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You don't even need SAP Gateway to web enable your ABAP system. I did a demojam in 2014 on a NW 7.02SP6 system (that didn't support Gateway or UI5) that showed a simple web contact list, using the OpenUI5 framework.
Embarrassingly, I discovered, on the day of the demojam, that Thomas Jung had done something very similar but with jQuery (which UI5 is based on) in 2008, which would have meant a 6.40 or earlier ABAP stack
You don't even need SAP Gateway to web enable your ABAP system. I did a demojam in 2014 on a NW 7.02SP6 system (that didn't support Gateway or UI5) that showed a simple web contact list, using the OpenUI5 framework.
https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-members/a-simple-ui5-application-running-against-abap-without-the-sap-ui5-add-on/ba-p/13087546
Embarrassingly, I discovered, on the day of the demojam, that Thomas Jung had done something very similar but with jQuery (which UI5 is based on) in 2008, which would have meant a 6.40 or earlier ABAP stack
https://community.sap.com/t5/additional-blogs-by-sap/abap-freak-show-jquery-for-bsp/ba-p/12841769
PS I think this was the Melbourne conference where Jelena did some presentations.