Creating the Workspaces 

Use

To set up the Software Change Management process, you must create two workspaces in the Design Time Repository (DTR). One workspace is used for new developments, and the other for consolidating development levels.

The repository structure is created in the DTR by the administrator. This must be done before local development work starts.

Prerequisites

To work with the DTR in the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio, you must first configure a DTR client.

Workspace Structure

We recommend that you create all workspaces that you need for your development work in a shared projects folder in the root directory of the DTR (at the same level as the system folder, which is created automatically by the DTR, and must not be used).

Under the projects folder, create a workspace folder for each of your development projects and give it the name of the project or application. This level is not intended for the projects that a developer creates in the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio; instead, enter the projects from a higher planning level, where more than one developer is working.

If you develop your own applications and implement them in a production environment, then you will require a release cycle. Once you have started to use the first release of your application productively, you will want to develop functions for the next release. However, at the same time you need to correct any errors in the production release and make minor modifications. This means that you need separate workspaces for the administration of the various source code states of each project and release. Therefore, we recommend that you create a workspace folder for each release under the project workspace folder.

Under each release folder, create a dev workspace for development work and a cons workspace for consolidation.

A workspace and project structure defined in this way makes it easier for you to implement a complete application state in a production environment, since all source code and metadata for the application is located in one DTR workspace.

The following is a summary of our recommended workspace structure in the DTR:

DTR Root (DTR root directory)

·        projects (workspace folder)

¡        project_name (workspace folder)

§         release (workspace folder)

·         dev (workspace)

·         cons (workspace)

The structure nodes projects, project_name and release are workspace folders that provide a structure for the project above the actual workspaces, dev and cons.

For a description of how to create the structure with the command line client, see Creating Workspace Folders and Workspaces. Alternatively, you can use the DTR Administrator Plug-In.

A servlet project with the name calculator could be structured as shown below.