What should I prefer, Eclipse or SAP Web IDE for designing UI5/FIORI apps?

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

I am very new to UI5 and FIORI development and I am ABAP developer.

I have started learning for these techniques following tutorials from SCN/youtube.

But I am getting confused which tool should be used, Eclipse/Web IDE.

I have gone through some threads, mentioning some good points about Web IDE.

But to learn the techniques, which is better?

In future, how SAP is looking towards these tools?

If this question is already discussed on forum, please navigate me there.

Thank you!

Regards,

Tushar C.

[jamie_cawley · Accepted solution]

In addition to what the links threads state Web IDE is the strategic IDE for UI5 apps.  The UI5 tools created for eclipse are now longer supported and the recommendation is to use Web IDE.

Regards,

Jamie

SAP - Technology RIG

[junwu · Accepted solution]

Hi Jamie,

is there any note regarding the thing you mentioned?

Best regards,

Jun

[jamie_cawley · Accepted solution]

See

SAP Web IDE - Frequently Asked Questions | SCN

Regards,

Jamie

SAP - Technology RIG

[junwu · Accepted solution]

the deprecated one is fiori tool kit right? not the whole ui5 dev tool in eclipse.

these are two different thing.

[jamie_cawley · Accepted solution]

Yes, the fiori toolkit.

Regards,

Jamie

SAP - Technology RIG

[Varamanoj · Accepted solution]

But is there any Production version of SAP WEB IDE on premise version???

[jamie_cawley · Accepted solution]

There is only a local trial version

All other versions are on the cloud.

Regards,

Jamie

SAP - Technology RIG

[Varamanoj · Accepted solution]

Yeah.. is there any clarity by when on premise production version as available??

[junwu · Accepted solution]

then I think you have to change your statement, it is quite misleading

[jamie_cawley · Accepted solution]

I would suggest following the thread I posted earlier for any news regarding the local/on premise version of Web IDE.

Regards,

Jamie

SAP - Technology RIG

[Qualiture · Accepted solution]

Although SAP indeed (highly) recommends WebIDE for UI5 development, the beauty of it is that you as a developer can use any editor or IDE you're already familiar with;

whether it's Eclipse, WebIDE, WebStorm, IntelliJ, Sublime, Atom, notepad.exe, Emacs, VIM, everything is possible.

As for Eclipse support, at least SAP still supports the latest Mars version too since they have a dedicated update site for SAPUI5 tools at https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/mars

[vijay_kumar49]

Please check this document. it may be useful Thread 1 and Thread 2

Kindly let me know if you need any more informatio