Step 1: Install Eclipse

As mentioned in Part I of this blog series, Im more a functional consultant, so not familiar with
Eclipse at all. And it took me a while to understand that I wouldnt be able to create my
application via SAP Netweaver workbench like Im used to (nowadays with SAP CRM7.01 its a
matter of 4 clicks to create a complete BSP application based on a GENIL model)
Then I realized that Eclipse is delivered through myriads of flavors and you have to pick up one
of them.

But as in the end Im planning to use SAPUI5 to develop my application (because they say
its cool), I chose Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers as mentioned in the
corresponding installation guide (after wasting my time on a few other versions, of course). By
the way it is also mentioned in the very same document that Java Runtime Environment 1.6
should also be installed.
Thats why I ran through those steps:

1. Download and Install the java runtime environment (version 6 = 1.6?) jre-6u43-
windows-x64.exe (16,4 Mo)
2. Download eclipse-jee-juno-SR2-win32-x86_64.zip (228 Mo)
3. Extract content of eclipse-jee-juno-SR2-win32-x86_64.zip to C:\
(apparently Eclipse is ready to go without the need for any further installation)

Step 2: Install SAP plug-ins for Eclipse

As far as I understand you have many options to develop mobile applications, but the first
choice you have to make is whether youre willing to create native apps or web apps. I
decided to go for web apps to make it easier to distribute among many device types. And I
wanted to test SAPUI5, so I ran through the following steps:

1. Download UI Development toolkit for HTML5 (I found this link in the second comment
of blog SAPUI5 version 1.8 is available but I guess for a production use you should
always download the latest version from SMP, see Note 1747308 Installation Guide
UI development toolkit for HTML5 (SAPUI5))
2. Extract content to C:\sapui5
3. Open Eclipse (I let the system choose the default workspace location)
4. Go to Help >> Install new software
5. Click on Add >> Local >> C:\sapui5\tools-updatesite. Select everything displayed as
below:

6. Click Next, accept Terms of use, then Finish.

7. Click OK for all security warning, and restart Eclipse.

At this stage I was able to create a very simple Hello World application using SAPUI5 libraries
following this article:How to Build a SAP HTML5 Application Using MVC with the SAPUI5
Application Development Tool. However, in order to benefit from some wizards related to SAP
Gateway when creating my a-little-more-complex application (to search for existing services
for example, let the system generate views for me, etc.) I installed SAP Netweaver Gateway
Plug-in for Eclipse too:

1. Download SAP NetWeaver Gateway plug-in for Eclipse (7,88 MB)

2. Copy the zip file to C:\sapui5
3. Open Eclipse and go to Help >> Install new software
4. Click on Add >> Archive >>
C:\sapui5\SAPNetWeaverGatewayPluginForEclipse_2.6.400.zip. Select items as
follows:

5. Click Next, accept Terms of use, then Finish.

6. Click OK for all security warning, and restart Eclipse.
7. Then go to Window >> Preferences >> SAP Netweaver Gateway >> Connection
8. Click the Add button and fill-in the relevant connection settings (I unflagged the Use
HTTPS checkbox in order not to maintain any certificate stuff):

Step 3: Create your SAPUI5 mobile app

Select NEW >> Other to be presented the following popup where you can choose SAP
Netweaver Gateway >> Starter Application Project:
Then follow the wizard to give your project a name, a type (HTML5), a template (List/Detail
based on SAPUI5).

Click the Catalog button to search for the Gateway service created in Part II.

And if you followed exactly the same steps as mine, youll be facing this error There are no
addressable collections in the service:

Step 4: troubleshooting
It is not possible to complete the wizard without solving the above problem. So after some
research, I found out that when creating your entity set (see Part II step 2), you should flag the
Addressable checkbox. But, when I did this and tried to re-generate my service, I faced the
exact same issue as in Part II step 5: the system kept telling me that everything was correctly
generated, but nothing was changed at all (Im wondering if this is because Im creating LOCAL
objects I dont know really). [Update: Sebastien BENOIT added a comment to part II of
this blog series explaining that to regenerate your service after a change, you need first
to delete the assignment to a system, then delete the service itself, only then will your
changes be taken into account so thats worth giving it a try instead of recreating the
service from scratch like I did below]
The problem is: this time I couldnt find any workaround (deleting the generated classes to
force the system to create new ones seems to have no effect), so I had to create a new service
from scratch. And to avoid any more surprises (even if the Addressable flag is probably the
only one missing) I flagged almost every checkboxes:
I saved my new service, activated it, etc. (see Part II step 3 and 4).
Once done, I was able to complete the Eclipses wizard in order to create my SAPUI5 mobile
app with two views:

However I couldnt test it: when selecting the index.html page that had been generated for me,
and choosing Run as >> Web App Preview in the context menu, only a blank page was
displayed. I spent a lot of time trying to understand the reason behind this failure. In the end I
gave up. As far as I understand, this problem could be related to some Cross-domain-origin
policy and you need to install/configure a reverse proxy to by-pass this limitation (which is
above my current skills). So lets cross our fingers and see if we can still deploy this app on our
mobile, and use it.