Hi,

for a CodeJam on ABAP on Eclipse, i have installed ADT 2.19.

Now i'm trying to connect an ABAP system to ADT/Eclipse.

I don't have a useful ABAP system in my SAP Logon, but is there a trial version i can install for this use ?

The requirements for ADT2.19 are

SAP NetWeaver 7.31 SP4 and higher

SAP NetWeaver 7.40 SP5

with kind regards,
Hans

Hello,

I have seen several blogs about ABAP in Eclipse. The prerequisites always mention Eclipse release 3.6 or 3.7.

I have noticed that the HANA Studion is based on  Eclipse 3.8.

Can I install the ABAP for Eclipse Plugin in the HANA Studio or do I have to install a second IDE with the version 3.6 or 3.7?

Thanks,

Michael

Hi Experts,

I want to create a layout in SAPUI5 using eclipse. The layout would be like below:

How to make this layout SAPUI5 as I am new in this area. Kindly provide some code sample to make layout like that.

Thanks & Regards,

Arindam Samanta.

Hello,

I would like to go to the translation of a message or a parameter or a select-option. Can this be done directly in AiE somehow, or do I have to do that still in the SAP gui?

If there is no implementation in AiE, is it possible to do the translation in separate view that shows up after you right click like on the object you want to translate and in the context menu you select Show in --> Translate.

Best regards

Volker

Hi experts,

I'm developing ABAP in eclipse for some time without facing any problems.

Recently, our basis has changed the logon from User/Password to SingleSignOn (much to my enjoy). Unfortunately, since we're using SingleSignOn we can no longer connect to the systems using eclipse.

As soon as I try to connect, the following error occurs:

Exception Stack Trace:

com.sap.adt.communication.exceptions.CommunicationException: CPIC-CALL: 'CMRCV'

null

  at com.sap.adt.communication.internal.jco.dispatcher.JCoRequestDispatcher.handleJcoException(JCoRequestDispatcher.java:244)

  at com.sap.adt.communication.internal.jco.dispatcher.JCoRequestDispatcher.dispatch(JCoRequestDispatcher.java:169)

  at com.sap.adt.communication.internal.session.SystemSession.sendRequest(SystemSession.java:168)

  at com.sap.adt.communication.internal.resources.RestResource.invoke(RestResource.java:136)

  at com.sap.adt.communication.internal.resources.RestResource.get(RestResource.java:61)

  at com.sap.adt.compatibility.internal.graph.provider.GraphProviderFactory.getGraphProvider(GraphProviderFactory.java:52)

  at com.sap.adt.compatibility.base.internal.graph.provider.GraphAnalyzer.processExtensionPointGraphProviders(GraphAnalyzer.java:275)

  at com.sap.adt.compatibility.base.internal.graph.provider.GraphAnalyzer.isNodeAvailable(GraphAnalyzer.java:172)

  at com.sap.adt.compatibility.base.internal.graph.provider.GraphAnalyzerProxy.isNodeAvailable(GraphAnalyzerProxy.java:124)

  at com.sap.adt.compatibility.base.internal.graph.provider.GraphAnalyzerProxy.verifyIsLoaded(GraphAnalyzerProxy.java:89)

  at com.sap.adt.compatibility.base.internal.graph.provider.GraphAnalyzerProxy.getGraphAnalyzer(GraphAnalyzerProxy.java:58)

  at com.sap.adt.compatibility.base.internal.Activator.getCompatibilityGraphAnalyzer(Activator.java:92)

  at com.sap.adt.compatibility.internal.graph.analyzer.CompatibilityGraphAnalyzer.<init>(CompatibilityGraphAnalyzer.java:21)

  at com.sap.adt.compatibility.internal.graph.analyzer.CompatibilityGraphAnalyzer.<init>(CompatibilityGraphAnalyzer.java:17)

  at com.sap.adt.compatibility.internal.Activator.getCompatibilityGraphAnalyzer(Activator.java:152)

  at com.sap.adt.destinations.internal.logon.AdtLogonService$1.runInternal(AdtLogonService.java:183)

  at com.sap.adt.communication.util.CancelableBlockingJob$BlockingJob.run(CancelableBlockingJob.java:195)

  at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:53)

Caused by: com.sap.conn.jco.JCoException: (107) JCO_ERROR_PROTOCOL: CPIC-CALL: 'CMRCV'

null

  at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.MiddlewareJavaRfc.generateJCoException(MiddlewareJavaRfc.java:664)

  at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.MiddlewareJavaRfc$JavaRfcClient.connect(MiddlewareJavaRfc.java:1362)

  at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.ClientConnection.connect(ClientConnection.java:736)

  at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.RepositoryConnection.connect(RepositoryConnection.java:48)

  at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.PoolingFactory.init(PoolingFactory.java:107)

  at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.ConnectionManager.createFactory(ConnectionManager.java:316)

  at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.DefaultConnectionManager.createFactory(DefaultConnectionManager.java:46)

  at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.ConnectionManager.getFactory(ConnectionManager.java:290)

  at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.RfcDestination.getSystemID(RfcDestination.java:885)

  at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.RepositoryManager.getRepository(RepositoryManager.java:31)

  at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.RfcDestination.getRepository(RfcDestination.java:941)

  at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.RfcDestination.getRepository(RfcDestination.java:33)

  at com.sap.adt.communication.internal.jco.util.JCoFunctionBuilder.createFunctionBuilder(JCoFunctionBuilder.java:58)

  at com.sap.adt.communication.internal.jco.dispatcher.JCoRequestDispatcherRestProtocolStrategy.createFunctionBuilder(JCoRequestDispatcherRestProtocolStrategy.java:132)

  at com.sap.adt.communication.internal.jco.dispatcher.JCoRequestDispatcherRestProtocolStrategy.createRequestFunction(JCoRequestDispatcherRestProtocolStrategy.java:87)

  at com.sap.adt.communication.internal.jco.dispatcher.JCoFunctionExecutor$1.createServiceRequest(JCoFunctionExecutor.java:217)

  at com.sap.adt.communication.internal.jco.dispatcher.JCoFunctionExecutor.runInternal(JCoFunctionExecutor.java:112)

  ... 2 more

Caused by: RfcException: [null]

    message: CPIC-CALL: 'CMRCV'

null

    Return code: RFC_FAILURE(1)

    error group: 107

    key: RFC_ERROR_PROTOCOL

  at com.sap.conn.rfc.api.RfcApi.RfcOpen(RfcApi.java:161)

  at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.MiddlewareJavaRfc$JavaRfcClient.connect(MiddlewareJavaRfc.java:1329)

  ... 17 more

Caused by:

>RfcIoException:

    message: CPIC-CALL: 'CMRCV'

null

    Return code: RFCIO_ERROR_NO_DATA(8)<

  at com.sap.conn.rfc.engine.RfcIoOpenCntl.ab_rfclisten(RfcIoOpenCntl.java:1374)

  at com.sap.conn.rfc.api.RfcApi.RfcOpen(RfcApi.java:149)

  ... 18 more

Session Data

As soon as I change the logon method in the SAP GUI to manual connection (Username/Password), I can connect to the systems using eclipse without any problems.

My searches in the SCN does not result in any relevant topics. So I hope that you can provide me some additional information to use the combination Eclipse and SSO.

Regards

Holger

Challenge

With the availability of the SAP HANA platform there has been a paradigm shift in the way business applications are developed at SAP. The rule-of-thumb is simple: Do as much as you can in the database to get the best performance. This is also true for the underlying data models of the business applications.

Until now, data modeling in ABAP typically involved organizing your data in database tables/views and often providing some additional high-level services for the applications using suitable ABAP frameworks. It stands to reason that to enable real-time businesses some of these services should ideally also be brought closer to the data(base).

This presents several challenges. High quality data models should provide a single definition and format for the data. They should be clear and unambiguous, reusable and flexible, even extensible. So how can you capture the semantics of the data model in the database so that the model can be easily reused by different consumers, e.g. by OData clients and by OLAP tools? How can you extend the meta model to service your applications? Impossible, you say?  Maybe, if we didn't have Core Data Services (CDS).

Solution

CDS simplifies and harmonizes the way you define and consume your data models, regardless of the consumption technology. Technically, it is an enhancement of SQL which provides you with a data definition language (DDL) for defining semantically rich database tables/views (CDS entities) and user-defined types in the database. The enhancements include:

• Annotations to enrich the data models with additional (domain specific) metadata
• Associations on a conceptual level, replacing joins with simple path expressions in queries
• Expressions used for calculations and queries in the data model

CDS entities and their metadata are extensible and optimally integrated into the ABAP Data Dictionary and the ABAP language.

CDS is supported natively in both the ABAP and the HANA Platforms! In fact, CDS is (in my opinion) the most ambitious and exciting SAP development in the area of data modeling in recent years. You can finally define and consume your data models in the same way (syntax, behaviour, etc.) regardless of the SAP technology platform (ABAP or HANA). Unwantedly the phrase: "One Data Model to rule them all" always comes to mind when I think of CDS.

CDS Support in SAP NW ABAP 7.4 SP5

With SAP NW ABAP 7.4 SP5 the first instalment of CDS support in ABAP has been delivered. This provides you with advanced viewbuilding features which you can use to optimize your data models.

Prerequisite is the ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse (ADT) 2.19 since the new CDS tooling is only available in ABAP in Eclipse.

Let's take a look at some of these new features ABAP in Eclipse.

Create a new DDL source file

You can create a new DDL source in ABAP in Eclipse via File > New > Other ... > ABAP > DDL Source

View definition

Your new DDL source is opened in a text editor in ABAP in Eclipse. Initially the source is empty. Using the DEFINE VIEW statement you can define your CDS view entity.

View entities are defined as selects from one or more datasources. Datasources can be other view entities, database tables or classical DDIC views (SE11 views). The select list ist defined in curly brackets after the from clause (great for code completion!). The elements in the select list are separated by a comma. The code snippet above defines a simple view entity called SalesOrder on the database table SNWD_SO. SNWD_SO contains the sales orders data.

Currently you can only define one CDS entity per DDL source.

Joining data sources

You can combine records from two or more data sources using join clauses. You can also specify aliases for the datasources.

In addition to INNER JOIN you can also model a LEFT OUTER JOIN, RIGHT OUTER JOIN, UNION and/or UNION ALL.

The comparison operators BETWEEN, =, <>, <, >, <=, >=, NOT and LIKE can be used in the on and where clauses. In addition IS NULL and IS NOT NULL are also valid where-conditions.

Aggregations and SQL functions

CDS also provides support for aggregations (SUM, MIN, MAX, AVG, COUNT), SQL functions (LPAD, SUBSTRING, MOD, CEIL, CAST) and CASE statements in view entities.

In the above example the view selects the business partners with outstanding sales orders which together (SUM) amount to more than EUR 100.000 (HAVING SUM). The outstanding amounts are reported per business partner role (GROUP BY). The codes for the business partner roles are translated to readable text in the database (CASE).

Semantically rich data models

Annotations can be used to add metadata to CDS entities. Annotations specify the properties and semantics of the entity and its behaviour when it is accessed at runtime. This metadata can also be accessed by consumption tools using special APIs. In future, consumers will be able to extend existing view definitions and add their own annotations without having to re-model the data ("One Data Model to rule them all"). Annotations always begin with the @ character.

Above the SAP buffering behaviour is specified using the @AbapCatalog.buffering annotation. Here single record buffering is enabled (prerequisite is that the underlying datasource allows buffering). In addition the element currency_code is defined as a currency key. The element gross_amount is defined as a currency field and the currency key currency_code is assigned to the field.

In every view definition the compulsory annotation @AbapCatalog.sqlViewName must be specified. This annotation specifies the name of the corresponding view in the ABAP Dictionary. CDS entities are integrated into the ABAP Dictionary and ABAP language using the same infrastructure which exists for classical Dictionary views. The CDS entity name (here SalesOrder) can be thought of as an alias for the Dictionary View. The metadata which is specified for the CDS entity, however, can only be accessed via the entity name.

Further information about the supported predefined annotations can be found in the F1 help.

Extensibility

The ABAP Dictionary enhancement concept is also supported in ABAP CDS entites. By using $EXTENSION.* in the select list, all fields that are added as enhancements to the underlying database table or classical DDIC view are automatically added to the CDS entity.

Here any fields which added to the database table SNWD_SO via enhancements, will automatically be added to the view entity. In future, CDS will provide additional features for extending existing CDS entities which will be available on both the ABAP and HANA platforms.

Consuming your CDS entities in ABAP

Once you have saved and activated your DDL source, the DDIC artifacts are created. Consuming your CDS entity is simple: CDS entities can be used in OPEN SQL! You should always use the entity name in your OPEN SQL statements.

SELECT * FROM SalesOrder INTO TABLE itab. "Use entity name

Lifecycle and database support

The best part about DDL sources and CDS entities is that they are managed by ABAP. This means that the entire lifecyle of the CDS entities are controlled by the ABAP Change and Transport System (CTS).

In addition, the SP5 CDS features are "open". This means that your CDS view definitions can be deployed on any database which is supported by SAP.

Summary

Well, that was an attempt to give you a condensed overview of Core Data Services (CDS) in SAP NW ABAP 7.4 SP5. Not easy when you are introducing the next game changer in SAP application development.

To sum it up: CDS provides enhanced view building capabilities to enable you to easily define semantically rich and re-useable data models in the database. The new view building features include new join types, new clauses as well as support for aggregate functions and SQL functions. All these features are "open". The features are provided in a new text editor for DDL sources in ADT 2.19.

But the journey doesn't end here. There will continue to be future CDS feature deliveries in ABAP and even in 7.4 SP5 there is still a lot to tell. We haven't even touched on associations or the cast functionality, not to mention the cool editor features. But that will have to wait for another time (otherwise nobody will read this lengthly blog).

If you can't wait you can get more information by watching Carine's video tutorial ("Building Core Data Services Views in ABAP on SAP HANA"). For more information about the CDS support in the HANA Platform, see the SAP HANA Developer Guide.

Hello folks and welcome to my first Blog about Umap.

Maybe (just maybe) you remember us from last years Demojam during the Teched in Amsterdam where we presented our Open Source UML to Abap Code-generator. If not, you missed a great show, go and check out http://www.uml2abap.org or the videos about the DemoJam

Nevertheless after the Dust settled we started talking to people behind ADT/AiE and came up with a plan to deliver Umap as a Eclipse Plugin for various reasons.

• Simplified installation process (just an Eclipse Updatesite)
• Nicer workflow, instead of having 3 tools (Uml tool, Umap Eclipse Plugin, SAP Backend) just one tool(Eclipse with different Plugins installed)
• Easier to collaborate. Because ADT is pure Java sharing of code is easy(github)

So we rolled up our sleeves and used the Christmas time to deliver the community some goodies, and here it is, our first prototype of the Umap ADT plugin.

cheeromat->cheer( ).

So here is a screenshot of your Umap View(Window->Show View)

Which will open a new View

where you now can drag and drop your UML files. I will provide documentation on the UML specifics at a later stage, please be aware that this is a hobby project besides work and family, so everything is taking it's time.

After you dragged your file onto the view it will be parsed and the contents displayed

You get two buttons one to connect to a specific system(basically all your ADT Abap Projects are listed here) and on to import your stuff.

Because this is a prototype atm we only import into $TMP and there are no checks if a class/interface already exists but that will change in the future.

so after you press import check your local objects and see your abap code

Installation

Get a current version of Eclipse at http://www.eclipse.org/downloads older versions(Juno) should work as well

Install the Abap Development Tools from http://tools.hana.ondemand.com

Install the Umap ADT Plugin from http://www.uml2abap.org/updatesite/repository

And you are ready to go.

Disclaimer:

Please note this project is still very early alpha and we are am not responsible for any system damage or lost coding, so use with care. There will be plenty of bugs, if you are interested in participating or reporting them go to https://github.com/mathiasmaerker/org.uml2abap.adt and/or to https://github.com/michelluther/umap

If you happen to be a maven/tycho specialist please contact me and help us out with the build process

Stay tuned for further updates i case of any questions we are glad to answer them

One last thing, a big Thank you to the ADT Development Team who not only delivered a great product but supported us greatly in the development of the Umap ADT Plugin *thumbs up*

So far

Mathias

I just learned that transaction SAT is retired and should be replaced by the profiling tools in ABAP in Eclipse.

I miss two things and maybe somebody here can help me with it:

1. Connect to a customer system: I want (or actually have to :-> ) to analyze performance traces on a customer system. I don´t see how I can connect my local eclipse to the customer system (STFK or something similar). I ´s it me missing the knowledge the  or is it the profiler lacking this functionality?
2. Smart expansion: SAT has the ability to expand the critical pathes of a call tree (everything greater than e.g. 5% is automatically opened). Actually I would like to do this for a partial tree, but I can not see this even for the complete tree like it is available in SAT.

Thanks for your help,

Bernd

Error faced in adding ABAP for eclipse in HANA studio,  I am adding ABAP for ecplpse 2.7 but facing this message:-

Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.

  Software being installed: ABAP Connectivity and Integration Development Tools 1.0.4 (com.sap.adt.pitools.tlf.feature.group 1.0.4)

  Missing requirement: Enterprise Service Development Tools in ABAP 1.0.4 (com.sap.adt.pitools.feature.group 1.0.4) requires 'org.eclipse.graphiti.feature.feature.group [0.9.0,1.0.0)' but it could not be found

  Cannot satisfy dependency:

    From: Scenario based Connectivity and Configuration Tools in ABAP 1.0.4 (com.sap.adt.pitools.npm.feature.group 1.0.4)

    To: com.sap.adt.pitools.feature.group [1.0.0,2.0.0)

  Cannot satisfy dependency:

    From: ABAP Connectivity and Integration Development Tools 1.0.4 (com.sap.adt.pitools.tlf.feature.group 1.0.4)

    To: com.sap.adt.pitools.npm.feature.group 1.0.4

I have added the graphiti tool in the SDK,

Not sure what to do next

Hello,

is there a way to see the release date of a function module ('Released on' / TFDIR-FREEDATE) in ADT?

I would have expected to see it in properties of the program, because in SE37 it is in Attributes tab.

But I do not find it there.

Can I see it in Eclipse or do I have to open the function module in SAP GUI?

Thank you.

Best regards,

Dominik

Hey there,

i have a problem to start ABAP in Eclipse.

Always when i want to install Abap Development Tools, Eclipse says i have to install another version. I tried now several versions of ADT but no one worked.

https://websmp101.sap-ag.de/swdc

Searching for: SAP ABAP IN ECLIPSE

Error message:

Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.

  Software being installed: ABAP Development Tools 1.0.9 (com.sap.adt.core.feature.group 1.0.9)

  Missing requirement: ABAP Development Tools Communication Framework 1.0.5 (com.sap.adt.fwk.ci.feature.group 1.0.5) requires 'org.eclipse.emf.databinding.edit.feature.group [1.2.0,2.0.0)' but it could not be found

  Cannot satisfy dependency:

    From: ABAP Development Tools 1.0.9 (com.sap.adt.core.feature.group 1.0.9)

    To: com.sap.adt.fwk.ci.feature.group [1.0.5]

Thanks for any Help

At ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse, we are developing simple and elegant data preview tools which offers functionality similar to SE16, and also an advanced free-styled open SQL editor to execute and preview results.

Here is a “lab preview” of the Modeled Data Preview editor that we are building, where the users can preview data in any Dictionary Tables, views. The video is 4 minute in length.

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-44175

Here is a “lab preview” of the freestyle open-SQL Data Preview editor that we are building, where the users can write complex open-SQL queries and preview its results rapidly. The video is 2 minute in length.

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-44324

__________________

Modeled Data Preview

Some highlights of the modeled data preview would be

• Users can specify the size of the previewed result-set.
• Users can add any number of filters. (Internally it would simply mean an AND condition in the WHERE clause)
• Specify any comparators, e.g. EQUALS, LIKE and also IN (as in the above snapshot)
• Sorting (results are fetched from backend up sorting)
• Local filter can be used to further filter in the previewed result set
• Graphically view all the distinct values. Table chart, bar chart and pie chart would be supported
• View the logs of all the queries executed
  

__________________

Open SQL Data Preview

Some highlights of the open SQL data preview editor would be

• Users need not create any report programs to execute the open SQL query
• Users need not create the ABAP types to hold the result set of the SELECT query(The tool will take care of it internally)
• Users can progressively build and test the open SQL query. Once ready, simply paste the query into your ABAP program

__________________

Could you please give us your feedback on these tools

• How often do you see yourself using these tools?
• Do you think it will help increase your productivity?
• What features do you think are currently missing?

• Overall, how do you like these tools? How would you rate these tools on a scale of 10? (10 = "excellent value")

You can be very honest about your feedback :-)

Hi All,

Has anyone successfully checked out a ui5 application from an application server to their eclipse environment on a Mac using Eclipse and SAP Java Client.

I have gotten to a point where I can successfully connect to the target Application Servers using the SAP Java Client. The problem is that when I try to import the connection profile settings into Eclipse, not all the field are pulling through to the connection wizard..

Here is a screenshot of the working SAP Java connection setting

Here is a screenshot of the corresponding Eclipse screen when trying to access an ABAP team repository

As you can see, fields like Server, SAProuter, and instance number are not pulling through..

Hi,

Mac OS X (Lion), Java GUI 7.30, Eclipse Kepler with ADT. I do have a properly working entry in SAPGUI / Java for my HANA Trial but when I want to connect with Eclipse I have to choose one of the entries in my Java GUI and Eclipse does complain that there is no message server. But for HANA trial I don't need a message server (and - for good reasons - I don't have one ).

Why does that work in JAVAGUI and not in Eclipse?

connections file:

############################################################

#

# file    : /Users/$HOME/Library/Preferences/SAP/connections

# created : 27.09.2013 14:23:56 MESZ

# encoding: UTF-8

#

############################################################

A4H:conn=/H/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/S/3200&clnt=001&user=DEVELOPER&lang=DE&expert=true

NPL:conn=/H/yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy/S/3200&clnt=001&user=DEVELOPER&lang=DE&expert=true

settings file:

############################################################

#

# file    : /Users/$HOME/Library/Preferences/SAP/settings

# created : 06.11.2013 15:37:01 MEZ

# encoding: UTF-8

#

############################################################

@GLF_showDetailCol = "1"

@GLF_ColumnState = "0 / 75"

@logonFrame_2_X = "894"

@frameWidth = "632"

@frameHeight = "617"

@INCLUDE = "/Users/$HOME/Library/Preferences/SAP/connections"

i am building an mobile application using eclipse. i have created a menuView for displaying the menu. the menu is in form of tiles. for this i have add the tile container and inside that i have added 4 tiles. on running the html file on the browser its not displaying the tiles.

i am using chrome browser.

i have attached the jpg file of my code.

there is a good blog http://scn.sap.com/community/abap/eclipse/blog/2012/07/16/installing-abap-in-eclipse

but,

is there any HOWTO or step-by-step document for setting up SNC (without SSO) for using ABAP in Eclipse?

right now, we do not have already SNC

thanks in advance

Chris

Do you want to testdrive SAP's new Eclipse-based ABAP IDE, the ABAP Development Tools for SAP NetWeaver?

Simply go to the update site of the SAP Development Tools for Eclipse and follow the installation instructions. This version of ADT requires at least an AS ABAP of SAP NetWeaver 7.31/7.03 SP04 (for details please refer to this blog post). Thus, you either already installed an approriate sytem or you may use the different trial editions of SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP provided virtual appliance. Please ensure to configure the port of the HTTP service correctly (see ICM documentation), otherwise some features of ADT might not work correctly (like calling the ABAP keyword documentation).

For a jump start with ADT after installing it successfully I recommend to read the ADT Quick Launch Guide or watch the ADT video tutorial. There is also an FAQ document available about ADT which might be of interest.

Hello, community!

I have encountered the following problem:

When I try to open more than one SAP GUI window in Eclipse on Mac OS, Eclipse freezes. This problem always occurs when I have Java 1.7 installed.

When I uninstall Java 1.7 and use system's Java 1.6, everything works fine.

Anyone encountered similar problems? Any solutions?

Hello All,

I was checking all through SCN if I could get some way out to practice with ADT - the tool and the new features of programming with ABAP.

But could only see the CAL and AWS way where I need to pay for the hosting charges.

As far as I remember there was a Trial Developer Edition of AS ABAP 7.03 which was compatible to run with ADT, but could not find that standalone download of the AS ABAP on SCN.

So my question in short is :

Is there any way to practice with the ABAP on Eclipse for free ie. by having some standalone AS ABAP installed on local system ?

Thanks in advance,

Rahul