How to connect to database

[vinay_mhaske]

Hello Experts,

I am new to SAP UI5 and have few questions:

1. Can we connect directly to any Database (SQL Server, Oracle, SAP BW etc) and bring data to SAP UI5 app?
2. Can we connect to a Web Service to get live data in SAP UI5 app?
3. Are there any SAP official tutorials for UI5? Could you share the link?

Would appreciate if you can share any guides or tutorials and help me to start with SAP UI5.

Thank you.

Regards,

Vinay Mhaske

[GrahamRobbo]

Hi Vinay,

SAPUI5 is built upon JQuery as it's foundation. You can perform connectivity to any backend that JQuery supports and in addition SAP have built in extra handling for OData. You can also add any other framework you like to support other data sources - it is after all just HTML & Javascript.

The evaluation package for SAPUI5 includes tutorials and documentation. You can find more at http://developers.sap.com.

Cheers

Graham Robbo