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RAP120 - Build SAP Fiori Apps with ABAP Cloud and SAP Joule for developers

Description

This repository contains the material for the hands-on session RAP120 - Build SAP Fiori Apps with ABAP Cloud and SAP Joule for developers💎

Table of Content

• Requirements for attending this workshop
• Overview
• Exercises
• Recordings
• Known Issues
• How to obtain support
• Further Information

Requirements for attending this workshop

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To complete the practical exercises in this workshop, you need the latest version of the ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse (ADT) on your laptop or PC and the access to a suitable ABAP system* that is connected to the SAP AI Core.

The appropriate flavor of the ABAP Flight Reference Scenario must be imported into the relevant system.

(*) SAP BTP ABAP environment and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition are currently supported.

⚠ Exception regarding SAP-led events, such as "Sapphire / ASUG108", "ABAP Developer Day" and "SAP CodeJam"

→ A dedicated ABAP system for the hands-on workshop participants will be provided.
→ Access to the system details for the workshop will be provided by the SAP instructors during the session.
→ No need for you to install the ABAP Flight Reference Scenario.

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The requirements to follow the exercises in this repository are:

1. Install the latest Eclipse platform and the latest ABAP Development Tools (ADT) plugin
2. Create an ABAP Cloud Project in your ADT installation
3. Adapt the Web Browser settings in your ADT installation

Overview

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In this hands-on session, you will learn how to use ABAP capabilities in SAP Joule for Developers, including predictive code completion, unit test generation for ABAP CDS and ABAP code, and code explanation to speed up your development with ABAP Cloud.

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This hands-on workshop dives into creating and testing a transactional SAP Fiori elements app with Joule, using the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP) and its UI services.

You will build a simple transactional app to manage travel bookings based on a managed business object (BO) with a two nodes: Travel and Booking.

ABAP Cloud is the development model for building clean core compliant apps, services, and extensions on SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP BTP ABAP environment. ABAP Cloud covers different development scenarios such as transactional, analytical, integration, and enterprise search scenarios. RAP ist at the heart of ABAP Cloud for building transactional SAP Fiori apps, OData-based Web API, local APIs, and business events.

The resulting app will look like this:

Exercises

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Follow these steps to build a SAP Fiori App with Joule in ABAP Cloud

Exercises	--
Getting Started	--
Exercise 1: Generate a SAP Fiori app using the ABAP Cloud Generator: Transactional App from Scratch	--
Exercise 2: Enhance the CDS data model and Create CDS unit tests	--
Exercise 3: Analyze the ABAP helper class and create ABAP unit tests	--
Exercise 4: Add a validation	--
Exercise 5: Add a determination	--

Optional Exercises

Exercises	--
Exercise 6: Add a determination and enhance it with the ABAP AI SDK powered by ISLM	--
Exercise 7: Play around with the ABAP Cloud Generator - Transactional App from Scratch	--

Recordings

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▶️ Watch the replay of the virtual TechEd 2025 Session: Explore SAP Joule for developers, with ABAP AI capabilities.

⚠Known Issues

No known issues.

🆘How to obtain support

Create an issue in this repository if you find a bug or have questions about the content.

For additional support, ask a question in SAP Community.

Further Information

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You can find more information about the generative AI in ABAP, ABAP Cloud, RAP here:

• Generative AI in ABAP Cloud
• ABAP Cloud Roadmap Information - GenAI
• ABAP Cloud development model
• Getting Started with ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP)

License

Copyright (c) 2025-2026 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company and abap-platform-rap120 contributors. All rights reserved. This project is licensed under the Apache Software License, version 2.0 except as noted otherwise in the LICENSE file; you may not use any file of this project except in compliance with the License.

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the LICENSE for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.