The HANA Modeler existed before the HANA Development Perspective. It uses direct editing but specialized editors that require an online connection to HANA. For SPS5 we wanted to introduce additional development artifacts which were source code based (XSODATA and XSJS for instance). For this we wanted to be able to use standard Eclipse editors and debuggers. Therefore the HANA Development Perspective was introduced. This uses a different workflow of Check Out and editing of local files which then are committed back to the Repository. This all sits upon standard Eclipse Team Provider infrastructure. In SPS6 the modeler editors were also integrated into this Development Perspective (Project Explorer), so you could have a single project with all development artifact types.
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