What is SAPUI5?

SAPUI5 (SAP user interface for HTML5) is a JavaScript library created by SAP. This library will be using to create HTML5 based applications, which will also be using CSS3 & AJAX too. The most interesting part of developing these type of application is, they will take its own visibility or appearances, when opened either on a desktop, mobile devices,tablets,web browsers etc. so the look and feel will not be hampered due to the responsiveness of the UI5 components.

What is the difference between OpenUI5 and SAPUI5 ?

OpenUI5(the Open-Source-licensed version of SAPUI5) comes with an APACHE2 license and SAPUI5 comes with an SAP license. OpenUI5 library does not require any permission to use it.We can get more details about the library on here.

What are the prerequisites technology to get started to learn UI5,or how many levels of knowledge one should have to get started with SAPUI5?

The prerequisites technology are

• HTML5
• CSS3
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• oData

The level of knowledge required to get started with SAPUI5:-

HTML5 : You need not required to be an expertise with it, but yes you need to know the basic knowledge/syntax’s i.e. the tags of HTML at least and when to use them.

CSS3  : Yes, you need to have a pretty good knowledge of CSS, because in the project you will be working in will demand an in-depth knowledge of CSS.

JavaScript : We will be using in JavaScript to build our applications. So having a good sound knowledge in the same will help you to go ahead with it.

jQuery : If you do not have knowledge of jQuery,it may be managed, but we will be using it while integrating some third party libraries as and when required while developing the application.

oData : It deals with the JSON(JavaScript Object Notation)objects which will be acting as the data that will be coming from the back-end server.

 

So these are some pretty basic questions which, stay tuned for more !