The UI Development Simplified with SAP UI5

SAP is one of the most sought out vendor for delivering Software Applications in ERP, Analytics, IoT, HR, Cloud and Data platforms, Finance and digital supply chain sectors and so on. And SAPUI5 is a recent product from SAP that powers SAP Fiori applications. It is a client UI technology that is based on CSS, HTML 5 and JavaScript and mainly it enables Developer to develop and modify client applications. Let’s understand the enhancements made in User Interface with SAP UI5 through this article.

Servers

These servers play a major role while deploying customized applications. It connects the stored SAPUI5 libraries to a database. Based on the SAPUI5 deployed environment type, the libraries or customised applications can be placed on an SAP HANA cloud platform or SAP NetWeaver application server.

SAPUI5 basic architecture

Once an SAPUI5 application is accessed from your device, an appeal is sent to the respective server to load the application into the browser, letting the viewer to access the suitable libraries. Basically, the model is also instantiated and the business data gets fetched from the database.

Usage of Model View Controller (MVC)

MVC concepts are incorporated by SAP UI5 to achieve the following goals:

• Support development in distributed teams with different source locations
• Recommend file structure, naming and usage patterns
• Append capability of UI declaration (as compared to a programmatic construction)

Few notable features of this new SAPUI5 interfaces are as follows:

• Reinforces CSS3, permitting you to remodel themes as per your company’s branding in an effective fashion.
• Implements the open source jQuery library as a basic component.
• Based on JavaScript supports RIA like client-side features.
• Meets with OpenAjax and can be implementd alongside standard JavaScript libraries.
• Created in a release independent code line to initiate short shipment cycles.

Therefore, based on the MVC concept, SAPUI5 applications helps in creating sophisticated UI5 projects and can be delivered in different platforms such as:

• SAP HANA Cloud Platform
• SAP HANA Platform
• User Interface Add-on for SAP NetWeaver

In this article we have outlined an overview of each platform in simple words.

SAP HANA Cloud Platform

The SAP HANA Cloud platform delivers flexible access to a feature and user friendly domain in the cloud based on open standards. The platform has a complete set of services for enterprise mobility, integration, analytics and collaboration.

Customers and partners can implement SAP HANA cloud to build, deploy and manage cloud based enterprise applications instantly that compliment and extend your SAP or non-SAP solutions irrespective of their deployment mode.

Building a simple SAPUI5 Application

SAPUI5 can be used to its best by including a set of JavaScript libraries into your HTML page by implementing all the controls given by these libraries to develop one or more control trees. This framework also reinforces the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) that permits you to initialize controls, and minimize your typing efforts.

It even offers an additional library called sap.m that is optimized for mobile devices to create mobile apps.

SAP HANA Platform

SAP HANA platform is a platform is far better than SAP HANA Cloud platform as it can be deployed on-premises also.

To use SAP HANA platform effectively, you need to follow few steps to install and configure the SAP HANA Studio Eclipse workbench. After completion of installation process, you can start creating basic applications using SAPUI5.

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SAP User Interface Add-On

In SAP NetWeaver the SAP User Interface Add-On delivers a new user interaction and technology without disturbing the hidden Business applications. It offers most important benefits for its existing customers in enhancing their existing SAP UI landscapes which is independent of application releases and devoid of major investments with no upgrades.

The main objective of SAP is to weave the existing UI functionality, while using the latest SAP’s UI technology and functionality, to provide vital UI improvements for its customers and end users irrespective of the application lifecycle and the version of the existing SAP NetWeaver platform.

Following tools plays crucial role to develop an application in SAPUI5:

• Eclipse – as editor
• SAPUI5 Plugin installed in Eclipse
• SAPUI5 SDK
• Tomcat Apache (Server)

Conclusion

In future SAP has great plans for UI5 to make it as a standard product of SAP for the next few years. It is a wise choice for an enterprise to build UI5 talent and start implementing UI5 technologies to benefit from the UI framework change. Get trained with SAPUI5 technology that leverages the MVC concept, so that you can create sophisticated and user friendly applications without any additional investment.

I hope that by now you have had an overview of SAP FIORI. Before you enroll in ZaranTech’s certification course on SAP FIORI &UI5, do check out the SAP UI5 and FIORI Tutorial for Beginners: