CoPilot For Eclipse - The Joule Alternative

GitHub CoPilot works alongside you in the Eclipse Editor. It autogenerates code suggestions, provides correction syntax.

Free version includes:

50 agent mode or chat requests per month

2,000 completions per month

Access to Haiku 4.5, GPT-5 mini, and more

Copilot CLI

Getting started with Copilot. 

Open Eclipse Marketplace

Search for Copilot and Install Copilot4Eclipse

Restart and a new menu item will appear

Click Copy Code and Open

Paste the code when prompted

This will successfully connect the IDE to Copilot.

Now that we have added Copilot to Eclipse, let us configure it for sap abap. Go to Copilot > Preferences

Ensure ABAP is selected, if not, select it and save.

Let us test the automatic code generation by creating a class.

Create a class.

When creating the method the comment and methods are auto generated.

Press tab to add the auto generated codes

The class has some errors. Lets use the chat panel to get answers. From the menu open chat panel.

In the chat panel the class is automatically added. Lets ask in the chat to fix the code.

The Copilot recognizes the error and also performs the requested operation. It generates the correct code which can be copy pasted.

The generated code has some issues because the return type is not fully typed.

It returned a fix for this.

Well, the code is not perfect and there are restrictions of using SPFLI in trial server.

However, we were successfully able to use Copilot in Eclipse for free. 

Thanks.