SAP Web IDE The Simple Way to Build and Extend SAP Fiori and SAPUI5 Applications Frequently Asked Questions 18-Dec-2015 SAP Web IDE is a web-based tool that empowers users to rapidly create apps for browser and mobile devices. It simplifies the end-to-end application lifecycle: prototyping, development, packaging, deployment, and customer extensions for SAP Fiori and SAPUI5 applications. 2 General 6 Functionality 7 HANA Integration 8 Mobile Development 9 Licensing
GENERAL INFORMATION What does SAP Web IDE offer? Build beautiful HTML5 based SAPUI5 applications applying SAP Fiori UX using wizards, templates, Sample Apps, WYSIWYG editor and a code editor with SAPUI5 code completion. Instantly preview application for any device screen size - desktop, tablet, or smartphone Use the sophisticated mock service for decoupling front-end development from the server and for testing purposes Deploy on HANA Cloud Platform (HCP), SAPUI5 ABAP repository using Business Server Pages (BSP), SAP Fiori launchpad (FLP), SAP HANA Cloud Platform mobile Services (HCPms), and SAP Mobile Platform (SMP). Extend SAP delivered applications using code editors and a visual extensibility pane. Collaborate with other developers via the SAP Web IDE integrated Git support. Extend SAP Web IDE through plugins and templates leveraging its modular and extensible framework. What is SAP Fiori UX? What is SAPUI5? Is SAP Web IDE available for customer to use? SAP Fiori is the new user experience for SAP software. It applies modern design principles for a completely reimagined user experience. SAP Fiori UX represents a personalized, responsive and simple user experience across devices and deployment options. SAP Fiori is based on SAPUI5. SAPUI5 lets you build enterprise-ready web applications, responsive to all devices, running on almost any browser of your choice. It s based on JavaScript, using JQuery as its foundation and follows web standards. It eases your development with a client-side HTML5 rendering library including a rich set of controls and supports data binding to different models (JSON, XML and ODATA). OpenUI5 is an open source version of SAPUI5. SAP Web IDE has been released for productive usage on SAP HANA Cloud Platform more than a year ago. It can be reached via SAP HANA Cloud Platform or SAP Store for productive or trial usage. SAP Web IDE is also available as a Local trial version for test and evaluation purposes via SCN. If needed, contact your account executive to learn more about how you can start using SAP Web IDE.
SAP Web IDE was formerly called SAP River RDE. Why was it renamed? How enterprise ready is SAP Web IDE? The feedback we received was that the name of the product was somewhat confusing and did not necessarily capture the full essence of the product capabilities. As a result we decided to change it to SAP Web IDE, a name that is more in-line with standard industry usage and reflects how the development community refers to this type of technology. Security: SAP Web IDE relies on HANA Cloud Platform infrastructure for authentication and secure connectivity to different systems (SAP Gateway) or other components (Orion, Git). As part of the HANA Cloud Platform the SAP Web IDE adheres to the SAP standard terms and conditions for cloud products related to data protection and privacy. SAP Web IDE could use any Identity provider (IdP) including customer defined IdPs, or use the SAP HANA Cloud connector for secure connection to on premise systems. For more information on SAP HANA Cloud connector please refer to whitepaper http://scn.sap.com/docs/doc-60903. SAP Web IDE relies on authorization checks done by other systems (SAP Gateway, Orion, and Git). Administration / Configuration: Settings for the developments environment can be easily maintained and controlled centrally from the HANA Cloud Platform cockpit. Develop Once, Run Everywhere: Applications developed with SAP Web IDE can run on different platforms like HANA Cloud Platform, SAP ABAP using Business Server Pages (BSP) and SAP Mobile Platform (SMP). Lifecycle Management: SAP Web IDE will support the entire application lifecycle: starting from design, through development and testing to deployment and extensibility. Installation/Supportability: SAP Web IDE hosted on the HANA Cloud Platform provides a low TCO environment. Local installations are not required. Integration: SAP Web IDE enables seamless integration with other SAP HANA Cloud Platform capabilities like SAP Fiori launchpad, Git code repository, Fiori, cloud edition and HANA Cloud Platform mobile services. SAP Web IDE also securely connects to your ABAP Application Server to enable consumption of business data and app import / deployment.
What offline-data features are included (i.e. when data connection is temporarily lost)? Is it possible to install SAP Web IDE locally on your computer? Is there any SAP HANA dependency (like in runtime or design time) for SAP Web IDE? Will the UI theme designer be part of SAP Web IDE? What is the difference between SAP Web IDE and other existing development tools (SMP AppBuilder, SAP AppDesigner, Gateway PA Tools and Fiori toolkit) that help developers build FIORI/SAPUI5 UIs? You need to be online to be able to work with SAP Web IDE on HCP. SAP Web IDE has an automatic save (auto-save) feature that allows a user to have the changes in all open documents saved automatically at preset intervals. In addition, we enable session restore in case of session loss, session timeout and connectivity issues. We recommend our cloud offering as this allows you to work with latest SAP versions without any installation effort. It also enables seamless integration with HCP services e.g. Fiori launchpad, Git, Fiori Cloud edition, HCP Mobile services and additional future integrations like HCI, Usage Analytics. Local installation for non-productive usage (i.e. trial version) is available via SCN. SAP Web IDE is running on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP), which is SAP s platform-as-a-service offering (PaaS). SAP Web IDE is a design time environment, it is not required in the runtime environment. There are no dependencies to the HANA database. SAP Web IDE provides direct access to launch the UI Theme designer from SAP Web IDE (via the Welcome screen). In the future, we plan to support previewing apps using UI Theme Designer themes and define theme project resources in SAP Web IDE (w/git integration). SAP Web IDE embraces the capabilities of existing products (SAP Mobile Platform AppBuilder, SAP AppDesigner, Gateway PA Tools and Fiori toolkit) and provides a comprehensive tool designed to support the end-to-end development lifecycle for SAPUI5 and applications applying the SAP Fiori UX while the above mentioned products provide more specific solutions for SAPUI5 and applications applying the SAP Fiori UX. The vision is to unite these products in order to simplify the end-to-end development story of Fiori and SAPUI5 applications by providing one product for all applications (simple and complex) platforms (cloud and on premise) channels (smartphone, tablet, desktop)
Is it possible to import a project from Eclipse to SAP Web IDE and vice versa? When do you recommend to use SAP Web IDE and when SAP Eclipse extensions? Does SAP Web IDE work with SAP Gateway trial system? Do I have to connect SAP Web IDE to my systems? Which browser versions are supported by SAP Web IDE? Yes, this is possible. SAP Web IDE allows you to import and export your project as zip file. SAP Web IDE is the recommended tool for developing any Fiori and SAPUI5 app. SAP will focus its investment in SAP Web IDE since it provides a simple development process with rich out of the box capabilities. SAPUI5 Eclipse tools are supported by SAP. New capabilities for SAPUI5 and SAPFiori development are planned to be supported only with SAP Web IDE. Yes, please take a look at the following blog on the SCN for details - "How to configure an external GW system with SAP Web IDE". No. SAP Web IDE supports a mock service that enables the decoupling of the front-end application development from the server. In addition, it enables application testing without backend connectivity. The mock service supports automatic data generation, editing of mock data and more. For testing the finalized application, we recommend to connect to your backend system via SAP HANA Cloud connector. Instead of the integrated deployment option SAP Web IDE also supports exporting your projects. It can be imported into e.g. an SAP ABAP Server with an up-/download report (see note 1793771) SAP Web IDE supports: Google Chrome (latest version) on Windows and Mac Mozilla Firefox (latest version) on Windows Microsoft Internet Explorer 10/11 on Windows Apple Safari (latest version) on Mac (except the Layout editor which is currently supported only on Google Chrome)
FUNCTIONALITY How does team development and version management work in SAP Web IDE? What kind of deployment options are provided by SAP Web IDE? SAP Web IDE on HANA Cloud Platform is connected to Git (free software used for distributed revision control and source code management) on HANA Cloud Platform. SAP Web IDE comes with integrated deployment options for SAP HANA Cloud Platform SAPUI5 ABAP Repository on a SAP ABAP Server SAP Fiori launchpad HANA Cloud Platform mobile services (HCPms) SAP Mobile Platform.. In addition to the integrated deployment options, manual upload to an onpremise ABAP system is also supported. Is there any debugging feature introduced with this SAP Web IDE? Can SAP Web IDE be used to develop new Fiori apps by customers? Is it possible to create customerspecific templates? Does SAP Web IDE provide any ABAP workbench plug-ins? SAP Web IDE provides no particular debugging features, but as this is a browser-based development environment debugging capabilities of the browser can be used. You may open the SAPUI5 Diagnostics to help in debugging by Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S Yes, SAP Web IDE allows generation of Fiori starter apps based on wizards and templates that can be used to develop new Fiori apps. These applications can then be changed via the Layout Editor, the code editor and previewed via the Instant Preview option. Once developed, the apps can be deployed as mentioned above. Yes, this is possible. The template gallery can be enriched with customer-specific templates. SAP Web IDE supports the full process of templates/plugins creation: Out of the box wizards that assist with the creation of customerspecific plug-ins and templates. Ability to reuse existing and user created templates Auto complete option for editing template files in the code editor Ability to test plugin projects within SAP Web IDE No, currently there is no ABAP workbench plug-in available for SAP Web IDE.
HANA INTEGRATION Which capabilities will be provided by SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA? What is the rationale behind introducing SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA? What happens to SAP HANA Studio and SAP HANA Webbased Development Workbench? How can I use SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA? What's next for SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA? SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA will provide a comprehensive web-based development experience for creating SAP HANA native applications. This includes the development of SAP HANA content and models, UI development with SAPUI5 and Node.js or XSJS business code for SAP HANA extended application services, advanced model. SAP is consolidating the development experience for SAP-based applications on the cloud and on premise. For this SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA comprises capabilities of SAP HANA Studio, SAP HANA Webbased Development Workbench and SAP Web IDE to develop with the SAP HANA XS advanced platform. It consolidates technologies, follows industry trends, and leverages industry standards where possible, while retaining a competitive innovation focus of SAP s current tool offering. With its first delivery SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA will be preview status only and not yet be feature complete. You might be required to use external editors and command line tools to develop for SAP HANA XS advanced. The existing tools for SAP HANA extended application services, classic model remain part of SAP HANA to provide 100% backwards capability until full migration will be possible. SAP recommends that customers/partners begin to evaluate SAP HANA XS advanced and SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA in a pilot project for a new application. Please note that SAP Web IDE on SAP HANA tooling is not supported for productive usage yet. SAP keeps working on simplifying the development experience for SAP HANA XS advanced. Existing capabilities will be merged and new capabilities for an end-to-end native development process will be added.
MOBILE DEVELOPMENT Does SAP Web IDE support hybrid development using Apache Cordova? Yes, SAP Web IDE Hybrid Application Toolkit (HAT) add-on adds support for developing hybrid web applications using SAP Web IDE. The add-on also supports testing and debugging of the applications through a local hybrid development environment. This add-on supports the Cordova core plugins as well as plugins from the SMP Kapsel SDK. The toolkit supports hybrid application development for Android and ios. Support for Microsoft Windows is on the roadmap for a future release. You can find more information on the SAP Web IDE mobile enablement site. Does SAP Web IDE support the SMP Hybrid SDK (Kapsel)? Yes, SAP Web IDE supports the Kapsel SDK through code completion, code snippets, API reference documentation, user selective enablement of Kapsel or core Cordova plugins and additional capabilities. What kind of rapid app development for mobile platform comes with SAP Web IDE? SAP Web IDE offers WYSIWYG, wizards, templates and code editor with SAPUI5 and Kapsel specific code completion for rapid development for mobile and desktop applications. SAP Web IDE plans to support Mobilizing existing Fiori and SAPUI5 apps. Support for SAP Fiori client for mobile. What kind of mobile deployment options are provided by SAP Web IDE? SAP Web IDE comes with automatic deployment options for the following mobile platforms HANA Cloud Platform mobile services (HCPms) SAP Mobile Platform. Can we do native (mobile) development with SAP Web IDE? No, SAP Web IDE does not support native (mobile) development.
LICENSING How will licensing work with SAP Web IDE? There are several ways for customers and partners to get access to SAP Web IDE: 1. For SAP HANA Cloud Platform customers: SAP Web IDE is included in several HCP packages: Get Started Developer Edition (Non-Production Use) on HCP Trial Starter Editions (Non-Production Use) Small Business Professional Edition Single application Edition Multiple application Edition Enterprise AppServices Standard Edition AppServices Premium Edition For more information, see http://hcp.sap.com/pricing.html. 2. In addition to the packages above SAP offers the SAP HANA AppServices, Web IDE Edition package (material no. 8003103) for productive purposes with no SAP HANA/HCP prerequisites. For more information, see https://www.sapstore.com/solutions/60009/web-ide 3. For SAP HANA customers: Starting from SAP HANA SP09, SAP Web IDE code editor and application preview capabilities are part of SAP HANA Web-based Development Workbench. 4. For partners: SAP Web IDE is included in SAP PartnerEdge program for Application Development Innovation Pack for SAP HANA Cloud Platform. Partners can alternatively purchase any of the mentioned customer packages. 5. Trial versions: Cloud based available on HCP Trial and Local version on SCN How can I get one of those packages? Contact your SAP Account Executive or search for SAP Web IDE on SAP Store or SCN Find Out More SAP Web IDE: HCP web site SAP Web IDE on SCN: SAP Developer Enablement SAP Web IDE Roadmap: Service Marketplace SAP Web IDE on SAP UX explorer: SAP UX explorer
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