Sorry, but in order for me to speed up in picking up on MI, may I know what are the things that are needed to be installed??
For example, on my local machine what are the things that I need to install in order to start developing? is there anything that i need to install on the backend system server?
On the local system you should have SAP GUI installed to have access to SAP systems and also Netweaver Developer Studio also needs to be installed to develop client applications that will run on devices.
You also need to install the mi client on the local system to test the development that has been done.
On the backend system there is nothing that needs to be explicitly installed, but you should necessary BAPIs that will be used by the middleware for development of smart sync applications.
You should have J2ee stack installed for the middleare for deployement related activities.
Just to clarify, actually I do not need anything to be explicitly installed, the things installed will be just like what we need when developing java web dynpro applications right? Just that i need to configure the MI-plugin for my netweaver studio right?
By the way, where can i get the MI client for installation?
For running a MI application, you should have a J2EE server for administration and ABAP server data transfer, deployment and so on. It is not just like developing a WD applicaiton. If you have installed NetWeaver Dev Studio, then you dont require a separate plugin since this is already present. If you have Eclipse IDE, then you can download MDK plugin from <a href="https://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/601ebf90-0201-0010-eda9-ea7d7d95f38c">here</a>. To download MI Installation navigate to the following URLs.
Thanks for your reply.. I have downloaded the MI CLIENT 7.00 SP09 and Patch for MI CLIENT 7.00 SP09 as my NWDS is SP09.. did i download the right thing?
Is there any guide on installing the MI Client on my local machine?
The first post from Sivakumar you can see some links to documents. These documents will help you in setting up the client and NWDS. Also MI Client is like a normal setup file. Just install it and after installation you need to create a user on the inital screen and same user must exist in mi middleware. Then login to the clien with this user name and password. Goto settings link and mention the middleware you want to connet to. Then come back to home page and synchronise to get device id.
Yes you downloaded the right thing. Refer to the MI Installation guide available in http://service.sap.com/instguides and then navigate to
->SAP NetWeaver -> SAP NetWeaver 2004 -> Installation ->SAP MI -> Installation Guide - SAP MI 2.5 SPS20 (New Technology). Though this is for MI 2.5, you can still refer to the same.
But for the MI Client that i have downloaded, there isn't any executable file (.exe) like normal setup file. Its a zip file and inside there are 3 folders (META-INF, DEPLOYARCHIVES, BUILDARCHIVES).. and inside the DEPLOYARCHIVES folder, the files are all .sda files.. and in the BUILDARCHIVES folder, the files are all .zip file... therefore i'm not too sure how do i go about installing the MI Client..
Good to know you were able to find all the stuff you required. Just a few inputs for your landscape. Instead of using 7.0 SPs09 which is more than a year old, you can use the latest SPs i.e. SPs12 since we have done a lot of stabilization and major performance improvements in SPs10 and SPs12. So i suggest you to use this SPs12 instead of 09. Rest of the landscape is fine.
Thanks.. Just to double check with you, I think i install Netweaver 2004s SR2.. This should be the lastest version for NWDS rite? But when i open my NWDS i saw the version is 7.0.09... is this the right version for NW2004s SR2?
Btw, from the MI installation guide, there is a part about reports for scheduling background job and the procedure on scheduling background jobs...
I don't really understand this portion.. Would you be able to explain to me?
There are some reports which needs to be scheduled for middleware to process requests. In case of generic sync/smart sync applications, for asynchronous processing, we need to schedule a report which picks data from the inbound i.e from client process it and place it back in the outbound. Also there is another which we need to schedule is the distributor, which prepares data from the middleware and places in the outbound for the client to pick it up. This is relevant to smart sync apps.
Thanks for the explanation.. But where do I get these reports? are there already available in the system? or do i have to used abap to code the program out?
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