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#BTP #SAPCAP: Quirky Nuggets (N03-N04)#BTP #SAPCAP: Quirky Nuggets (N03-N04)Two unrelated findings in one post, which is the format of the series: the OData operators tried against a CAP service — with a schema of deliberately awkward types to try them on — and undeploying database artifacts, which is the half people hit in anger. Numbered N03 and N04 of a run that continues either side.Ajit_K_Panda, published 2023-06-05
#BTP #SAPCAP: Quirky Nuggets (N03-N04)
Deployment changed in @sap/cds-dk 8.9.0, 2025-03-31. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
AI-assisted full stack development using model context protocol serversAI-assisted full stack development using model context protocol serversMCP servers in Visual Studio Code used to configure, query and change a full-stack application built with CAP, CDS and OData: the agent access to your code concern, a coding assistant reading and changing the project it works in. The abstract names no server, so neither @cap-js/mcp-server nor any other is attached, and it does not say which changes are made. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Sergio Guerrero, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Consume Remote Services in a Full-Stack CAP ApplicationConsume Remote Services in a Full-Stack CAP ApplicationExtending the Developer's Guide application with a remote S/4HANA service — connectivity, importing the Business Partner API, and running against it. SAP publishes this as four separate paths: mock server or real S/4HANA Cloud, times Cloud Foundry or Kyma. One entry covers all four, because the difference between them is which backend and which runtime, not what you learn.SAP
Extend SAP SuccessFactors on SAP BTP with the SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelExtend SAP SuccessFactors on SAP BTP with the SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelTwelve tutorials, about two hours, building a side-by-side extension of SuccessFactors on BTP. The spine is remote services: importing the SuccessFactors OData service definitions into a CAP model, then treating them as entities the extension reads and writes through, rather than as an API called from a handler. Indexed as one entry because the parts only make sense in order.SAP
Serve your application over MCPSAP only
CAP Node.js Expert Session #6 - The MCP AdapterCAP Node.js Expert Session #6 - The MCP AdapterDaniel Schlachter and DJ Adams add @cap-js/mcp to a bookshop service, inspect its describe, query and action tools, and query the catalogue through an AI agent. The session distinguishes this runtime adapter from the development-time MCP server and demonstrates automatic registration of the running service with a local agent. The recording describes the adapter as beta in July 2026, with read-only queries and writes through unbound actions.
Examine the details of the Model Context Protocol on startupExamine the details of the Model Context Protocol on startupWhat the MCP adapter actually does when a CAP server boots, watched rather than described — the companion to the tutorial that switches it on.
Third-Party MCP Server Access to SAP Solutions on BTPThird-Party MCP Server Access to SAP Solutions on BTPDescribes external MCP servers and custom servers on BTP, assigning their operators responsibility for authentication, scoped identity, API limits, logging and lifecycle. The permitted use remains conditional on the SAP API Policy, while SAP Integration Suite and Joule Studio are described as SAP-provided paths. Hosting a server on BTP does not automatically supply its governance controls.Dhawal Joshi, Harut Ter-Minasyan, Mirko Günther
Analytical queriesUnmapped
Building an Analytical List Page with CAP OData V4Building an Analytical List Page with CAP OData V4The annotations a CAP OData V4 service needs before an Analytical List Page will render — the write-up behind the cap-alp sample indexed here. Candid about its provenance: the author credits a GitHub repository she found the approach in, and notes that the repository is no longer available, which is the whole argument for indexing the reasoning rather than only linking the code.published 2023-06-12
Building an Analytical List Page with CAP OData V4
cap-alp: no published releases, repository quiet for 24 months. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Empowering Your Data Analytics with GPT-3 and SAP CAP IntegrationEmpowering Your Data Analytics with GPT-3 and SAP CAP IntegrationFree text in, SQL out, answer back in a sentence — the model writes the query, CAP runs it, and the model turns the rows into prose. Written in the GPT-3 window, so the model access has dated, but the three-step shape has not, and it is a different bet from retrieval: nothing is embedded, the schema is the context.Former Member, published 2023-03-10
Fiori Elements Analytical Table with CAP: Does it work with V2 and V4?Fiori Elements Analytical Table with CAP: Does it work with V2 and V4?A question in the title and an answer in the post, with the boundary drawn carefully: this is an analytical table inside a List Report, not the Analytical List Page, and the two protocol versions do not behave the same.published 2023-04-03
Fiori Elements Analytical Table with CAP: Does it work with V2 and V4?
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects Runnable code.
AttachmentsSAP only
How to transfer file from CAP backsideHow to transfer file from CAP backsideA PDF arriving from the front end, stored against the record with @Core.MediaType, and then sent on to an external service for parsing. Short, and the second half is the part that is not in the plugin documentation: getting the bytes back out of the model to forward them somewhere else.published 2023-09-14
How to transfer file from CAP backside
Attachments has changed 3 times since this was published, most recently in @cap-js/sdm 1.0.0, 2024-06-26. Affects Runnable code.
Presenting sap-cap-sdm-plugin: Effortless Integration Between CAP (Node.js) and DMSPresenting sap-cap-sdm-plugin: Effortless Integration Between CAP (Node.js) and DMSThe author's introduction of the plugin, and unusually clear about its lineage: the idea came from a post about cds.plugins whose example did nothing more than append an emoji to annotated properties, and the groundwork was an earlier library, sap-cloud-cmis-client, that this builds on. Worth reading for how a plugin gets conceived as much as for what it does with Document Management Service.published 2023-10-02
Presenting sap-cap-sdm-plugin: Effortless Integration Between CAP (Node.js) and DMS
sap-cap-sdm-plugin is archived. Its last release was 2024-03-24. Affects Runnable code.
Upload attachments in a Freestyle UI5 and CAP appUpload attachments in a Freestyle UI5 and CAP appAttachments where the UI is freestyle rather than Fiori elements, so none of the generated upload behaviour applies and both ends have to be written.published 2023-12-19
Data modellingSAP only
#CAP-TechBytes Input Validation#CAP-TechBytes Input ValidationThe annotations one at a time — @mandatory, @assert.unique, @assert.range including the enum form, @assert.format — each with what it produces. Ends on error handling, which is the part that decides whether any of it is usable from a UI.Thajunniza, published 2023-07-07
Analyze and optimize ABAP Cloud model apps built on core data servicesAnalyze and optimize ABAP Cloud model apps built on core data servicesPerformance anti-patterns in data models built with ABAP CDS under ABAP Cloud applications, and the tools that find them: the abstract names ABAP cross trace, the SQL analyzer (PlanViz) in Visual Studio Code and the SAP HANA database explorer as what the session uses to follow a bottleneck from the application to the database. The anti-patterns are taken from real business applications, which is where the data modelling edge holds; which ones are shown is not in the abstract. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Ingo Braeuninger, Robert Werlich, Steffen Siegmund and Thomas Fiedler, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Learn how to define constraints declaratively in your CDS modelLearn how to define constraints declaratively in your CDS modelConstraints expressed in the model rather than checked in a handler — the distinction the atlas draws between input validation the framework enforces and validation somebody writes.SAP
Database connectorsSAP only
Agentic memory: Knowledge graph engine and recall in SAP HANA CloudAgentic memory: Knowledge graph engine and recall in SAP HANA CloudThe knowledge graph engine in SAP HANA Cloud as an agent's memory: what the engine, the graph side of graph, spatial and document data, does in an agentic workflow, how an agent keeps what it learns there, the state agent tooling holds between turns, and the SAP AI Core integration through which the database calls LLMs and tabular foundation models such as SAP-RPT-1. The abstract names the engine, the memory role and the AI Core link and does not say how the memory is written or read. DA263 on Wednesday 28 October is a two-hour hands-on on the same engine with a different cast. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Markus Fath and Shraddha Shetty, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Analyze and optimize ABAP Cloud model apps built on core data servicesAnalyze and optimize ABAP Cloud model apps built on core data servicesPerformance anti-patterns in data models built with ABAP CDS under ABAP Cloud applications, and the tools that find them: the abstract names ABAP cross trace, the SQL analyzer (PlanViz) in Visual Studio Code and the SAP HANA database explorer as what the session uses to follow a bottleneck from the application to the database. The anti-patterns are taken from real business applications, which is where the data modelling edge holds; which ones are shown is not in the abstract. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Ingo Braeuninger, Robert Werlich, Steffen Siegmund and Thomas Fiedler, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Build AI agents and applications natively on SAP HANA CloudBuild AI agents and applications natively on SAP HANA CloudSAP HANA Cloud as the base for agentic applications on SAP Business AI Platform: the session goes through CAP, the SAP HANA Cloud vector engine and SAP AI Core, with architecture patterns and lessons learned from building AI-supported applications. SAP's abstract names the three parts of that stack and the vector engine as the database's feature in it, and describes none of the patterns. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin; also DA113V, virtual), presented by Christoph Morgen and Shraddha Shetty, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Build your custom knowledge layer with SAP HANA CloudBuild your custom knowledge layer with SAP HANA CloudSAP HANA Cloud's multi-model engines, the knowledge graph engine among them, as the base for a custom knowledge layer over the enterprise's data, with SAP Business Data Cloud as the product that includes the database. Graph, spatial and document data put to an AI use; the abstract names the graph engine and not the query language or the vector side. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin; also ST108V, virtual), presented by Niklas Siemer and Sebastian Schmidt, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
CAP with PostgreSQL DB alternate to HANA Cloud DB - Part 1CAP with PostgreSQL DB alternate to HANA Cloud DB - Part 1Bootstrapping a CAP project on PostgreSQL, framed as a choice that depends on the client rather than on the technology. Short, and part two is where it gets debuggable.ramonlee5, published 2023-10-10
Flexible analytics at speed: Calculation views in SAP Business Data CloudFlexible analytics at speed: Calculation views in SAP Business Data CloudCalculation views in SAP HANA Cloud, the reusable analytic modelling blocks built in its graphical modelling environment, with three newer parts the abstract names: AI-assisted modelling, refactoring, and advanced materialisation, and the way the views sit inside SAP Business Data Cloud. What a materialisation is chosen on, and what the AI assistance generates, is not stated. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Hansika Colomboge Dona, Jan Zwickel, Niklas Siemer and Thomas Hammer, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Lets Deep dive into CAPM and HANA Cloud --> HANACapLets Deep dive into CAPM and HANA Cloud --> HANACapShort, and framed as what the author does day to day on BTP rather than as a tutorial: where CAPM meets HANA Cloud and which pieces have to agree.shivamshukla12, published 2023-07-16
Lets Deep dive into CAPM and HANA Cloud --> HANACap
Database connectors has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects Runnable code.
Modernize your database landscape with SAP HANA CloudModernize your database landscape with SAP HANA CloudWhy to move a database estate to SAP HANA Cloud, and the migration tools and services for doing so, which is the platform migration concern. SAP's abstract is one sentence and names none of the tools. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Niklas Siemer and Roman Belosludtsev, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Road map for SAP HANA Cloud: What’s next for the AI databaseRoad map for SAP HANA Cloud: What’s next for the AI databaseSAP's road map for SAP HANA Cloud, which the abstract places as a core component of SAP Business AI Platform within SAP Business Data Cloud. The abstract promises a firsthand look at what is next for the database and names no feature, release or date, so the two edges rest on the products it names and nothing more. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Niklas Siemer and Thomas Hammer, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Run and Deploy SAP CAP (Java) with PostgreSQL on SAP BTP Cloud FoundryRun and Deploy SAP CAP (Java) with PostgreSQL on SAP BTP Cloud FoundrySuperseded by its own author: the post now opens with a notice that @sap/cds 7.0.0 brought native PostgreSQL support and that @cap-js/postgres should be used instead of the packages described below. Kept because that notice is the record of when the community adapter stopped being the answer.shanthakumar_krishnaswamy, published 2023-04-04
Run and Deploy SAP CAP (Java) with PostgreSQL on SAP BTP Cloud Foundry
cds-pg. Affects Runnable code.
Run and Deploy SAP CAP (Java) with PostgreSQL using Official Database Adapter @cap-js/postgresRun and Deploy SAP CAP (Java) with PostgreSQL using Official Database Adapter @cap-js/postgresThe post that records a handover. The author's earlier writing relied on the community projects cds-pg and cds-dbm; this one states that both were deprecated in favour of the official PostgreSQL support arriving with @sap/cds 7, and rewrites the path around @cap-js/postgres. For CAP Java it takes a different route to the initial schema.sql than the Node.js case, and it is candid that automatic schema deployment is convenient but not always what you want. Dated evidence for why two artifacts here went quiet.shanthakumar_krishnaswamy, published 2023-08-02
Run and Deploy SAP CAP (Java) with PostgreSQL using Official Database Adapter @cap-js/postgres
cds 7, line ended. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Run and Deploy SAP CAP (Node.js or Java) with PostgreSQL on SAP BTP Cloud FoundryRun and Deploy SAP CAP (Node.js or Java) with PostgreSQL on SAP BTP Cloud FoundryBoth runtimes in one walkthrough, and it stops on schema evolution — which is the reason to read it rather than one of the several other PostgreSQL posts here, since that is where the PostgreSQL story diverges from HANA's and the deploy stops being automatic.TiaXu, published 2023-07-12
Run and Deploy SAP CAP (Node.js or Java) with PostgreSQL on SAP BTP Cloud Foundry
Database connectors has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
SAP CAP (Java) with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQLSAP CAP (Java) with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQLPostgreSQL, but the hyperscaler's own managed global database rather than BTP's option — Aurora, from CAP Java. One of a pair published the same day, the other being Azure's equivalent.shanthakumar_krishnaswamy, published 2023-08-02
SAP CAP (Java) with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
Database connectors has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
SAP CAP (Java) with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQLSAP CAP (Java) with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQLThe Azure half of the pair: Cosmos DB speaking PostgreSQL, used from CAP Java. Same shape as the Aurora post, and reading both is how you see what is actually portable between them.shanthakumar_krishnaswamy, published 2023-08-02
SAP CAP (Java) with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Database connectors has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
SAP HANA Cloud advisors and automationSAP HANA Cloud advisors and automationSAP HANA Cloud's advisors and the tasks they hand off: the elastic compute node, the partition, index and native storage extension advisors that produce recommendations for performance and efficiency, and SAP Automation Pilot as the service that runs the resulting tasks, which is operations automation on the database. The abstract lists the features and stops there, so what each advisor recommends and how a recommendation becomes an Automation Pilot command is not stated. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Hansika Colomboge Dona, Hui Li, Javier Martin and Roman Belosludtsev, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
SAP HANA Cloud as a self-managed database: Advisors and automationSAP HANA Cloud as a self-managed database: Advisors and automationSAP HANA Cloud advisors generate recommendations for database administration, aimed at system performance and efficiency, and SAP Automation Pilot runs the manual and administrative tasks around the database as automated processes, which is the operations automation concern on the database side. SAP's abstract names the two services and claims reduced operational overhead; which advisors exist and which tasks the automation covers are not said. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Javier Martin and Roman Belosludtsev, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
SAP HANA Cloud as the AI database for SAP Business Data CloudSAP HANA Cloud as the AI database for SAP Business Data CloudSAP HANA Cloud as the AI database at the centre of SAP Business Data Cloud: the strategy behind its AI-first direction, and a Carl Zeiss speaker on how it runs in production today. The abstract names the two products and the customer and no feature, workload or figure, so the edges rest on the products as its subject. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Kush Kashyap and Thomas Hammer, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
SAP HANA Cloud: The data foundation for contextualizing and reasoningSAP HANA Cloud: The data foundation for contextualizing and reasoningWhere SAP is taking SAP HANA Cloud, described in the abstract as the anchor of SAP's data strategy and a unified layer to store, contextualise and reason across a business, and what that means for a data platform decision. The abstract is a direction statement and names no feature, release or date, so the one edge rests on the product itself. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin; also ST106V, virtual), presented by Matthew Zenus and Stefan Baeuerle, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Stop guessing, start counting: How generative AI fixed an inventory messStop guessing, start counting: How generative AI fixed an inventory messAn inventory-counting application a business built on SAP Business AI Platform with SAP HANA Cloud and generative AI, to replace recount lists kept by gut feel across SAP ERP Central Component, SAP S/4HANA and Microsoft Excel; the talk promises the app, its architecture and what went wrong. The generative AI part is LLM integration from application code; the abstract names HANA Cloud and generative AI as the two building blocks and says nothing about how either is used. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Ranjeet Kumar, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Talking to your database: The new data exploration tools in SAP HANA CloudTalking to your database: The new data exploration tools in SAP HANA CloudSAP HANA Cloud's new data exploration tools take a business question in plain language, find the right database objects and run the query, with no data model and no SQL written beforehand, shown live on a standard business data set. SAP's abstract says the session covers how the tools work, what they need and where they hit their limits, and states none of the three. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Anna Hartmann, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Unlock predictive and generative AI with your data in SAP HANA CloudUnlock predictive and generative AI with your data in SAP HANA CloudThe AI features SAP lists for SAP HANA Cloud: the function libraries for tabular prediction and forecasting, where predictive models run inside the database, the vector engine, the knowledge graph engine, which is graph, spatial and document data put to generative use, and SQL to LLM calls. The abstract names the engines and the use cases they are meant for and gives no detail of any one of them. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin; also DA204V, virtual), presented by Christoph Morgen and Javier Martin, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Use SAP HANA as the Database for a CAP Java ApplicationUse SAP HANA as the Database for a CAP Java ApplicationMoving a CAP Java application off the development database onto HANA, which is the step where the persistence choice stops being invisible.SAP
Schema evolutionCommunity only
Run and Deploy SAP CAP (Node.js or Java) with PostgreSQL on SAP BTP Cloud FoundryRun and Deploy SAP CAP (Node.js or Java) with PostgreSQL on SAP BTP Cloud FoundryBoth runtimes in one walkthrough, and it stops on schema evolution — which is the reason to read it rather than one of the several other PostgreSQL posts here, since that is where the PostgreSQL story diverges from HANA's and the deploy stops being automatic.TiaXu, published 2023-07-12
Run and Deploy SAP CAP (Node.js or Java) with PostgreSQL on SAP BTP Cloud Foundry
Database connectors has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
DestinationsSAP only
Connecting On Premise Mail Destination and Sending Email Using SAP Cloud SDK JavaScript Version 3 on SAP CAPConnecting On Premise Mail Destination and Sending Email Using SAP Cloud SDK JavaScript Version 3 on SAP CAPMail from CAP through a company's own SMTP server rather than a hosted one, which is the case the existing answers did not cover — the author names them and says why each failed here: one needed an SMTP provider like Mailtrap, another solved it in Java. What is left is the connectivity: an on-premise mail destination reached from Node, and a hybrid profile to test it against.codebrokerad, published 2023-02-14
Connecting On Premise Mail Destination and Sending Email Using SAP Cloud SDK JavaScript Version 3 on SAP CAP
Destinations changed in @sap-cloud-sdk/connectivity 4.0.0, 2025-03-04. Affects Runnable code.
Consume Remote Services in a Full-Stack CAP ApplicationConsume Remote Services in a Full-Stack CAP ApplicationExtending the Developer's Guide application with a remote S/4HANA service — connectivity, importing the Business Partner API, and running against it. SAP publishes this as four separate paths: mock server or real S/4HANA Cloud, times Cloud Foundry or Kyma. One entry covers all four, because the difference between them is which backend and which runtime, not what you learn.SAP
Consume SOAP Web Services in SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelConsume SOAP Web Services in SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelCalling a SOAP service from CAP — the case the remote-service story does not cover, since CAP's own import path speaks OData and OpenAPI.SAP
Extend SAP SuccessFactors on SAP BTP with the SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelExtend SAP SuccessFactors on SAP BTP with the SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelTwelve tutorials, about two hours, building a side-by-side extension of SuccessFactors on BTP. The spine is remote services: importing the SuccessFactors OData service definitions into a CAP model, then treating them as entities the extension reads and writes through, rather than as an API called from a handler. Indexed as one entry because the parts only make sense in order.SAP
Use the SAP Cloud SDK in the SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelUse the SAP Cloud SDK in the SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelReaching for the Cloud SDK from inside a CAP service, for the calls CAP's own remote services do not make.SAP
Document outputUnmapped
Using Custom Actions to display PDF from SAP BTP Forms service into a CAP SAPUI5 applicationUsing Custom Actions to display PDF from SAP BTP Forms service into a CAP SAPUI5 applicationA requirement that arrived after the application was finished — render a PDF from the record currently open on an object page — and the join it needed: the Forms service bound to the CAP application, a custom action on the service, and a button on the object page header calling it.rodfior, published 2023-01-30
Event MeshSAP only
[Blog Post] SAP Event Mesh - Consuming S4 events simultaneously in CAP-based applications and SAP Integration Suite[Blog Post] SAP Event Mesh - Consuming S4 events simultaneously in CAP-based applications and SAP Integration SuiteOne S/4HANA event, two consumers at once: a CAP Java application and SAP Integration Suite. Late in a long Deep Dive series and written as such — the queues, the S/4HANA connection and the Integration Suite side were all established in earlier posts, so this is the part where they meet.AyushKumar and vipul.khullar, published 2023-03-24
[Blog Post] SAP Event Mesh - Consuming S4 events simultaneously in CAP-based applications and SAP Integration Suite
Event Mesh changed in @sap/cds 10.0.3, 2026-07-02. Affects Runnable code.
Build real-time event-driven integrations for your enterpriseBuild real-time event-driven integrations for your enterpriseEvent-driven integration with SAP Integration Suite, advanced event mesh inside SAP Integration Suite: where events beat request-response, how publish and subscribe decouple systems, and what a phased move to event-driven integration looks like. Event Mesh as architecture; the abstract names no broker protocol and no CDS mapping. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Daniel Dorst and Karsten Strothmann, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Build your own event-driven scenario with advanced event meshBuild your own event-driven scenario with advanced event meshAn event-driven scenario built on SAP Integration Suite, advanced event mesh: queues, topics and subscriptions first, then filtering and event replay, in two parallel tracks, a guided one for newcomers and a second for experienced practitioners. It covers the brokered side of Event Mesh; which systems publish and consume, and which protocol the clients speak, is not stated. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Claudia Carabineiro, Emily Mui, Karsten Strothmann and Tobias Griebe, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Event Driven Architecture with Event Mesh – Part-2Event Driven Architecture with Event Mesh – Part-2Part 1 published a message and stopped there; this closes the loop by giving it somewhere to go. A REST API built in Integration Suite is registered as a webhook on the Event Mesh queue, and the chain is run end to end — CAP to Event Mesh to Integration Suite to Twilio — so the consumer side and the webhook configuration are what this adds.Avinash_Vaidya, published 2023-01-30
Event Driven Architecture with Event Mesh – Part-2
Event Mesh changed in @sap/cds 10.0.3, 2026-07-02. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Unlock composable business using SAP Integration Suite, advanced event meshUnlock composable business using SAP Integration Suite, advanced event meshSAP Integration Suite, advanced event mesh as SAP's product for event-driven, real-time and loosely coupled integration between SAP and third-party systems, which the abstract ties to composable business architecture. The session is about that product and the Event Mesh concern it answers; the abstract states the positioning and no feature, topic or protocol, and a speaker from CCB Management Services is listed without a stated case. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin; also IN111V, virtual), presented by Goran D. Stevanovic and Karsten Strothmann, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
NotificationsSAP only
Connecting On Premise Mail Destination and Sending Email Using SAP Cloud SDK JavaScript Version 3 on SAP CAPConnecting On Premise Mail Destination and Sending Email Using SAP Cloud SDK JavaScript Version 3 on SAP CAPMail from CAP through a company's own SMTP server rather than a hosted one, which is the case the existing answers did not cover — the author names them and says why each failed here: one needed an SMTP provider like Mailtrap, another solved it in Java. What is left is the connectivity: an on-premise mail destination reached from Node, and a hybrid profile to test it against.codebrokerad, published 2023-02-14
Connecting On Premise Mail Destination and Sending Email Using SAP Cloud SDK JavaScript Version 3 on SAP CAP
Destinations changed in @sap-cloud-sdk/connectivity 4.0.0, 2025-03-04. Affects Runnable code.
Agent access to your codeSAP and community
Agentic Engineering for SAP BTP ExtensionsAgentic Engineering for SAP BTP ExtensionsAn agent harness coordinates code generation across isolated Git worktrees, using a skills registry, SAP CAP MCP Server, Fiori MCP Server and UI5 Web Components MCP Server for development context. The diagram shows LiteLLM as a model proxy in front of SAP AI Core, while automated checks and review gate the generated changes. The worked scenario is CAP-based extensions on BTP, with specifications written before generation and reusable skills governed across teams.
AI-assisted full stack development using model context protocol serversAI-assisted full stack development using model context protocol serversMCP servers in Visual Studio Code used to configure, query and change a full-stack application built with CAP, CDS and OData: the agent access to your code concern, a coding assistant reading and changing the project it works in. The abstract names no server, so neither @cap-js/mcp-server nor any other is attached, and it does not say which changes are made. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Sergio Guerrero, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
OData to outcomes—Build AI-enabled SAP Fiori apps using SAP Fiori elementsOData to outcomes—Build AI-enabled SAP Fiori apps using SAP Fiori elementsA Fiori elements app built through SAP's MCP servers: the OData V4 service comes from the MCP server for RAP, which the atlas holds as the ADT MCP Server, or from @cap-js/mcp-server for CAP, and the UI from @sap-ux/fiori-mcp-server, with annotations and actions added before the app is tied to SAP's AI features. Agent access to your code on both the service and the UI side; SAP's abstract names the servers and the steps and says nothing about which AI features or which agent host. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Benedikt Schoelch, Sebastian Steinhauer, Sebastian Werner and Stefan Engelhardt, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Agent guidanceSAP and community
Agentic Engineering for SAP BTP ExtensionsAgentic Engineering for SAP BTP ExtensionsAn agent harness coordinates code generation across isolated Git worktrees, using a skills registry, SAP CAP MCP Server, Fiori MCP Server and UI5 Web Components MCP Server for development context. The diagram shows LiteLLM as a model proxy in front of SAP AI Core, while automated checks and review gate the generated changes. The worked scenario is CAP-based extensions on BTP, with specifications written before generation and reusable skills governed across teams.
Agent toolingSAP only
Agentic memory: Knowledge graph engine and recall in SAP HANA CloudAgentic memory: Knowledge graph engine and recall in SAP HANA CloudThe knowledge graph engine in SAP HANA Cloud as an agent's memory: what the engine, the graph side of graph, spatial and document data, does in an agentic workflow, how an agent keeps what it learns there, the state agent tooling holds between turns, and the SAP AI Core integration through which the database calls LLMs and tabular foundation models such as SAP-RPT-1. The abstract names the engine, the memory role and the AI Core link and does not say how the memory is written or read. DA263 on Wednesday 28 October is a two-hour hands-on on the same engine with a different cast. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Markus Fath and Shraddha Shetty, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
AI-enhanced analytics with SAP Business AI PlatformAI-enhanced analytics with SAP Business AI PlatformSAP Business Data Cloud data products joined to an ontology, a semantic layer the abstract says is supported by the Model Context Protocol, and read from Joule Work (SAP Joule) and SAP Analytics Cloud: that is the architecture SAP's abstract states for its AI-enabled analytics. The abstract names the parts and not how the semantic layer is modelled or what an analytics developer builds against. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Hacen Benkhedah, Joaquin Recio Huertas, Matilda Hyka and Oliver Huth, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Build your first agent with Joule Studio in a pro-code wayBuild your first agent with Joule Studio in a pro-code wayThe command line interface of Joule Studio, which the atlas holds as @sap/joule-work-dev-cli-early-adopters, carries an agent from a structured intent through generated product requirements documentation and wired APIs to a deployment on Joule Studio's SAP-managed runtime, in one guided flow. SAP's abstract names the stages of that pipeline and promises working code at the end; what the generated requirements and APIs look like is not described. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Charan Ravikumar, Evgenii Skrebtcov, Maria Kondratyeva and Simon Endres, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Connecting AI agents to the ABAP RESTful application programming modelConnecting AI agents to the ABAP RESTful application programming modelJoule Studio, classic edition connects Joule Agents to applications built with the ABAP RESTful application programming model through actions and skills, calling the OData services those applications expose their business objects through: the tools an agent may call, which is the agent tooling concern seen from the ABAP side. The abstract promises alternative integration patterns and does not name them. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Leon Karlau, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Content-based Agents with SAP Joule Studio Agent BuilderContent-based Agents with SAP Joule Studio Agent BuilderJoule Studio, classic edition, the capability in SAP Build the page calls Joule Studio, is where an organisation creates and manages its own Joule skills and Joule agents; its Agent Builder is for a custom agent that handles a multi-step task by combining instructions, model-backed planning and reasoning, and a configured set of tools, Joule skills, document resources, MCP servers, or other agents run as subagents. The page states an agent executes inside the calling user's own security context through SAP Cloud Identity Services, and can be tried against a test conversation before deployment. That is the tool-and-turn-taking ground agent tooling covers, here built through Joule Studio rather than in application code.
Custom Joule SkillsCustom Joule SkillsA custom Joule skill is a workflow written to extend what Joule does out of the box for one specific business need, built and deployed through Joule Studio in SAP Build; the page states this is the supported way to extend Joule's built-in capabilities. Through Joule Studio a skill reaches SAP and external APIs via the destinations already configured in the BTP subaccount and Build environment, with the workflow itself versioned, monitored and deployable from the same tool.
Deploy, review, break, fix: Govern cloud transports with agility and AIDeploy, review, break, fix: Govern cloud transports with agility and AIFive BTP services in one delivery chain, as the abstract lays it out: a transport is triggered in SAP Content Agent Service, tested in SAP Cloud Transport Management, its failure is raised by SAP Alert Notification service for SAP BTP and remediated by a SAP Joule agent with SAP Automation Pilot, and SAP Cloud Logging keeps the history for root-cause analysis. The chain from alert to remediation is the operations automation concern; what the Joule agent decides on its own is not in the abstract. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Biser Simeonov, Daniel Funkert, Sven Rullmann and Thorsten Sandfuchs, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Discover fast-track implementation of SAP Cloud ERP with AIDiscover fast-track implementation of SAP Cloud ERP with AISAP's implementation practice for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and the AI-driven tooling SAP says is changing stages of a project, with faster and more predictable deployments, less manual effort and lower risk as the stated outcomes. The abstract names the product, an external here, and no tool; the edge is to SAP Joule because SAP's AI tooling for implementation in the sibling sessions TM109, TM263 and TM265 is Joule for Consultants, and whether this session shows it is not stated. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Anurag Barua and Khaled MUSILHY, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Discover how SAP Joule for Consultants transforms cloud implementationsDiscover how SAP Joule for Consultants transforms cloud implementationsA customer's use of SAP Joule for Consultants in a cloud transformation: grounding project data, running fit-to-standard workshops faster and keeping teams aligned, followed by the technical architecture behind those capabilities and an early road map preview on feasibility for developers and enterprise architects. The edge is to SAP Joule, of which Joule for Consultants is the offering for consultants and has no entry of its own here; the abstract leaves the customer as a placeholder and the architecture to the session. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Philipp Kandziora and Yi Hsuan Lin, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
From intent to extension: Joule and the future of solution extensibilityFrom intent to extension: Joule and the future of solution extensibilityHow Joule turns natural-language intent into extensions across SAP Autonomous Suite: intent-based agent extensions, enriching the agents SAP delivers, packaging options for partners and what SAP calls a harmonised extensibility experience. The edges are to SAP Joule, which does the translating, and to Extensibility, the concern; the abstract names the directions and no feature that ships today. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Amitha Kamath, Oren Shatil and Richard Kuba, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Get to know our AI-enhanced mobile apps across the Autonomous EnterpriseGet to know our AI-enhanced mobile apps across the Autonomous EnterpriseA demo of the Joule Work mobile app, part of SAP Joule, and selected SAP mobile apps, showing the mobile AI features meant for using SAP Autonomous Suite on the go, followed by the mobile AI patterns and how to build your own Mobile apps with SAP Business AI Platform. The abstract names the apps and the patterns and states no feature or tool, so what building your own involves is not said. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Sandeep Tetali and Thilo Berndt, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Inside Joule Studio runtime: Agent deployment and integrationsInside Joule Studio runtime: Agent deployment and integrationsJoule Studio runtime from the inside: the tools and services SAP manages to deploy, integrate, run, extend and operate agents at scale, and the integrations through the agent gateway and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition. The edge is to SAP Joule, whose agents the runtime runs; the atlas reaches that runtime through @sap/joule-work-dev-cli-early-adopters, which deploys a solution to it, and the abstract names neither the CLI nor a service by name. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Andre Lamego and Jens Huesken, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Joule and related AI offerings from SAP: One platform, many systemsJoule and related AI offerings from SAP: One platform, many systemsSAP Joule run across dozens of SAP systems: the SAP for Me portal, orchestration across systems, configuration and credential management, monitoring and tenant isolation are the topics SAP's abstract lists. It stays on the operating side and says nothing about building on Joule. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin; also JW301V, virtual), presented by Lukas Lochner, Marvin Klaus and Mathias Rup, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Joule and SAP Knowledge Graph: Context-aware AI across SAP solutionsJoule and SAP Knowledge Graph: Context-aware AI across SAP solutionsThe catalogue carries RA107's abstract under this title, and what it describes is SAP AI Core as the management and orchestration layer of an AI architecture: extending Joule Agents in SAP Joule, the model library in Joule Studio for contextual reasoning, connecting data products from SAP Business Data Cloud, and embedding AI in SAP S/4HANA. The SAP Knowledge Graph the title names does not appear in that text, so the edges rest on the abstract as published, and whether the session follows the title or the abstract is not known until it is recorded. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin; also RA110V, virtual), presented by Jan Portisch and Pavithra G K, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Joule without walls: From personal skills to enterprise interoperabilityJoule without walls: From personal skills to enterprise interoperabilitySAP Joule connects outward over two protocols, A2A and MCP, which SAP's abstract names as the foundation of its open ecosystem, with Joule Assistants as composable agents and extensibility built in. The session draws the line between a personal extension of Joule and one that needs enterprise governance; the abstract does not say where that line falls. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Mathis Boerner and Thomas Mueller, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
SAP’s compositional design system: Craft enterprise UIs with AI on the flySAP’s compositional design system: Craft enterprise UIs with AI on the flySAP's compositional design system is the engine behind the generated interface in Joule Work, the front of SAP Joule: SAP's abstract says AI assembles the UI at runtime from primitives and composites under a body of design knowledge, inside a brand-safe design system, and that the session covers the architecture that keeps the result consistent. A third shape of Generative UI beside the two the capability describes, since here the model composes the interface at runtime. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Philip Miseldine and Sophia Levens, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
The road map for SAP Joule for Consultants—your go-to SAP consulting toolThe road map for SAP Joule for Consultants—your go-to SAP consulting toolSAP's road map for SAP Joule for Consultants, which the abstract describes as becoming the tool for SAP software projects: landscape awareness and secure system connectivity, so that Joule understands an organisation's SAP environments and gives project teams more contextual guidance. The atlas holds no entry for Joule for Consultants, so the piece enters on SAP Joule, the product it is an edition of; the abstract states outcomes and no feature or date. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Natalie Han and Sachin Kaura, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
What’s next for agentic analytics and planning in SAP Business Data CloudWhat’s next for agentic analytics and planning in SAP Business Data CloudWhat is next for agentic analytics and planning in SAP Business Data Cloud: SAP Joule's agents automating insight delivery, analysis, narrative generation and modelling tasks. A road map session; the abstract names the four kinds of task and no agent or date. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin; also DA806V, virtual), presented by Kristian Ruemmelin, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
What’s next for the core platform capabilities of SAP Business AI PlatformWhat’s next for the core platform capabilities of SAP Business AI PlatformA preview of the operations layer beneath SAP Business AI Platform: selected road map highlights across Joule Studio runtime, Cloud Identity Services and SAP Cloud Logging, on how enterprise AI is governed and run. The edges are to the two named services and to SAP Joule, whose agents the Joule Studio runtime runs; the abstract names the three areas and no highlight. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin; also XP825V, virtual), presented by Andre Lamego and Jens Huesken, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Zero token architecture for Joule AgentsZero token architecture for Joule AgentsA pattern for SAP Joule's agents in which an agent maps the solution path once, solves the problem, generates reusable code or configuration and validates it, and later requests reuse that output, so discovery is done by the model and execution is repeatable. The abstract states the pattern as an idea and names no Joule component and no case it was tried on. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by EDGAR ADRIAN MARTINEZ ARCE, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Document extractionSAP only
Behind the Autonomous Enterprise: SAP Knowledge Graph and SAP Domain ModelsBehind the Autonomous Enterprise: SAP Knowledge Graph and SAP Domain ModelsThe strategy behind SAP Business AI's intelligence layer: SAP Knowledge Graph for enterprise context, SAP Domain Models for SAP-specific expertise and tabular AI for predictions, unified on SAP AI Core with SAP Document AI. Knowledge Graph and Domain Models are not atlas entries, so the edges rest on the two products the abstract names as the infrastructure and on Predictive models for the tabular AI; nothing is stated about what any of them does in the layer. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin; also ST103V, virtual), presented by Jan Portisch and Richard Grandpierre, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
How SAP Document AI brings agentic intelligence to business documentsHow SAP Document AI brings agentic intelligence to business documentsSAP Document AI as SAP's abstract now describes it: composable, agent-ready skills for schemaless extraction, classification and summarisation of business documents, so Joule Agents can read and act on unstructured content, plus new document foundation models and agentic validation in its workflow engine. That widens document extraction past the fixed-schema fields the atlas entry records; the abstract names the features and not their release state. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Dheeraj Diwan, Soeren Leibach and Tomasz Janasz, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Generative UIUnmapped
SAP’s compositional design system: Craft enterprise UIs with AI on the flySAP’s compositional design system: Craft enterprise UIs with AI on the flySAP's compositional design system is the engine behind the generated interface in Joule Work, the front of SAP Joule: SAP's abstract says AI assembles the UI at runtime from primitives and composites under a body of design knowledge, inside a brand-safe design system, and that the session covers the architecture that keeps the result consistent. A third shape of Generative UI beside the two the capability describes, since here the model composes the interface at runtime. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Philip Miseldine and Sophia Levens, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
LLM integrationSAP only
A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 1/3A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 1/3The concepts before the code: what the GPT model and its API actually offer, and what the finished chat application looks like — personalities included. Written in the weeks when the ground was moving under it, and the post carries its own change log to prove it: GPT-3.5 added on 1 March, GPT-4 on 15 March, and an admission that a series planned as two posts became three.published 2023-02-22
A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 1/3
cap-ui5-gpt-chat: no published releases, repository quiet for 41 months. Affects Runnable code.
A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 2/3A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 2/3The backend: CAP with TypeScript, the entities holding chats and personalities, and the service that talks to the API. This is where the streamed completion and the repositories behind the handler come from, which is the part of the sample still worth lifting even though the model access has since been superseded by AI Core.published 2023-02-24
A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 2/3
cap-ui5-gpt-chat: no published releases, repository quiet for 41 months. Affects Runnable code.
A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 3/3A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 3/3The SAPUI5 frontend of the sample, and mostly an argument for writing UI5 in TypeScript: ES imports in place of sap.ui.define, a class with real private members in place of the underscore convention, and the service types generated from the CDS model copied into the UI package, so one IChats interface types the OData object the controller reads. The second half is structure — a formatter class and a singleton LayoutManager called from the XML view through core:require, a confirmation helper taking a callback, a dialog class resolving a promise, a generic createEntity<T> on a service class — all of it to keep every controller under 100 lines. What it says about arranging a UI5 app holds whatever model sits behind the chat; the tooling around it is of its date, and the post calls UI5's TypeScript support experimental.published 2023-02-27
A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 3/3
cds2types. Affects Runnable code.
Agentic memory: Knowledge graph engine and recall in SAP HANA CloudAgentic memory: Knowledge graph engine and recall in SAP HANA CloudThe knowledge graph engine in SAP HANA Cloud as an agent's memory: what the engine, the graph side of graph, spatial and document data, does in an agentic workflow, how an agent keeps what it learns there, the state agent tooling holds between turns, and the SAP AI Core integration through which the database calls LLMs and tabular foundation models such as SAP-RPT-1. The abstract names the engine, the memory role and the AI Core link and does not say how the memory is written or read. DA263 on Wednesday 28 October is a two-hour hands-on on the same engine with a different cast. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Markus Fath and Shraddha Shetty, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
AI-enabled administration: Automating log analysis with generative AI hubAI-enabled administration: Automating log analysis with generative AI hubA log analysis tool for incident work, built in SAP Business Application Studio with the generative AI hub feature, which SAP AI Core ships as its LLM integration by its own documentation: it automates root-cause analysis over system errors and masks sensitive data. SAP's abstract states the tool's jobs and not how the hub is called, what the masking covers or which model answers. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), with no speaker listed in the catalogue at the time of writing, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Automate your Job Postings Using Generative AI (ChatGPT) & SAP Build Process Automation AppsAutomate your Job Postings Using Generative AI (ChatGPT) & SAP Build Process Automation AppsA process that drafts its own text: ChatGPT writing job postings, SAP Build Process Automation carrying them through approval, and CAP in between. Presented as a generic pattern the author expects to be adapted rather than copied.shivamshukla12, published 2023-08-10
Behind the Autonomous Enterprise: SAP Knowledge Graph and SAP Domain ModelsBehind the Autonomous Enterprise: SAP Knowledge Graph and SAP Domain ModelsThe strategy behind SAP Business AI's intelligence layer: SAP Knowledge Graph for enterprise context, SAP Domain Models for SAP-specific expertise and tabular AI for predictions, unified on SAP AI Core with SAP Document AI. Knowledge Graph and Domain Models are not atlas entries, so the edges rest on the two products the abstract names as the infrastructure and on Predictive models for the tabular AI; nothing is stated about what any of them does in the layer. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin; also ST103V, virtual), presented by Jan Portisch and Richard Grandpierre, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Build AI agents and applications natively on SAP HANA CloudBuild AI agents and applications natively on SAP HANA CloudSAP HANA Cloud as the base for agentic applications on SAP Business AI Platform: the session goes through CAP, the SAP HANA Cloud vector engine and SAP AI Core, with architecture patterns and lessons learned from building AI-supported applications. SAP's abstract names the three parts of that stack and the vector engine as the database's feature in it, and describes none of the patterns. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin; also DA113V, virtual), presented by Christoph Morgen and Shraddha Shetty, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Build business differentiation with SAP AI CoreBuild business differentiation with SAP AI CoreSAP AI Core as the orchestration layer for enterprise AI, worked through with SAP's engineers: extend Joule Agents with models from its library, ground them in SAP Business Data Cloud products, embed them in SAP S/4HANA flows, then govern, scale and monitor them from prototype to production. The abstract says what the layer does for an agent and not which services carry each step. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by David Knaack, Franziska Dobrigkeit, Hadi Hares and Jonas Israel, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Content FilteringContent FilteringContent filtering screens a large language model's input and output for low-quality, irrelevant or unsafe content: the four categories it names being hateful, violent, sexual and vulgar content, checking a request once on the way in and once on the way back. The page states smaller models can do this filtering efficiently, reading perplexity scores to flag anomalies, with the aim that SAP AI Core produces content meeting a stated safety standard, which is the ground content filtering covers on the BTP door.
Creating a meal generator application with SAP Build, Cloud Application Programming and openAICreating a meal generator application with SAP Build, Cloud Application Programming and openAIIngredients in, meal suggestions out, assembled from BTP services plus OpenAI and Google APIs. A small application built for the pleasure of it, and useful here as the plainest example of CAP holding the middle of a generative flow.former_member793421, published 2023-07-17
Data MaskingData MaskingData masking replaces identifiable or confidential text in a prompt with placeholders such as <Person_0> or <Organization_1> before it reaches a large language model, using pattern matching and machine learning to find what to replace. The page states SAP AI Core supports it as a feature and sets out five steps for applying it, defining the masking scope, choosing a technique, preserving the prompt's intent, checking compliance and risk, then testing and monitoring the result. That is the shape data masking takes on the BTP door.
Document GroundingDocument GroundingDocument Grounding is a managed retrieval-augmented-generation service under the Generative AI Hub on BTP, which SAP's page on SAP AI Core places inside that service: it ingests documents from Amazon S3, SharePoint, SAP Document Management Service, SAP Work Zone or an SFTP server, and handles chunking, embedding and retrieval itself, refreshing content automatically when a source document changes. The page states this managed path is recommended for most enterprise scenarios because it covers the whole lifecycle end to end, and offers a separate Document Grounding Vector API for data that is already chunked and embedded, for cases that need finer control over chunking and metadata.
Empowering Your Data Analytics with GPT-3 and SAP CAP IntegrationEmpowering Your Data Analytics with GPT-3 and SAP CAP IntegrationFree text in, SQL out, answer back in a sentence — the model writes the query, CAP runs it, and the model turns the rows into prose. Written in the GPT-3 window, so the model access has dated, but the three-step shape has not, and it is a different bet from retrieval: nothing is embedded, the schema is the context.Former Member, published 2023-03-10
Enriching AI models with SAP AI Core in SAP Business Data CloudEnriching AI models with SAP AI Core in SAP Business Data CloudThe integration between SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP AI Core, through which data products with their semantics feed AI models for benchmarking, custom AI development and agentic analytics and applications. The abstract names the two products and the three uses and states nothing about how the data reaches AI Core or what the integration consists of. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by San Tran and Sandy Tran, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Joule and SAP Knowledge Graph: Context-aware AI across SAP solutionsJoule and SAP Knowledge Graph: Context-aware AI across SAP solutionsThe catalogue carries RA107's abstract under this title, and what it describes is SAP AI Core as the management and orchestration layer of an AI architecture: extending Joule Agents in SAP Joule, the model library in Joule Studio for contextual reasoning, connecting data products from SAP Business Data Cloud, and embedding AI in SAP S/4HANA. The SAP Knowledge Graph the title names does not appear in that text, so the edges rest on the abstract as published, and whether the session follows the title or the abstract is not known until it is recorded. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin; also RA110V, virtual), presented by Jan Portisch and Pavithra G K, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Prompt TemplatingPrompt TemplatingPrompt templating replaces a static prompt with a structured, reusable template whose placeholders are filled in at runtime, which the page says helps LLM responses stay consistent and lets the same instructions be adapted across tasks. On SAP AI Core this is implemented through the Prompt Registry, and the page states that storing prompts as plain strings in code is possible but not recommended. That is prompt management as a stored and managed object rather than a string embedded in the caller.
SAP AI Core deep dive: Models, agents, and business context at scaleSAP AI Core deep dive: Models, agents, and business context at scaleSAP AI Core read as the management and orchestration layer of an AI architecture, beyond the model runtime: SAP's abstract lists extending Joule Agents, the model library in Joule Studio for contextual reasoning, connecting data products from SAP Business Data Cloud, and embedding AI in SAP S/4HANA. It names the connections and not the APIs behind them. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin; also RA107V, virtual), presented by Franziska Dobrigkeit and Hadi Hares, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Ship your own sandboxed AI operations agent to Kyma in two hoursShip your own sandboxed AI operations agent to Kyma in two hoursAn operations agent built and then broken on purpose: the abstract has participants deploy a reasoning agent to SAP BTP, Kyma runtime, connect it to SAP AI Core, give it observability over the runtime and cause a failure for it to diagnose, the operations automation concern with an agent doing the diagnosis. Patterns for cost control and monitoring are promised at the end; the agent framework and how the sandbox is drawn are not named. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin, two hours), presented by Christian Lechner, Piotr Tesny, Thorsten Sandfuchs and Vipin VijayKumar, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Stop guessing, start counting: How generative AI fixed an inventory messStop guessing, start counting: How generative AI fixed an inventory messAn inventory-counting application a business built on SAP Business AI Platform with SAP HANA Cloud and generative AI, to replace recount lists kept by gut feel across SAP ERP Central Component, SAP S/4HANA and Microsoft Excel; the talk promises the app, its architecture and what went wrong. The generative AI part is LLM integration from application code; the abstract names HANA Cloud and generative AI as the two building blocks and says nothing about how either is used. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Ranjeet Kumar, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
RAG on CDSUnmapped
Document GroundingDocument GroundingDocument Grounding is a managed retrieval-augmented-generation service under the Generative AI Hub on BTP, which SAP's page on SAP AI Core places inside that service: it ingests documents from Amazon S3, SharePoint, SAP Document Management Service, SAP Work Zone or an SFTP server, and handles chunking, embedding and retrieval itself, refreshing content automatically when a source document changes. The page states this managed path is recommended for most enterprise scenarios because it covers the whole lifecycle end to end, and offers a separate Document Grounding Vector API for data that is already chunked and embedded, for cases that need finer control over chunking and metadata.
Tool governanceUnmapped
Agentic Engineering for SAP BTP ExtensionsAgentic Engineering for SAP BTP ExtensionsAn agent harness coordinates code generation across isolated Git worktrees, using a skills registry, SAP CAP MCP Server, Fiori MCP Server and UI5 Web Components MCP Server for development context. The diagram shows LiteLLM as a model proxy in front of SAP AI Core, while automated checks and review gate the generated changes. The worked scenario is CAP-based extensions on BTP, with specifications written before generation and reusable skills governed across teams.
Third-Party MCP Server Access to SAP Solutions on BTPThird-Party MCP Server Access to SAP Solutions on BTPDescribes external MCP servers and custom servers on BTP, assigning their operators responsibility for authentication, scoped identity, API limits, logging and lifecycle. The permitted use remains conditional on the SAP API Policy, while SAP Integration Suite and Joule Studio are described as SAP-provided paths. Hosting a server on BTP does not automatically supply its governance controls.Dhawal Joshi, Harut Ter-Minasyan, Mirko Günther
AuthenticationSAP only
Evolving the identity lifecycle for an AI-first futureEvolving the identity lifecycle for an AI-first futureCloud Identity Services as the foundation for authentication, identity lifecycle management and access across SAP landscapes, and the agent identity concepts and SAP-managed identity and access management scenarios SAP says reduce operational effort. The edges are to the service and to the two concerns the abstract names it for, Authentication and Identity provisioning; the abstract names the agent identity concepts and does not say what they are. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Sonia Petrescu and Swetta Singh, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
How SAP secures enterprise AI agents with identity propagationHow SAP secures enterprise AI agents with identity propagationCloud Identity Services as the identity layer for AI agents as well as people: the abstract states that both are managed in one directory, that user context is propagated by token exchange, and that authorisation is enforced at every hop, so no agent holds back-end credentials. Agents from Microsoft, Google and partners take the same flow through the agent gateway. Token exchange across a hop is the authentication side and the per-hop check the authorisation side; what the agent gateway is, and whether it is a product, the abstract does not say. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Gunnar Kosche and Sebastian Ries, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Identity lifecycle and governance with SAP services and Microsoft EntraIdentity lifecycle and governance with SAP services and Microsoft EntraCloud Identity Services beside SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance and Microsoft Entra for one user lifecycle across SAP and third-party applications: the abstract states that SAP business roles can be included in Entra access packages, so that provisioning and governance run from Entra in a hybrid environment, which is the identity provisioning concern. Which SAP systems' roles, and over which protocol, is not stated. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Martin Raepple of Microsoft, Plamen Pavlov, Regine Schimmer and Swetta Singh, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Road map: SAP Business AI Platform security and SAP Cloud Identity ServicesRoad map: SAP Business AI Platform security and SAP Cloud Identity ServicesThe road map for SAP Business AI Platform's security and compliance services, Cloud Identity Services and SAP Key Management Service among them, and the upcoming changes SAP files under security, governance and compliance. The edge is to Cloud Identity Services, the one named service with an entry here; SAP Key Management Service has none, and the abstract names no item of the road map. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Michael Friedrich and Sascha Vierlinger, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
SAP Build Process Automation – Use Principal Propagation in Actions sample: CAP Node.js ServiceSAP Build Process Automation – Use Principal Propagation in Actions sample: CAP Node.js ServiceThe follow-up that carries the identity through. It takes the CAP service from the Actions tutorial and puts the calling user's identity behind it — an XSUAA instance, a trust configuration, an OAuthSAMLBearerAssertion destination, and the service changed to use that instance — so a step runs on behalf of a person rather than as the process.TJe, published 2023-06-22
SAP Build Process Automation – Use Principal Propagation in Actions sample: CAP Node.js Service
Workflow integration has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @cap-js/n8n 0.0.1, 2026-08-27. Affects A recipe.
SAP CAP JWT Token Flow in codeSAP CAP JWT Token Flow in codeOne question, answered precisely: at what point does the JWT exist and how does it end up on req.headers.authorization in a CAP handler. XSUAA issues it and the approuter carries it, and the post follows it through both.sandeepmalhotra, published 2023-04-03
SAP CAP JWT Token Flow in code
Authentication changed in CAP Java 3.0.1, 2024-07-26. Affects Runnable code.
Third-Party MCP Server Access to SAP Solutions on BTPThird-Party MCP Server Access to SAP Solutions on BTPDescribes external MCP servers and custom servers on BTP, assigning their operators responsibility for authentication, scoped identity, API limits, logging and lifecycle. The permitted use remains conditional on the SAP API Policy, while SAP Integration Suite and Joule Studio are described as SAP-provided paths. Hosting a server on BTP does not automatically supply its governance controls.Dhawal Joshi, Harut Ter-Minasyan, Mirko Günther
What’s next for the core platform capabilities of SAP Business AI PlatformWhat’s next for the core platform capabilities of SAP Business AI PlatformA preview of the operations layer beneath SAP Business AI Platform: selected road map highlights across Joule Studio runtime, Cloud Identity Services and SAP Cloud Logging, on how enterprise AI is governed and run. The edges are to the two named services and to SAP Joule, whose agents the Joule Studio runtime runs; the abstract names the three areas and no highlight. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin; also XP825V, virtual), presented by Andre Lamego and Jens Huesken, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
XSUAA Based Authentication - Using Managed ApprouterXSUAA Based Authentication - Using Managed ApprouterOne half of a pair published the same day, both starting from capire's list of authentication kinds and then going end to end on XSUAA. This is the managed approuter route, where the platform runs the router and the application supplies configuration rather than a module.rahul_rajagopal, published 2023-09-25
XSUAA Based Authentication - Using Managed Approuter
Authorization has changed twice since this was published, most recently in CAP Java 3.7.1, 2025-01-30. Affects A recipe.
AuthorizationSAP only
How SAP secures enterprise AI agents with identity propagationHow SAP secures enterprise AI agents with identity propagationCloud Identity Services as the identity layer for AI agents as well as people: the abstract states that both are managed in one directory, that user context is propagated by token exchange, and that authorisation is enforced at every hop, so no agent holds back-end credentials. Agents from Microsoft, Google and partners take the same flow through the agent gateway. Token exchange across a hop is the authentication side and the per-hop check the authorisation side; what the agent gateway is, and whether it is a product, the abstract does not say. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Gunnar Kosche and Sebastian Ries, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
XSUAA Based Authentication - Using Managed ApprouterXSUAA Based Authentication - Using Managed ApprouterOne half of a pair published the same day, both starting from capire's list of authentication kinds and then going end to end on XSUAA. This is the managed approuter route, where the platform runs the router and the application supplies configuration rather than a module.rahul_rajagopal, published 2023-09-25
XSUAA Based Authentication - Using Managed Approuter
Authorization has changed twice since this was published, most recently in CAP Java 3.7.1, 2025-01-30. Affects A recipe.
Input validationSAP only
#CAP-TechBytes Input Validation#CAP-TechBytes Input ValidationThe annotations one at a time — @mandatory, @assert.unique, @assert.range including the enum form, @assert.format — each with what it produces. Ends on error handling, which is the part that decides whether any of it is usable from a UI.Thajunniza, published 2023-07-07
Learn how to define constraints declaratively in your CDS modelLearn how to define constraints declaratively in your CDS modelConstraints expressed in the model rather than checked in a handler — the distinction the atlas draws between input validation the framework enforces and validation somebody writes.SAP
Rate limitingUnmapped
Modern integration at TÜV Rheinland: APIs, events and cloud transformationModern integration at TÜV Rheinland: APIs, events and cloud transformationTÜV Rheinland's migration from SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite with API-led connectivity and event-driven architecture, told through business cases. The abstract names what was used: the SAP Integration Suite, Event Mesh capability, API Management, generative AI for faster development and SAP Cloud ALM for monitoring. It states nothing about how any of them was used, so the edges rest on the names and on the Platform migration the story starts from. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Road map for SAP Integration Suite: What ships next across all capabilitiesRoad map for SAP Integration Suite: What ships next across all capabilitiesSAP's road map for SAP Integration Suite across its capability areas: API Management, event-driven integration, business process and trading partner integration, and hybrid runtimes for SAP and third-party systems. The abstract promises recent deliveries and the planned innovations that make the platform agent-ready within SAP Business AI Platform; it names the areas and no shipping item, so the edges rest on the product and the one area it names by a product name. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin; also IN804V, virtual), written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
ConfigurationSAP only
Tips for running CAP nodejs in SAP BTPTips for running CAP nodejs in SAP BTPDeliberately not a summary of capire: the author says up front that nothing here repeats the documented best practices, and the subject is configuration for running cloud-natively rather than correctly. Examples target Cloud Foundry, with the claim that they hold for Kyma too.published 2023-06-21
Tips for running CAP nodejs in SAP BTP
Deployment changed in @sap/cds-dk 8.9.0, 2025-03-31. Affects Runnable code.
DeploymentCommunity only
#BTP #SAPCAP: Quirky Nuggets (N03-N04)#BTP #SAPCAP: Quirky Nuggets (N03-N04)Two unrelated findings in one post, which is the format of the series: the OData operators tried against a CAP service — with a schema of deliberately awkward types to try them on — and undeploying database artifacts, which is the half people hit in anger. Numbered N03 and N04 of a run that continues either side.Ajit_K_Panda, published 2023-06-05
#BTP #SAPCAP: Quirky Nuggets (N03-N04)
Deployment changed in @sap/cds-dk 8.9.0, 2025-03-31. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
A modern workflow for SAP Cloud Integration with CAP and Azure DevOpsA modern workflow for SAP Cloud Integration with CAP and Azure DevOpsCAP used to build tooling rather than an application: the development workflow for Cloud Integration is limited to what the Integration Suite offers, so the author puts a CAP service and Azure DevOps around it. An unusual use of the framework, and the reason to read it.marcel_schork62, published 2023-06-27
Deploy a Full-Stack CAP Application in SAP BTPDeploy a Full-Stack CAP Application in SAP BTPFive tutorials taking the Developer's Guide application from running locally to running on BTP — preparation, the deployment itself, role assignment, and integration with Build Work Zone. Published twice, once for Cloud Foundry and once for Kyma, with the same shape and different descriptors; indexed once, because the second is the first with the runtime swapped.SAP
Multitenant SaaS applications on SAP BTP using CAP? SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime!Multitenant SaaS applications on SAP BTP using CAP? SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime!The Kyma counterpart to the Cloud Foundry Tried-and-True series — the same SaaS application, the same requirements, a Kubernetes runtime underneath. The two code lines were later merged, which the Reloaded post announces.martinfrick, published 2023-04-05
Surviving and Thriving with the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model: Deployment to SAP BTP, Kyma runtimeSurviving and Thriving with the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model: Deployment to SAP BTP, Kyma runtimeAn episode of the author's #CAPTricks series, and it reads like one — long, opinionated, and organised around the things that actually go wrong on the way to a deployed CAP application rather than around the documented happy path.maxstreifeneder, published 2023-03-07
Surviving and Thriving with the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model: Deployment to SAP BTP, Kyma runtime
Deployment changed in @sap/cds-dk 8.9.0, 2025-03-31. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Tips for running CAP nodejs in SAP BTPTips for running CAP nodejs in SAP BTPDeliberately not a summary of capire: the author says up front that nothing here repeats the documented best practices, and the subject is configuration for running cloud-natively rather than correctly. Examples target Cloud Foundry, with the claim that they hold for Kyma too.published 2023-06-21
Tips for running CAP nodejs in SAP BTP
Deployment changed in @sap/cds-dk 8.9.0, 2025-03-31. Affects Runnable code.
MultitenancySAP only
Multitenant SaaS applications on SAP BTP using CAP - The Reloaded Version!Multitenant SaaS applications on SAP BTP using CAP - The Reloaded Version!An announcement rather than a tutorial, and it is the one that changes how the rest of the series should be read: the Cloud Foundry and Kyma code lines and their documentation were merged into a single sample, so the runtime becomes a choice inside one repository instead of a fork in the reading path.martinfrick, published 2023-08-09
Multitenant SaaS applications on SAP BTP using CAP? SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime!Multitenant SaaS applications on SAP BTP using CAP? SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime!The Kyma counterpart to the Cloud Foundry Tried-and-True series — the same SaaS application, the same requirements, a Kubernetes runtime underneath. The two code lines were later merged, which the Reloaded post announces.martinfrick, published 2023-04-05
SaaS Self-Onboarding and One-Domain Concept in SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime using CAPSaaS Self-Onboarding and One-Domain Concept in SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime using CAPTwo requirements that only appear once a SaaS application has customers: subscribing a tenant end-to-end without the provider doing it by hand, and serving every tenant from one domain instead of one host per subscriber. Kyma runtime, and the post is a summary pointing at an Expert Feature tutorial in the sample repository — it says so itself, offering a one-minute read as the entry point.martinfrick, published 2023-06-01
SaaS Self-Onboarding and One-Domain Concept in SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime using CAP
Multitenancy changed in @sap/cds 7.0.0, 2023-06-22. Affects Runnable code.
Platform migrationSAP only
Modern integration at TÜV Rheinland: APIs, events and cloud transformationModern integration at TÜV Rheinland: APIs, events and cloud transformationTÜV Rheinland's migration from SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite with API-led connectivity and event-driven architecture, told through business cases. The abstract names what was used: the SAP Integration Suite, Event Mesh capability, API Management, generative AI for faster development and SAP Cloud ALM for monitoring. It states nothing about how any of them was used, so the edges rest on the names and on the Platform migration the story starts from. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Modernize your database landscape with SAP HANA CloudModernize your database landscape with SAP HANA CloudWhy to move a database estate to SAP HANA Cloud, and the migration tools and services for doing so, which is the platform migration concern. SAP's abstract is one sentence and names none of the tools. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Niklas Siemer and Roman Belosludtsev, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
CI/CD pipelinesSAP only
Get Started with an SAP Cloud Application Programming Model Project in SAP Continuous Integration and DeliveryGet Started with an SAP Cloud Application Programming Model Project in SAP Continuous Integration and DeliveryWiring a CAP project into SAP's hosted CI/CD service, which is the pipeline you get without assembling one.SAP
DebuggingSAP and community
Get an introduction to the cds REPLGet an introduction to the cds REPLcds repl as a way to ask the running model questions directly, which is the fastest route from a suspicion about a query to knowing.SAP
Editor supportSAP and community
Extending SAP Autonomous SuiteExtending SAP Autonomous SuiteExtensibility across SAP Autonomous Suite: AI-enabled development in SAP Build solutions, the ABAP Cloud model among them, as the way extensions are designed, generated and deployed, and a direction for making extensions ready for agentic AI. The abstract names the suite, SAP Build and the ABAP Cloud model and no single feature, so the edges are to Extensibility, the concern, and to SAP Build Code, the SAP Build solution held here in which Joule generates and deploys development; which other SAP Build solutions the session shows is not stated. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Alexander Rother and Khaled MUSILHY, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Making CAP Application Development Easier and Faster with the Help of Storyboard in SAP Business Application StudioMaking CAP Application Development Easier and Faster with the Help of Storyboard in SAP Business Application StudioThe Storyboard from the other side — someone who came across it while learning the high-productivity tools, rather than someone who shipped it. It follows the whole arc a CAP project takes through the tool: entities, relationships, services, sample data, a UI, roles, and external resources, each as a thing the diagram can add rather than a file you open.Aryan_Raj_Sinha, published 2023-09-20
Local developmentSAP only
CAP Typescript + Fiori Typescript + live reload Initial app setupCAP Typescript + Fiori Typescript + live reload Initial app setupA full-stack TypeScript starting point recorded as it was arrived at — the terminal commands and the configuration files, in order, for the CAP side, the conversion to TypeScript, and then the Fiori side. The author is explicit that it takes a while to go through, which is the honest framing for a setup that has this many steps.Christophe_SW, published 2023-06-18
CAP Typescript + Fiori Typescript + live reload Initial app setup
TypeScript patterns changed in @cap-js/cds-typer 0.5.0, 2023-07-25. Affects Runnable code.
cds-launchpad-plugin supercharged & ready for the future - CAP Plugin, UI5 Tooling support & Async Launchpadcds-launchpad-plugin supercharged & ready for the future - CAP Plugin, UI5 Tooling support & Async LaunchpadThe maintainer on a set of changes rather than on the plugin's original purpose, which is indexing every SAPUI5 project in a workspace into one sandbox launchpad so all of them can be tested together. What moved: it became a CAP plugin, gained UI5 Tooling support, and moved to the async launchpad — each framed as keeping pace with where SAPUI5 itself is going rather than as a feature.published 2023-12-11
Create a Simple CAP Application and Explore the DefaultsCreate a Simple CAP Application and Explore the DefaultsThe shortest way in: a project from the wizard, then a look at what CAP assumed on your behalf. The defaults are the subject rather than the application — which is the right first lesson in a framework whose whole argument is convention over configuration.SAP
Get an introduction to the cds REPLGet an introduction to the cds REPLcds repl as a way to ask the running model questions directly, which is the fastest route from a suspicion about a query to knowing.SAP
SAP Tech Bytes: Using the SAP Approuter at dev time - a full-stack journey with UI5 and CAPSAP Tech Bytes: Using the SAP Approuter at dev time - a full-stack journey with UI5 and CAPGetting UI5 Tooling and the CAP server onto one port under one command, using cds-plugin-ui5 — which the post presents as the thing that removes the proxy and destination configuration a full-stack dev setup otherwise needs. Part one of a journey that goes on to put the approuter in front at development time.published 2023-10-13
SAP Tech Bytes: Using the SAP Approuter at dev time - a full-stack journey with UI5 and CAP
cds-plugin-ui5 has been through 11 major lines since this was published, most recently 0.15 (2025-11), 0.16 (2025-12), 0.17 (2026-03). Affects Runnable code.
Set up a self-contained development environment for CAP Node.jsSet up a self-contained development environment for CAP Node.jsA CAP development environment that carries its own dependencies, so the machine it runs on stops being part of the setup.SAP
Plugin authoringSAP only
AI needs a foundation: A map of the plug-in ecosystem for CAPAI needs a foundation: A map of the plug-in ecosystem for CAPA map of the plug-ins for CAP (@sap/cds), official, community and independent, drawn across regions such as integration, performance and tooling, so that a team can see what exists to reuse and what it would have to build: the question plugin authoring answers from the other side. SAP's abstract places CAP at the centre of its AI strategy, with model context protocol support, and the map is offered as the foundation under that. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Community Theater, Berlin), presented by Mike Zaschka, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Reusable components for CAP with cds-pluginReusable components for CAP with cds-pluginThe post that taught the mechanism, and it teaches it by picking a requirement small enough to be absurd: every string a service returns should end in a random emoji. Working through that on the bookshop example leaves nothing to argue about except the plumbing, which is the point — what a cds-plugin is, where it hooks in, and why packaging it beats copying it into the next project. Vinícius Barrionuevo credits this post as the thing that gave him the idea for sap-cap-sdm-plugin, and it is hard to read the plugin ecosystem in this graph without it.published 2023-04-30
TestingSAP and community
Create Automated System Tests for SAP Cloud Application Programming Model ProjectsCreate Automated System Tests for SAP Cloud Application Programming Model ProjectsEnd-to-end tests driving the UI with wdi5, run in the pipeline — the layer above cds.test, which stops at the service boundary.SAP
TypeScript patternsDoes not apply
CAP Typescript + Fiori Typescript + live reload Initial app setupCAP Typescript + Fiori Typescript + live reload Initial app setupA full-stack TypeScript starting point recorded as it was arrived at — the terminal commands and the configuration files, in order, for the CAP side, the conversion to TypeScript, and then the Fiori side. The author is explicit that it takes a while to go through, which is the honest framing for a setup that has this many steps.Christophe_SW, published 2023-06-18
CAP Typescript + Fiori Typescript + live reload Initial app setup
TypeScript patterns changed in @cap-js/cds-typer 0.5.0, 2023-07-25. Affects Runnable code.
CDS-TS-Dispatcher: Simplifying SAP CAP TypeScript DevelopmentCDS-TS-Dispatcher: Simplifying SAP CAP TypeScript DevelopmentThe first of a pair introducing the author's own libraries, and it states what it is reacting to: CAP derives OData services from a CDS model, but the communication between business logic, service and persistence layers is left to you, and the earlier attempt at the service-layer half, cds-routing-handler, appeared unmaintained against newer CAP. The dispatcher is the answer offered for that layer.published 2023-11-13
CDS-TS-Dispatcher: Simplifying SAP CAP TypeScript Development
@dxfrontier/cds-ts-dispatcher has been through 6 major lines since this was published, most recently 4 (2025-01), 5 (2025-07), 6 (2026-07). Affects Runnable code.
CDS-TS-Repository: Simplify SAP CAP Entity persistance with BaseRepositoryCDS-TS-Repository: Simplify SAP CAP Entity persistance with BaseRepositoryThe persistence half of the same pair, three days later: a BaseRepository putting entity access behind a typed repository rather than CQN written inline in a handler. Shares its opening argument with the dispatcher post — the layer between business logic and persistence is the part CAP leaves open — and the two are designed to be used together.published 2023-11-16
CDS-TS-Repository: Simplify SAP CAP Entity persistance with BaseRepository
@dxfrontier/cds-ts-repository has been through 9 major lines since this was published, most recently 5 (2024-12), 6 (2025-07), 7 (2026-07). Affects Runnable code.
TypingSAP only
TypeScript Sheriff: How can I use TypeScript in the SAP ecosystem? (Part 2 of 3)TypeScript Sheriff: How can I use TypeScript in the SAP ecosystem? (Part 2 of 3)The middle part of three, and the one about SAP: where TypeScript is supported across a side-by-side extension on BTP, as of July 2023. It says the SAP Cloud SDK already generates OData clients as .ts files and UI5 ships types for its controls and modules, the ground of TypeScript support in UI5, while CAP offers standard types and the new @cap-js/cds-typer generates types for a service, which is typing, with the caveat that running cds-ts commands could overwrite what cds-typer generated.MikeDoyle, published 2023-07-05