SAP HANA Studio for MAC = eclipse + SAP plugins
Well, you have probably landed here because you cannot find the HANA Studio installer for the OS X platform which has mysteriously disappeared from the SAP HANA download website. Surprise, surprise...
Until it gets listed again (I would not hold my breath), another way to run HANA Studio on Mac is to install SAP HANA Tools. I tried it out myself and found some issues that I will highlight here as the installation process should be a simple and straightforward process. After all, HANA Studio is basically eclipse + some plugins (i.e. SAP HANA Tools).
Below, I have listed the steps to follow in order to get HANA Studio up and running on Mac running Yosemite (OS X 10.10.1).
Step 1: Prerequisites
The JAVA runtime environment is required to run eclipse so you will have to install it first. The question is which one? On the SAP HANA Tools website, it is recommended to use JRE version 1.6+. But for Mac users, it is not as straightforward as on Windows because Apple supplies their own version of Java for Java versions 6 and below. If prompted by the OS, do not install JAVA for OS X (http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1572) as it is not compatible with eclipse Luna.
Since I have a general preference for using the latest version of JAVA (security), I will be installing JAVA SE 8u25. The JRE should do just fine to run eclipse but I am going with the JDK since I need it for other software development purposes as well.
- Download the JDK from the following link: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html (MAC OS X x64)
- Install it using the installer
Step 2: Installing eclipse
The next step is to install the eclipse IDE.
- Download eclipse standard 4.4 version for MAC OS X (Cocoa) 64-bit version using the following link: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/release/Luna/R
- Simply unpack it to your hard drive
- Once unzipped, copy (or drag n drop) the eclipse folder into your Applications folder
Step 3: Installing SAP HANA Tools
Third and final step, you will need to install SAP HANA Tools in eclipse.
- Open Eclipse IDE
- Select a workspace at the prompt
- Click on Help> Install New Software
- If do not see "The Eclipse Project Updates" in the dropdown menu for available sites, add it "http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/4.4" and then select it.
- Make sure the checkbox is checked for "Contact all update sites..."
- Select Eclipse SDK. If you do not, you will encounter Missing requirement AFL connector error when you will install the HANA Tools later on in the process
- Click Next, agree to the license agreement then Finish
- SAP Network users: you will encounter a Repository not found error if you are on the SAP-Corporate network as access to the repository is blocked. Therefore you will have to switch to another network (i.e. SAP-Internet) and repeat the previous steps if needed. Others can proceed to the next step.
- If successful, you will be prompt to restart eclipse
- Open eclipse again
- Select a workspace at the prompt
- Click on Help> Install New Software
- Add the following repository: https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/luna
- Make sure the checkbox is checked for "Contact all update sites..."
- Select SAP HANA Tools. If you did not install the eclipse SDK plugin in the previous step, you will encounter Missing requirement AFL connector error here. Otherwise, you should be able to install SAP HANA Tools without any problem.
- Click Next, agree to the license agreement then Finish
You will be prompted to re-start eclipse which means that the installation process is successfully completed.
Now, you can simply connect to a HANA system and get started with the fun part of development.