Getting Started with SAPUI5
1st Edition
Published on 26. September 2014
Book
Hardback
462 pages
978-1-59229-969-0 (ISBN)
Description
SAPUI5 has quickly become the open-source programming language with the best options for responsive and versatile SAP app development. So how well do you speak SAPUI5, and what can you do with it? Learn to develop next-generation UIs for mobile-ready, data source-agnostic, client-side SAP applications. First review basic HTML5 and CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery concepts as a foundation for working with SAPUI5, and then explore the development and runtime environments, tools, and controls that you'll use throughout the design process. Use step-by-step instructions, sample code listings, and a full-scale model application to develop and customize your own apps with advanced functionality from the SAP system. The future of app development has arrived-make sure you can speak its language. Topic Highlights HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery SAP Gateway Integrated development environment SAPUI5 libraries Model, view, and layout types Application architecture SAPUI5 file optimization Model-view-controller paradigm Customization
Highlights:
HTML5 and CSS3
JavaScript and jQuery
SAP Gateway and OData
SAPUI5 IDE
SAPUI5 libraries
Model, view, and layout types
Application architecture
SAPUI5 file optimization
Model-view-controller paradigm
Customization
SAP HANA views
SAPUI5 for mobile devices
Eclipse
Highlights:
HTML5 and CSS3
JavaScript and jQuery
SAP Gateway and OData
SAPUI5 IDE
SAPUI5 libraries
Model, view, and layout types
Application architecture
SAPUI5 file optimization
Model-view-controller paradigm
Customization
SAP HANA views
SAPUI5 for mobile devices
Eclipse
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Person
Author
Miroslav Antolovic is a managing director of bsc Solutions GmbH. Previously, he worked at SAP AG as an SAP Product Lifecycle Management application developer before moving to Realtech AG, where he developed add-on products. He is a certified SAP instructor and provides training in ABAP, Web Dynpro, SAPUI5, and HANA.
Content
Introduction ... 13
1. HTML5 and CSS3 ... 19
1.1 Introduction to HTML5 ... 20
1.2 Introduction to CSS ... 36
2 JavaScript ... 47
2.1 Basic Principles ... 47
2.2 Variables ... 56
2.3 Operators ... 60
2.4 Control Structures: Conditions and Loops ... 63
2.5 Document Object Model ... 73
2.6 Events ... 81
3. jQuery ... 85
3.1 Basic Principles ... 85
3.2 Selectors and Events ... 86
3.3 DOM Manipulation ... 93
3.4 AJAX ... 97
4. Getting Started in SAPUI5 ... 105
4.1 Installation of the SAPUI5 Library in SAP Business Suite ... 106
4.2 Setting Up the Development Environment ... 109
4.3 SAPUI5 Development Scenarios ... 116
4.4 Model View Controller Architecture Pattern ... 125
4.5 First Example ... 131
5. SAPUI5 Runtime Environment ... 149
5.1 Initialization of the Application ... 150
5.2 Data Binding Models ... 160
5.3 Multilingual Applications ... 185
5.4 SAPUI5 Data Typing ... 191
5.5 Layout Adaptation via Your Own CSS ... 199
5.6 Communication with the SAP Backend ... 212
6. SAPUI5 Controls ... 219
6.1 API Reference ... 220
6.2 Common Controls (sap.ui.commons) ... 224
6.3 UX3 Controls (sap.ui.ux3) ... 273
6.4 Table Control (sap.ui.table) ... 275
6.5 Charts (sap.viz) ... 275
6.6 Controls for Mobile Applications ... 276
6.7 Suite Controls (sap.suite.) .... 276
6.8 Your Own Controls ... 278
7. Development Example of an Application ... 283
7.1 The UI Design ... 283
7.2 Implementation ... 289
8. SAP Gateway ... 353
8.1 Basic Principles of SAP Gateway ... 353
8.2 Installation ... 355
8.3 Configuration ... 356
8.4 Implementing OData Service ... 358
8.5 Consuming OData Service ... 375
9. SAP HANA ... 381
9.1 XS Engine ... 382
9.2 HANA Access ... 383
9.3 Implementation of the Sample Application ... 389
10. Mobile Applications ... 405
10.1 Installation ... 407
10.2 Introduction to SAPUI5 for Mobile ... 408
10.3 Developing Mobile Solutions with SAPUI5 ... 409
10.4 Application Example ... 420
Appendices ... 451
A. Further Sources of Information ... 451
A.1 Links ... 451
A.2 SAP Notes ... 451
A.3 Books ... 452
B. The Author ... 453
Index ... 455