Problems with build

[Former Member]

Hi all,

We have been making local DCs for our applications all this while and are now attempting the use of the JDI. As give in the tutorials for mirgating existing local DCs to the DTR, we created a DC, copied all the contents inside the "packages" directory of the local DC into the new DC and added the files to the DTR. When attempting to build, we get errors that certain imports are not found. These are in "com.sap.security.api.jar" and "servlet.jar". Now these files are regular and are supposed to be referenced the CBS for build. For whatever reason, it doesn't find them. Now how do I specify these in the build path?

I know this is a regular topic and I found plenty of info for this. The most favoured solution is to create an External Library DC, add the jar files to its public part and reference it in the Web Dynpro. But I am using NWDS Version: 2.0.9 and this doesn't have any option of an External Library DC. But I found a J2EE Server Component DC. I found a tutorial for adding jars in the public path of this DC, but this requires configuration in server.xml which I did not find after creating the project.

What am I missing?...a lot of things I guess! Please help.

Nirav

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Nirav,

These are probably all DCs from the 3 base SC's. Browse to the DC Metadata -> DC Definition -> Used DCs of the Local Development DCs to see the list of required DCs. Now add these same DCs as used DCs in your Development Configuration DCs.

If you do not see any DCs inside the 3 base SC's you need to check them in and import them into the Development stage first in the CMS Transport Studio.

Regards,

Pascal

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Hi Pascal,

All the 3 base SCs are showing up and I have confirmed that these dont have these 2 jars....or I cant find them. Please tell me if you can.

Also, I want to try creating a library DC and add jars to this, but when I create a new library project, I dont see any server node for the provider.xml. How do I do this?

Regards,

Nirav

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

As I said look for the Used DCs defined in your Local Development DCs. The jars are contained in the DCs, but the DCs don't necessarily have the same names as the jars within them.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Done...thanks a million...you are a life saver

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Pascal,

What if the jar was not in any of the 3 base SCs. Then how would you go about it?

Nirav

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Create an External Library DC. If that's not available in the NWDI/NWDS release you are using, I strongly recommend to upgrade both of them.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Pascal,

Sounds stupid, but can I create an external library DC without the help of the NWDS if I know the required package structure and xml configs and expect it to work? Please back your answer with a reason.

Nirav.

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It will only work if your CBS supports it. Therefore, make sure your NWDS has the same level as your NWDI installation. If this is the case at the moment, then you can assume that CBS does not support it: it just not have the required libraries to build that DC type then.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

You also have to check if the build plugin for external libraries is there, i.e. if the SAP_BUILDT in the track were you do development contains the DC "tc/bi/bp/externalarchive". (Which would be referenced by the .dcdef file).

But since this has been supported since SP12 (or even SP11) why do you want or need to do it manually?

Best regards,

Marc

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Marc,

Thats because I am using SP9 and will be while before I upgarde. How did people do this before SP11?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Nirav

This thread contains a potential solution for you , its to do with unzipping the jars to a particular folder and becomes part of the deployable , see the link for the specifics

dirty (but works(I hope))

Regards

Pran

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Thanks Pran, I'll try these.