Ubuntu, Apache, Node.js, MySQL, SAP ABAP, SAP UI5 …
SAP released the SAP ABAP Platform 1909 as Developer Edition in February 2021 and provides the ABAP Platform on SAP HANA 2.0 as a Docker image. This blog post explains how you install the SAP ABAP Platform 1909, Developer Edition, on a Ubuntu VirtualBox guest machine and access it from another one. The second Ubuntu VirtualBox guest machine contains Eclipse and the SAP GUI for Java.
One development tool for SAP ABAP developers is Eclipse with plugins like the ABAP Development Tools (ADT) and the belonging abapGit. This blog post gives an overview how you set your ABAP development environment up on Ubuntu 20.04 to connect to SAP On-premise and/or Cloud Platform.
As a career changer I had hardly any experience with setting up basic development systems, and that is the reason, why I understand the huge challenge which programming newbies often have. I want to explain which basic development system I use and why.
