UI Development Toolkit for HTML5 (SAPUI5) (New)
Use
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 UI controls for building as well desktop as mobile applications. To support you in developing applications, SAPUI5 tools comes with a set of eclipse-based wizards and editors. They provide wizards to create application projects and views according to the model-view-controller concept and other features like JavaScript code completion, templates and snippets and in-place application preview.
SAPUI5 provides many features to enable you to easily create and extend state-of-the-art user interfaces:
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It supports RIA like client-side features based on JavaScript.
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It supports CSS3, which allows you to adapt themes to your company's branding in an effective manner.
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It is based on an extensibility concept regarding custom controls.
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It uses the open source jQuery library as a foundation
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It fully supports SAP product standards.
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It complies with OpenAjax and can be used together with standard JavaScript libraries.
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It is produced in a release independent code line to enable short shipment cycles.
SAPUI5 SDK
The SDK - also called Demo Kit - provides the following sections:
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Developer Guide with a summary of valuable information around the used programming languages, open source technologies, development tools and APIs
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Controls containing running demo examples with descriptions and source codes
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API Reference with JavaScript documentation of Framework and Control API
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Test Suite which shows all controls running with different property settings where you can interactively adapt the controls you use for your test purpose.
The Demo Kit is part of the installation, you can find it on your server using the following path: http://%3Chost%3E:%3Cport%3E/sap/public/bc/ui5_ui5/demokit/
Restrictions
For restrictions when using SAPUI5, see SAP note 1769258 
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