IDE provisioning

Getting the IDE onto a developer's machine with the required plugins already in it, at a version the team can name. Distinct from editor support, which is what the editor does once it is there: this is the download, the update site, the install and how the result reaches machines a developer does not administer.

Overview

Getting the IDE onto a developer's machine with the SAP plugins already in it, at a version the team can name. Distinct from editor support, which is what the editor does once it is there: this is the download, the update site, the install and how the result reaches machines a developer does not administer.

SAP SHIPS

SAP publishes ABAP Development Tools as an Eclipse update site with a procedure beside it: get an Eclipse installation, open Help > Install New Software, enter https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/latest, select ABAP Development Tools. The same page states the Eclipse releases, the JRE version and the operating systems the tools are supported on.

Not covered: At an Eclipse the reader supplies. The first step of the procedure is to obtain an Eclipse package, and the features are added to it afterwards from the update site, once per machine and from that machine.

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THE COMMUNITY ADDS

Scripted installs that run that procedure for the developer: adt-bundle-builder runs it once with the Eclipse p2 director and ships the result as a zip, the shape the install takes when the machines are Citrix sessions or laptops someone else administers, and eclipsadt-o-mat is a PowerShell wizard that downloads Eclipse, installs ADT and adds the ADT plugins a developer picks from a catalog.

eclipsADT-o-mat personal-application-studio adt-bundle-builder

Artifacts4

Group by4 of 4 artifacts

ArtifactSignals

Build tools1

adt-bundle-builderWindows build packaging Eclipse with ADT as a portable IDE

Signals

none

CLI tools1

eclipsADT-o-matPowerShell wizard installing Eclipse with ADT and plugins

Signals

Functional boundary

Desktop apps1

personal-application-studioTheia distribution with ABAP and UI5 support as a Docker image

Signals

Quiet

IDE extensions1

BASEnvSyncCarries home-directory dotfiles from one BAS dev space to another

Signals

Functional boundary

Details

Coverage

statecore and community, ABAP

assessed2026-09-18

relationshipunassessed

domainDeveloper Experience

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For your agent

Ref: capability:ide-provisioning
JSON: /capabilities/ide-provisioning.json
MCP: Connecting an agent