This year the ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse (ADT) is celebrating its 10 years jubilee. One successful decade is over and the path to the future is still  with the Eclipse-based ABAP IDE! Congratulations!

Meanwhile the ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse has made its way to become a very efficient, mature and feature rich development environment for all ABAP-based development tasks as well on-premise for classic SAP Business Suite and new SAP S/4HANA product families as in the cloud for SAP BTP ABAP Environment or SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition and SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud (by means of developer extensibility).

As of today the wide scope of the ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse capabilities ranges from the modern development toolset to the robust and reliable quality assurance and supportability tools.

From the very first versions the ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse already had a rich set of features for the efficient ABAP development but there was still some room for improvement. This short summary of the features highlights demonstrates what has happened in these 10 years:

For your convenience here is a selection of materials, which should support you to get easy start and work effectively with the ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse.

Download ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse

Simply go to the update site of the SAP Development Tools for Eclipse for ABAP and follow the installation instructions.

ABAP Development User Guide

To get started with ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse we recommend the ABAP Development User Guide.  If you have already installed the ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse you can access it under the Help -> Help Contents -> SAP ABAP Development User Guide.

To be especially highlighted are the ADT Basics Tutorial for beginners and Tips and Tricks to make your daily work easier. You can also get there the overview of the most useful Keyboard Shortcuts. To support your smooth transition from the ABAP Workbench we offer the FAQs for the SE80 Experts using ADT.

Quick Launch page

This Quick Launch page aims to provide you with the compact knowledge you may need when starting to work with the ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse.

SAP Tutorials for Developers

In the developer center check the available SAP Tutorials for developers with the focus on the ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse.

ADT Videos on YouTube

This ABAP in Eclipse playlist offers short feature videos about ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse

Features Availability Matrix

With the ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse we follow the strategy that the latest ADT client is compatible with all ABAP backends with version 7.31 SP4 and higher. Get an overview about which features of the ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse are available against which ABAP backend system in the ADT Features Availability Matrix.

The most important ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse questions and answers are collected in the FAQs – ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse

Release Notes

Here are the Release Notes of ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse.