SAP UI 5 – key points

What is SAPUI5 ?

                 
The UI development toolkit for HTML5 (SAPUI5) is a user interface technology that is used to build and adapt client applications. The SAPUI5 runtime is a client-side HTML5 rendering library with a rich set of standard and extension controls. It provides a lightweight programming model for desktop as well as mobile applications. Based on JavaScript,  it supports RIA like client-side features. SAPUI5 complies with OpenAjax and can be used together with standard JavaScript libraries.

Features

1. Use the SAPUI5 tools in Eclipse to develop an MVC (Model View Controller )based SAPUI5 application and get to know
   the utilities they provide.
2. Currently SAPUI5 only support the browser (Internet Explorer,  Chrome, Firefox, Safari, iOS, Android, Portal, UI,
   Mobile Web Application, Web application, mobile browser)  which has HTML5 capabilities are supported. 
3. This can be used to develop application for mobile and desktop .
4. For creating mobile application you need to add additional called sap.m, which is optimized for mobile devices.

Upgrading is easy

SAPUI5 plans to be a so-called Release Independent Component (RIC). An important constraint for this is that it must be as simple as possible to upgrade to a newer version.

Debugging/Troubleshooting capabilities

Browsers behave differently with regard to the debugging tools they assist

  For examples :

   a) Chrome provides excellent built-in debugging

   b) Internet Explorer provides built-in developer tools.

   c) Safari browser provides remote debugging on mobile devices