SAP Web IDE – what it is?

The SAP Web IDE (or SAPWebIDE) is new development environment for SAP artefacts completely web based to cover end2end development process. It was released in mid of last year (2014).  The WebIDE is continuation of so called River RDE (Rapid Development environment). Basically simple view on the thing suggests that River RDE got renamed to SAPWebIDE.

The development artefacts which cen be developed in the SAPWebIDE are HTML5/UI5/SAPUI5/OpenUI5 applications. Also an extension and customization of SAP Fiori apps can be done in the tool.

Download SAP WebIDE:

Current version of SAPWebIDE is 1.4. it is available both on HANA cloud and also on premise. For the cloud version follow your links as per your region:  EU, AP, NA. Download the SAP WebIDE from SAP Store.

Install SAP WebIDE:

While you have downloaded zip file from a SAP Store (see link above) upzip it to local folder e.g.: C:\SAPWebIDE. Download Eclipse Orion from eclipse.org/orion. The Orion is a browser based IDE open source tool IDE platform written in JavaScript. Unzip the Orion into the same folder where WebIDE is located. Download Eclipse Director from eclipse.org. Unzip it again into the same folder.

Install SAP WebIDE:

To start the tool up just first open command line and navigate to folder of your chose given in Install part. Go into the Director folder within the command line. Now run Director part with help of command similar to following one depends on your folders:

director -repository jar:file:..///updatesite.zip!/ -installIU com.sap.webide.orionplugin.feature.feature.group -destination c:\SAPWebIDE\eclipse

Finally run the Orion part starting up orion.exe from corresponding folder.

After that the SAPWebIDE is accessible by following URL: SAP Web IDE via the URL http://localhost:8080/webide/index.html

Registering user:

In order to use the tool an user needs to be created:

There we go..

Useful links:

WebIDE videos by DJ Adams

Hands-on video tutorials for SAP Web IDE

Start with the SAP Web IDE On-Premise

Connect the SAPWebIDE On-Premise to your SAP Gateway system On-Premise

Generate your custom Fiori application with SAPWebIDE On-Premise using Gateway On-Premise

Navigate between single full view and split view

Organize UI5 project

How to add the Fiori / Unified Shell

Release Notes for SAP Web IDE

SCN community of UI dev kit

Official SCN install how to

OpenUI5

Only very short time ago I blogged about SAPUI5 and here’s continuation. SAP wants to be more and more involved in open source software. As a proof on last year’s Teched 2013 they introduced continuation of SAPUI5 in form of open source called as OpenUI5. The basic difference between those two is that OpenUI5 is free version available under the Apache 2.0 Open Source license. On other hand SAPUI5 is for SAP’s customers and partner having SAP licenses. From central functionalities point of view they both are equal.

For all the details see the OpenUI5 announcement blog at SCN.

To see what UI you can get out of OpenUI5 see here.

Useful links for OpenUI5:

sapui5.org – official page

sap.github.io/openui5

@OpenUI5 - twitter

SAP Product Road Map SAP User Interface Technologies

13 reasons why SAP should open-source SAPUI5

This is why I like #openUI5!

Industry analysis view on OpenUI5

SAPUI5

Earlier this year SAP came with their new UI technology called SAP UI5. Wait a moment don't they have other UI technologies? Right they do have. Let's do some check and list some of them:

SAPGUI, NetWeaver Business Client (NWBC), browser-based classic dynpros (HTMLB), Business Server Pages (BSP), webDynpro for Java and ABAP, SAP CRM web client, SRM web client, Interactive Forms by Adobe,…

So why new UI? We can look at SAPUI5 as SAP’s HTML5 controls library. SAP is using it as the standard User Interface Control library in all their future applications that need a “consumer grade” User Experience. From technical perspective UI5 is based on HTML/CSS/Javascript and built on open libraries such as jQuery. SAP basically took what was available in open source standards like JQuery, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS and only enhanced it where there was lack of enterprise functions. UI5 is optimized to consume REST/OData services as exposed by e.g. SAP HANA, SAP Netweaver Gateway, SAP HANA Cloud Gateway etc.

SAPUI5 is bundled with SAP NetWeaver Cloud (code name Neo or Project River) which is OnDemand offering or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).

UI5 homepage

UI5 dev guide

UI5 developer-center

UI5 SDK

SAP User Interface Technologies - Road Map

UI5 get to know

- 28/01/2014 update -
SAPUI5 has twin buddy called OpenUI5 which is basically same thing just open source based.