It guides developers along a golden path of proven best practices, which are served out of the box by generic providers cloud-natively, thereby relieving application developers from tedious recurring tasks.

SAP Cloud Application Programming Model Build cloud-native applications with maximized productivity at minimized costs, and proven best practices served out of the box.

Alternatively, you can use CAP in SAP Build Code, or other cloud-based setups, such as GitHub codespaces. Prerequisites Node.js — required for installing the cds command line interface SQLite …

This guide provides instructions on how to use databases with CAP applications. Out of the box-support is provided for SAP HANA, SQLite, H2 (Java only), and PostgreSQL.

This documentation — named 'capire', italian for understand — is the primary source of information for the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model. It's organized as follows:

After the recent changes, the running CAP Java application is still not exposing any service endpoints. So, let's go on feeding it with two service definitions for different use cases:

The Model Reflection API is a set of interfaces, which provide the ability to introspect a CDS model and retrieve details on the services, types, entities, and their elements that are defined by the model.

CDS is the backbone of the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP). It provides the means to declaratively capture service definitions and data models, queries, and expressions.

The CAP Java SDK supports lean application design by its modular architecture, that means you pick the required features and add them to your application dependencies on demand. It enables local …

Release Notes This section provides information about what is new and what has changed in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) since the last release.