Reference apps
A whole application to read rather than a snippet to copy — somewhere to see how the pieces sit together once there are more than three of them.
Overview
No core answer is documented.
Not covered: SAP publishes its reference applications as samples, and a sample demonstrates a capability rather than providing it, so what SAP publishes is evidence here and not a provider artifact. What a reference application is for, being read end to end, is also what makes it age fastest.
Assessed from who provides it, and both providers are independent. SAP's own applications, the capire samples and the SAP-samples repositories among them, are held as samples that demonstrate this capability, which leaves the state where it is.
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From Concept to action: Hands-On with the CAP Operator and the Partner Reference ApplicationFrom Concept to action: Hands-On with the CAP Operator and the Partner Reference ApplicationThe CAP Operator applied to a real application rather than a sample of its own — SAP's Partner Reference Application, taken from plugin integration through containerisation to custom resources. The transition to CRDs is the part that repays attention: it is where the deployment stops being an mta and becomes Kubernetes.ChristianWeiss, published 2026-05-21
Automate BTP Custom Domain certificates using Let's EncryptAutomate BTP Custom Domain certificates using Let's EncryptCertificate lifecycle management as an application: a CAP backend, a Fiori elements UI, the Custom Domain service, Cloud Foundry routes and the Job Scheduler, so requests, renewals and cleanup stop being manual. Part two of the author's BTP Toolbox.Ben, published 2026-03-19
Extending SAP Sales and Service Cloud V2 Using CAPExtending SAP Sales and Service Cloud V2 Using CAPAn extension target that does not run on BTP at all — Sales and Service Cloud V2 sits directly on hyperscalers — so the separation between core and extension is enforced rather than encouraged. That constraint is what makes the post worth reading.Quablab, published 2025-07-09
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The CAPstone Project: A Journey from Component to CloudThe CAPstone Project: A Journey from Component to CloudA React and Vite front end on a CAP backend, written for two readers at once — the React developer curious about SAP, and the CAP developer wondering about modern front ends. Predates CAP's own React and Vue support.LOKESH_GHOSH, published 2025-07-05
An Innovative Language Exchange App developed with SAP Build Apps, CAP, Kyma, and OpenAIAn Innovative Language Exchange App developed with SAP Build Apps, CAP, Kyma, and OpenAIA dormant internal app at SAP Japan revived with AI, built to solve a problem the team actually had — colleagues who could not talk to each other. Build Apps on the front, CAP on Kyma behind it, OpenAI in the middle.javieryw, published 2024-01-31
An Innovative Language Exchange App developed with SAP Build Apps, CAP, Kyma, and OpenAI
LLM integration changed in @cap-js/ai 1.0.0, 2026-04-28. Affects Runnable code.
Full Stack TypeScript App for Cloud Foundry - Sample RepositoryFull Stack TypeScript App for Cloud Foundry - Sample RepositoryA whole repository rather than a snippet: a CAP Node.js service and a freestyle SAPUI5 application, both in TypeScript, arranged for Cloud Foundry. The build process gets its own section, which is where a TypeScript full-stack project usually goes wrong.former_member66, published 2021-12-09
Full Stack TypeScript App for Cloud Foundry - Sample Repository
TypeScript patterns changed in @cap-js/cds-typer 0.5.0, 2023-07-25. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
The End2End Journey: Advocates Service – CAP Service, OData V2/4 & REST in One single ProjectThe End2End Journey: Advocates Service – CAP Service, OData V2/4 & REST in One single ProjectOne CAP service exposing OData V2, OData V4 and REST at the same time, which is unusual enough to be worth the read on its own. Part of an end-to-end series, deployed on Cloud Foundry against HANA Cloud, so the protocol question sits inside a whole application rather than a snippet.KRiedelsheimer, published 2021-05-06
The End2End Journey: Advocates Service – CAP Service, OData V2/4 & REST in One single Project
OData changed in @cap-js-community/odata-v2-adapter 1.10.0, 2023-04-05. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
UI5ers Buzz #56: New full-stack UI5 sample app featuring CAP + OData V4 + draft modeUI5ers Buzz #56: New full-stack UI5 sample app featuring CAP + OData V4 + draft modeA sample app published as code rather than described — SAPUI5 over a CAP service with OData V4 and draft mode — and the note that it was built on what the team learned from an application written in March 2020 to help the German Foreign Office repatriate citizens. That provenance is unusual and worth keeping.AndreasKunz, published 2020-11-06
Develop a Full-Stack CAP Application Following SAP BTP Developer's GuideDevelop a Full-Stack CAP Application Following SAP BTP Developer's GuideThe eight-part path SAP's own Developer's Guide prescribes: a CAP service, Fiori Elements over it, custom logic, authorization, tests, and the preparation deployment needs. It is the closest thing to an official answer to 'what does a whole CAP application look like', which is why it sits under reference applications rather than under any one of the capabilities it touches.SAP
Build a Business Application Using CAP for JavaBuild a Business Application Using CAP for JavaThe Java counterpart to the Node.js path — eight tutorials, around two and a half hours, from a generated project to a running service. Worth having indexed separately rather than folded in with the Node.js one: the runtimes diverge most in exactly the places a first application touches, and following the wrong path is a slow way to find that out.SAP
Build a Business Application Using CAP for Node.jsBuild a Business Application Using CAP for Node.jsThe Node.js introduction path, and the shorter of the pair — the runtime most CAP writing assumes, which is why the Java path exists separately.SAP
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bookshop-demobookshop-demoSimple CDS bookshop — the reference model most CAP explanations build on.independent, cap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
bookshop-demo
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bookshop-javabookshop-javaThe Java implementation of the capire/bookshop primer, CAP's own getting-started sample: the same application built on Spring Boot instead of Node.js, started with mvn spring-boot:run.sap official, cap
bookshop-java
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bookstore-javabookstore-javaThe Java implementation of the capire/bookstore composite app: bookshop, reviews, orders and a common content package, each its own repository.sap official, cap
bookstore-java
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cap-materialbom-graphcap-materialbom-graphA CAP sample that walks a material bill of materials on the server and draws it as a UI5 network graph in a custom section of a Fiori elements object page, on SQLite with no deployment.independent, cap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
cap-materialbom-graph
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cap-ui5-gpt-chatcap-ui5-gpt-chatA working chat application on CAP and SAPUI5 against the OpenAI API — selectable models, per-user chat history in the database, maintainable chatbot personalities, and streaming responses as an option per chat.independent, cap
It calls the OpenAI API directly with a key in the environment. It was written in early 2023 and last touched in May 2023, which is before SAP AI Core and the CAP LLM plugins existed — so read it for the shape of the application, not for how a CAP service should reach a model today.
cap-ui5-gpt-chat
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capire/bookshopcapire/bookshopThe primer of CAP: a bookshop small enough to read in one sitting, whose Books and Authors every CAP explanation, including this graph's, assumes you have already seen.sap official, cap
capire/bookshop
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capire/bookstorecapire/bookstoreA composite application assembled from separately deployed services — bookshop, reviews, orders and a common content package — rather than one project with more folders in it.sap official, cap
capire/bookstore
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capire/incidents-appcapire/incidents-appThe Incident Management reference application — the one SAP's own tutorial paths build, step by step, and the model cds add incidents-sample drops into a project.sap official, cap
capire/incidents-app
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liteinventorymanagementliteinventorymanagementA CAP reference application for a lightweight local inventory system, covering goods receipt, goods issue and stock reporting by plant, running on PostgreSQL on SAP BTP, hyperscaler.sap official, cap
liteinventorymanagement
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SAP-samples/btp-developer-guide-capSAP-samples/btp-developer-guide-capThe full-stack Incident Management CAP application built to accompany the SAP BTP Developer's Guide tutorials, taken from a first project through Fiori Elements, authorization and deployment to Cloud Foundry and Kyma.sap official, cap
SAP-samples/btp-developer-guide-cap
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SAP-samples/cap-agentic-engineeredSAP-samples/cap-agentic-engineeredA Financial Risk Analyzer built to show what changes when a coding agent is grounded by SAP's MCP servers rather than left to its training data — and it ships the AGENTS.md and skills that did the grounding.sap official, cap
SAP-samples/cap-agentic-engineered
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SAP-samples/cap-sflightSAP-samples/cap-sflightA travel-booking reference application built with CAP and SAP Fiori elements, whose same UIs run against a Node.js and a Java backend so the two stacks can be compared directly.sap official, cap
SAP-samples/cap-sflight
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SAP-samples/cloud-cap-samples-javaSAP-samples/cloud-cap-samples-javaThe bookshop web application that demonstrates the CAP Java SDK end to end, from CDS domain models and OData V4 to a generated Fiori UI, multitenancy and deployment to Cloud Foundry and Kyma.sap official, cap
SAP-samples/cloud-cap-samples-java
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SAP-samples/e-mobility-driver-appSAP-samples/e-mobility-driver-appA CAP-based progressive web app that lets electric-vehicle drivers manage charging badges, start and stop charging sessions, and find stations, proxying three SAP E-Mobility OData APIs.sap official, cap
SAP-samples/e-mobility-driver-app
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SAP-samples/ui5-cap-event-appSAP-samples/ui5-cap-event-appAn event-attendee registration app that pairs a freestyle SAPUI5 end-user UI and a Fiori elements admin UI over one Node.js CAP backend, built to show OData V4 draft handling end to end.sap official, cap
SAP-samples/ui5-cap-event-app
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slp-supplier-validationslp-supplier-validationA CAP reference application for validating supplier registration data from Ariba Supplier Lifecycle Management against third-party providers before an erroneous record reaches SAP Master Data Governance or ERP.sap official, cap
slp-supplier-validation
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tailspendmanagementtailspendmanagementA CAP reference application for tail spend management: preferred suppliers, region and commodity code mapping, automatic RFP event rules and SAP ERP demand.sap official, cap
tailspendmanagement
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ui5-cap-todoui5-cap-todoA todo application with a CAP backend and a SAPUI5 frontend, both in TypeScript, connected over OData V4 in one pnpm workspace, with projects and their todos in a master-detail FlexibleColumnLayout.independent, cap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
ui5-cap-todo
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xtravelsxtravelsA travel-booking application built on the master data that xflights publishes, composing another package's schema into its own rather than owning master data itself.sap official, cap
xtravels
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xtravels-javaxtravels-javaThe Java twin of xtravels: a Spring Boot travel-booking application built on master data from xflights-java, which CAP mocks automatically unless a hybrid profile connects a running instance.sap official, cap
xtravels-java
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