Ubuntu, Apache, Node.js, MySQL, SAP ABAP, SAP UI5 …
The version control system git is free, offers lots of possibilities, and is open source. Newbies need some time to understand git and to know the most important git commands for the daily work. Unfortunately, that is sometimes not enough, and that is why this blog post bundles helpful information around git.
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.
“PREFIX: Unexpected package naming (…) you might switch to FULL folder logic”. This error occurred when I was trying to push a package with sub packages via abapGit from the SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment (SCP) to GitHub.
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.
