevant development configuration has been imported. See Importing a Development Configuration.

Procedure

       1.      Choose File ® New ® Project…

       2.      On the left pane of the first wizard page, choose Development Component, and on the right pane, select Development Component Project.

       3.      Choose Next.

       4.      Select the software component to which the development component is to be assigned.

       5.      Choose Next.

       6.      Specify the project:

Attribute

Description

Vendor

Globally unique vendor ID. It is recommended that you derive this name from the Internet domain of the provider (for example, sap.com).

Name

Unique component name. For more information, refer to Structure linkSyntax of naming.  

Caption

Name with which the DC is referred to in visual tools.

Language

Original language of the DC project.

Local Development Component

Flags the DC as a local DC. You should only activate this option if the DC is not to be checked in to the DTR, but only to be created locally. In this case, no assignment is made to a DTR activity.

However, you can assign the local DC to an activity at a later stage in the project processing. 

Sync Used Archives

Select this if you want to add a standard set of DCs to be used to the DC to be created. The relevant DCs are then synchronized from the DTR and listed individually in the new DC project under Used DCs.

Type

Choose J2EE ® Enterprise Application.

       7.      Choose Next.

       8.      Choose Next.

If you want to create the Enterprise Application project without references to any projects, choose Finish instead.

       9.      Select the projects to be referenced.

   10.      Choose Finish.

Result

If you did not reference any projects, you will see something like this in the J2EE DC Explorer:

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If you referenced projects, you will see something like this:

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Related Procedures

Adding Modules to Enterprise Application Projects

Building Enterprise Application DC Projects

Deploying EARs

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