Development tools

Together with the new way of thinking, new design rules, and new libraries, SAP has started to develop tools that allow the programmers to easily develop the applications in the new technology, but also to integrate them with the existing systems. As the overall policy was to make the libraries as open and as available as possible, the tool should be made publicly available as well. At first, the choice was to use the Eclipse environment, as the IDE, which is available publicly, has a great community and is being constantly improved. The SAP team has developed several plugins for the Eclipse IDE, which are responsible for managing the SAPUI5 projects, automating the applications enhancing process, and integrating Eclipse with the on-premise SAP systems, its repositories, and its transport management system.

The Eclipse IDE with all its SAP plugins was more than enough to create, maintain, and deploy the SAPUI5 applications. Although the plugins are still available, even...