Hello,
thanks for providing the tutorials for the SAP HANA Cloud platform.
When going through the JAVA tutorial "Adding Persistence Using JDBC" which is located here
https://help.hana.ondemand.com/help/frameset.htm?e4c52854bb571014aeb88753d0dad158.html
I found that some additional information would help to avoid errors:
The prerequisite section asks to install according to section "Installing Java Tools for Eclipse and SDK",
which leads to section "Installing ther SDK". There, 3 options/types are given: "Java Web", "Java Web Tomcat 7" and "Java EE 6 Web Profile".
I initially picked "Java Web Tomcat 7", but then I got stuck in section 4 "Prepare the Web Application Project for JDBC"
of the tutorial "Adding Persistence Using JDBC": Directory "repository/plugins" did not exist.
The solution is to use SDK "Java EE 6 Web Profile".
Every tutorial should detail in its prerequisite section which SDK type is required!
I now see that one could determine from the "EE" part of the name that is required for accessing DB, but I already lost a lot of time and other developers who are new to HCP might run into the same issues as well.
Best regards,
Roland