Creating an Application Shell

This section describes how to create an application shell that retrieves system information, user information and a user menu from a back-end system using the start-up service. When you integrate SAPUI5 applications into this shell, you can easily propagate user-specific settings retrieved from the back-end system to your SAPUI5 applications.

An application shell is an SAPUI5 application that provides the following capabilities:

• Allow users to log on to a back-end system
• Display system information and user-related information that has been read from the back-end system
• Display a user menu as defined in the logon system
• Allow users to navigate in the menu and open applications in the shell's content area
• Propagate user-specific settings that have been read from the back-end system to SAPUI5 applications that have been started in the content area