Components
NWDI consists of
- Design Time Repository (DTR)
- Component Build Service (CBS)
- Change Management Service (CMS)
Sometimes people also count the following as part of NWDI
- System Landscape Directory (SLD), Directory service for SAP installations.
- SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio
The concept of the NWDI starts with a product and a software component (SC). The normal case is to have a one to one relationship between product and software component, one product is being developed and the relations between the components comprising the product are kept within a software component.
A software component comprises one or more development components (DC). A development component consists of a normal project created with the Netweaver Developer Studio, i.e. a application. The software component can also have dependencies to other SCs.
All relations are defined in a SLD.
Since all DCs that makes a product is kept inside a software component, the relations between the DCs are intact and versions of the different DCs are always consistent in the SC.
To be able to develop a DC inside a SC, a track has to be set up in the NWDI to support that development.
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