Wednesday, March 18, 2026

How to install ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse

Step 1 Download and run Eclipse IDE from https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/

Step 2: Select Eclipse for Java



Step 3: Download and Install via installer or download zip package and extract into a folder.

Step 4: Go to eclipse folder and start eclipse.exe

Step 5: Create a workspace and launch



Step 6: Add the ADT Plug-in to Eclipse. Click Help > Install New Software



Step 7: Enter the latest ADT URL https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/latest in the Work with section, press enter, select ABAP Development Tools and click Next >.


Step 8: Select as shown and click Next



Step 9: Accept and Click Finish



Step 10: Trust the Selected



Step 11: After installation is complete it will ask to restart Eclipse. Installation will download from Internet so it will take some time.




Step 12: Now ADT is installed. Switch to the ABAP perspective. Therefore select Window > Perspective > Other Perspective > Other.



Step 13: Select ABAP perspective



Step 14: The lastest ABAP Perspective will open and it will show Joule integrated in the perspective



Step 15: Lets sign in to HANA Trial Cockpit



Step 16: In Eclipse Open Cloud Project



Step 17: It will ask for the Service Instance URL


Step 18: To get the URL we need to service key. First go to https://cockpit.hanatrial.ondemand.com/trial/#/home/trial and login to your trial account (if not already done)



Step 19: Click the subaccount



Step 20: Under Cloud Foundry there will be instance for abap (already created earlier)



Step 21: Select the credentials



Step 22: Copy the URL from the Form. It is also present in the JSON



Step 23: Paste the URL in Eclipse



Step 24: Open Login Page via browser




Step 25: It will login autoatically as we have already logged into HANA Trial account via browser.




Step 26: Click Finish




Step 27: After login we can see the main package and user packages




Step 28: Here we can create our own package and start development. Right Click ZLOCAL, New > ABAP Package.




Step 29: Our package is created




Step 30: Right click on the package or select from the menu to create ABAP Repository Objects



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