Terminologies in UI5 In our globalized world most companies have a diverse international customer base, selling products to consumers and customers in different industries all around the globe. As different as these industries might appear, the func...

Why so synchronous? Today we have some bad news for you: We had to remove cool features like synchronous requests and eval statements. Sad. Ok, jokes aside, it was time for UI5 to evolve and provide asynchronous paths for all our framework feat...

As UI5 has grown over the years, the size of the jQuery.sap.* modules have also increased quite a bit and applications are still bound to use global variables to access the provided functionality. In our effort to decrease the UI5 footprint, as w...