Add Page to UI5 SplitApp Boilerplate

ui5In previous blog posts we created the basis to work/develop with the UI5 Boilerplate in different environments (OpenUI5, SAPUI5, SAP or non-SAP centric Development Environment) and the app structure concept was explained in the SCN blog post UI5 Boilerplate explained (Part 1). It is now time to extend the UI5 Boilerplate:

How to add an additional Page to UI5 SplitApp Boilerplate?

Step 1: Create new View and Controller for the new Page

In this step we assume you work with Eclipse and the SAPUI5 Toolkit Plugin. If you work without the SAPUI5 Toolkit you have to create the files yourself.

UI5 SplitApp Boilerplate – Explained Part 1 – on SCN

ui5_72Only a small entry here as the full article is available on SAP Community Network (SCN):

UI5 Boilerplate explained (Part 1) on SCN

The article describes application and file structure of the UI5 SplitApp Boilerplate.

Run UI5 Apps on Apache Tomcat

tomcatLet’s use Apache Tomcat to run UI5 Apps! Tomcat is a very light-weight, but a full blown Java based app and web server. It can be well integrated into Eclipse IDE and therefore a perfect counterpart in development. It is much more light-weight and faster in startup than any SAP Java Server. It also enables you to write server-side components (like servlet’s, JSP’s,…), which then can be consumed by our UI5 App. And like OpenUI5 it is Open Source and free!

OpenUI5 – SAP UI5 unter Open Source Lizenz

Kaum zu glauben und ziemlich unerwartet, kurz vor Weihnachten hat SAP der „Community„ noch ein dickes Geschenk gemacht: OpenUI5 ist da! SAP UI5 unter Open Source Lizenz Im November noch schrieb ich im Beitrag Quickstart – Entwickeln mit SAP UI5  „…SAP UI5 keiner Open Source Lizenz (zumindest bisher) untersteht ….“. Das ist nun alles anders. […]