In this blog, we will look at how to set-up the development environment before starting development of your applications.

• We will be requiring eclipse luna IDE(Integrated Development Environment) which can be downloaded from here, you have to select the flavor(32/64bit) of the IDE as per your system configuration which can be found out by right clicking the My Computer and going to properties.You may also use sublime-text(free) and cloud9 ide(quick app development).
• Make sure that Java is already installed on your machine because eclipse required Java to run.If it is not installed just install it from here.
• Now we will see the UI5 tools repository URL which will be required to enter in eclipse as the steps given below to install all the required libraries to make available within eclipse.
• Now click on Help –>Install New Software. As per the eclipse version(Mars/Luna) you have installed,choose the URL to be copied from here .Then paste it inside Install New Software.
• After this, you will see a list of components asking for installation,but as we are focussing on UI5 so select the same from the last down(UI Development Toolkit for HTML5).Go ahead and press Next, accept all the license agreements.Then finally it will install the software within few minutes.

Now you have successfully setup your development environment …Yepi !

Stay tuned for more posts ahead !

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 !