SAP UI5 IDM 8 development

[clotilde_martinez]

Hello,

We were (slowly) trying to develop UI5 applications for our IDM 8 system with the eclipse plugin. This blog explains that the tool is no longer available and as a matter of fact, I'm not able to download it again.

This tool allowed us to generate SCA files to deploy on our Netweaver. SAP Business Application Studio does not offer this functionality so here is my question : for those of you developing ui's for IDM, which tool do you use now?

Thanks a lot,

Clotilde

[todor_petrov]

Hi Clotilde,

I suppose you know that there are frameworks out there that transform your existing Web Dynpro forms in SAP UI5 screens, but you are right, it is not always enough. So what to do, if you still need something custom.

Although the SAPUI5 tools for Eclipse are no longer available for download, you can continue using the Eclipse editor and still deploy your SCA files as you did before.

One option would be to use special Maven builds, which deliver you the right type of deployment archive.

If you want, however, to use the new things around BAS and have auto-complete and etc., then what you can do is build your SAPUI5 part in BAS and then again import it in Eclipse and using the Maven plug-ins generate a SAP NetWeaver Java deployable.

Hope that helps.

BR,

Todor

[clotilde_martinez]

Hi Todor,

actually, i do have one of secmendo generated UI5 on my dev environment running 🙂 but yes we sometimes need to go further.

I'll go look into the Maven builds then.

Thanks a lot for your help,

Clotilde