How to set up NWDS or Eclipse without MDK
Every person has its own way of setting up its developement environment. There is no ideal set up, but some are easier to maintain than others.
Mobile Development Kit has some useful features such as precompiling JSPs and building a WAR file for you, but it is slow when it comes to development cycles. Over my years at SAP, I understood that a couple of Ant scripts and a well set up Eclipse can be really more powerful than the MDK. Here is how!
Mobile Development Kit has some useful features such as precompiling JSPs and building a WAR file for you, but it is slow when it comes to development cycles. Over my years at SAP, I understood that a couple of Ant scripts and a well set up Eclipse can be really more powerful than the MDK. Here is how!
A look at the SAP MTR Functionality
SAP MTR allows
employees to capture their travel expenses
in a disconnected mode and send the data to the back-end system once a connection is
established, also known as synchronization.
In both SAP MTS and MTR, the back-end
application logic is mirrored with the offline
application because the business logic from
the back end was recoded for the mobile
device. You can access recorded SAP MTR
data in the back end as soon as the synchronization
is over. Depending on the amount
of data you are loading, the synchronization
takes between 30 seconds and five minutes
to complete. SAP MTR allows users to
choose which trips should be synchronized,
which is useful if some incomplete expense
reports were created offline and are not
ready to be sent to the backend yet.