Something About SAP Web IDE and Eclipse Orion

You could start SAP Web IDE from the following URL. Register is needed.

https://account.hanatrial.ondemand.com/cockpit

You could also get more information in the following URL.

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-55465

It is based on Eclipse Orion. 

What is Orion? It is a web IDE, a IDE in you browser.

It is not a plugin of traditional Eclipse IDE. 

You could treat Orion and traditional Eclipse as two different IDEs. 

Although they have something in common.

You could get some ideas about Orion by the following URLs.

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion/Documentation/User_Guide/Getting_started

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion/FAQ

https://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20141027_cloud_initiative.php

http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2011/12/23/introducing-eclipse-orion/

So the idea of SAP Web IDE is similar. But you could use it to write codes for sapui5, hana... on the Hana Cloud Platform.

Of course, you could install a local copy of SAP Web IDE. If you are interesting in doing it, please follow the guide in the following URL. After the installation, you could access you local SAP Web IDE server by browser. (Yes, because it contains a web server.)

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-58926

The document for SAP Web IDE.

https://help.hana.ondemand.com/SAP_RDE/frameset.htm

Some other interesting URLs.

About SAPUI5 ==> https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/sdk/#docs/guide/058c7fd461d94223a11ef4c89b2259ea.html   

Home page about Hana Cloud Platform. ==> http://hcp.sap.com/index.html 

Another web IDE based on Orion. ==> https://orionhub.org/ 

SAP Development Tools for Eclipse. This is a plugin for normal eclipse. ==> https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/