OpenUI5

General Discussions
#1

A bit tangential to Java gaming but I just started looking into OpenUI5 for work and was wondering if anyone has had any experience with it?

http://openui5.org

From the FAQ:

[quote]OpenUI5 is an Open Source JavaScript UI library, maintained by SAP and available under the Apache 2.0 license. OpenUI5 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).
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Looks interesting to me because it’s not just another JavaScript UI framework. SAP (huge multinational company worth billions in the CRM area) recently open-sourced it in summer 2014 after heavy internal use over the last 4 years. Sources tell me that they are likely repositioning their entire future product line on it. The following presentation shows it working nicely in the browser and on mobile.

Overview (37 mins):

Yeah, and someone created Pac-man in it:

#2

AHAHAHA

Didn’t know they changed the name from sapui5 to openUI5.

Used this during the summer internship at SAP last year.

It’s really useful for creating Widget-rich UI’s (SAP’s UI’s are crazy). The documentation and tutorials are plenty and the support is really good.

I don’t know how hard it is to customize the theme, though, I only used the SAP themes :slight_smile:

#3

Cool, glad to hear that your experience with it has been good. The main competition to this seems to be Google’s angular.js but I have no experience with it.

We’ll see how the next 2 weeks go.