Producing a web interface is UI written in ABAPUI written in ABAPProducing a web user interface from ABAP code, with the application’s backend language also defining what the user sees and how it behaves.Community only; operating an existing screen programmatically is GUI automationDriving the SAP GUIOperating the SAP GUI programmatically to perform tasks or test interactions through the actual screen. Agent access to your code works with development objects instead of the user interface.Community only.
DomainAll ecosystems
Developer Experience
The work of building: the editor and the local server, generators and tests, linting and debugging, and how code is reviewed and versioned before it ships.
Capabilities
Compare the concerns mapped here and open an ecosystem for its assessment. Artifact counts show providers; content counts show items linked directly to the capability.
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CapabilityEcosystems
Architecture diagrams
Drawing the architecture and components of a solution so another person can understand their responsibilities and connections.
Browsing table data
Looking at what a system holds while developing or supporting it: the rows behind a key, the reference data a field points at, the tables that carry data for one object.
Build and dev-server tooling
Serving an app locally and building it for deployment — proxying a backend, transpiling, bundling, and shaping the result for whatever will host it.
Calling a service by hand
Sending a request to an OData service or a push channel on a system and reading what comes back, while building it or chasing an error, before any client exists.
CI/CD pipelines
A pipeline that builds, tests and delivers an application each time its source repository changes, with a build log that shows which step failed.
Code formatting
Making source match one layout — indentation, keyword case, the shape of a statement block — by rewriting it rather than by reporting on it.
Code metrics
Measuring source code: its size, the complexity of its conditions, the coupling between classes and the cohesion inside one, and showing where those numbers concentrate across a package.
Code review
Reading a change before it moves on: which files or objects a change contains, what changed in each since an earlier version, and what a reviewer decided about each part.
Debugging
Seeing what running code did between an input arriving and a result coming out: which code ran, what the values were at each point, and why a value ended up as it did.
Dependency injection
Wiring an object's collaborators from outside it, so a class can be swapped for another implementation without editing the code that uses it.
Driving the SAP GUI
Operating the SAP GUI programmatically to perform tasks or test interactions through the actual screen.
Editor support
Working in source code with the editor helping rather than treating it as text — completion, go-to-definition, inline errors, refactoring and preview.
Finding a transaction code
Getting from a task to the code that starts it, and keeping the codes you use within reach.
Generators
Getting from nothing to a project that runs, and from a project that runs to one that has the piece you just decided you need.
IDE provisioning
Getting the IDE onto a developer's machine with the required plugins already in it, at a version the team can name.
Linting
Catching in the editor what would otherwise be caught at deploy time, or not at all — problems in source code and models and in the project's configuration, found by rules rather than by review.
Local development
Running the whole stack on a laptop against real bindings — the service, the UI and the routing in front of it — without deploying to see a change.
Low-code apps
Building an application by arranging UI components, logic flows and formulas in a visual editor instead of writing its code, backend included.
Model visualisation
Turning a data or code model into a readable picture of its entities, classes, fields and relationships, so a reader can understand the shape of a domain without opening every source file.
Plugin authoring
Writing a package that extends a framework or runtime rather than an application that uses it — a reusable extension loaded by its host, and the question you arrive at once solving a problem twice makes you want to solve it once for everyone.
Searching code in a system
Finding where a string, pattern or name occurs across source code and development objects held in a system.
Seed data
Getting realistic data into a service so it can be developed and demonstrated — initial data, per-tenant content, and believable volumes for testing.
Source control
Keeping source code and development objects in version control, comparing their revisions, and moving them between development environments.
Static analysis
Catching problems in code before it runs: naming, obsolete statements, security findings, and compatibility with a target environment.
Testing
Proving the service still does what it did — against the model and the handlers, without a deployed system and without a database somebody has to keep clean.
TypeScript patterns
How an application is arranged once it is written in TypeScript — where handlers live, what registers them, and how business logic is kept apart from persistence.
TypeScript support
Writing apps and libraries in TypeScript — the type definitions, the module syntax the loader expects, and the build step that gets from one to the other.
Typing
Making the model visible to the compiler — generated types for entities and events so a rename breaks the build rather than production.
UI5 testing
Proving a UI still works — unit tests over controllers and formatters, integration tests that drive real controls, and end-to-end runs against a served app.
Unit testing
Testing application logic without a running business process — and the test doubles that make dependencies on the database and on framework services tractable.
Each ecosystem hexagon shows its own coverage assessment. Coverage is never combined across ecosystems.
Artifacts
Providers, examples and other artifacts mapped to this domain, from SAP and the community. Each artifact appears once.
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ArtifactSignals
@abap2ui5/linter@abap2ui5/linterA command line that checks an abap2UI5 app class together with the UI5 view its builder chain produces, with no SAP system and no UI5 project.community org, abap
Event roundtrips and visual fidelity stay with a live run: the documentation leaves those to the project's MCP server and to [abap2UI5 for VS Code](artifact:abap2ui5-vscode-extension). A class that builds view parts in helper methods without the handle idiom cannot be statically reconstructed, and the render gate is then skipped with a notice while the property gate runs on what was reconstructed. A screenshot is not a preview of the app: nothing round-trips, no event reaches ABAP, and a table filled by a SELECT photographs empty unless a mock JSON file sits beside the source.
@abap2ui5/mcp-server@abap2ui5/mcp-serverAn MCP server that puts the abap2UI5 development loop on the machine an agent runs on: check the view the ABAP builds, photograph it, deploy the class into a sandbox, boot the app headless and read the errors.community org, abap
Every gate here runs off-system, so what the class does on a real system and what the view does on the oldest UI5 release it has to serve are what the `pitfalls` catalogues carry and no local run can see. It runs abap2UI5 app classes, so ABAP that is not one has nothing here to deploy into. In system mode the sandbox tools are not offered, and an `app_act` event runs on the system as the configured user.
@abapify/acds@abapify/acdsA parser for ABAP CDS DDL source — tokenizer, parser and a typed AST covering tables, structures, simple types, service definitions and metadata extensions.independent, abap
@abaplint/transpiler@abaplint/transpilerTranspiles ABAP 7.02 syntax to ES6 JavaScript, so ABAP code and its unit tests run on Node.js in CI without an ABAP system, with optional SQLite, PostgreSQL, Snowflake or SAP HANA drivers.community org, abap
@animb1996/cds-data-drift@animb1996/cds-data-driftCompares the CSV files under a CAP project's db/data with the rows in the database bound as its db service, and reports where the two have diverged without writing to either.independent, cap
@arc-mcp/adt-ls@arc-mcp/adt-lsA TypeScript SDK over adt-ls, the headless language server SAP ships inside ABAP Development Tools for VS Code, so a program drives it without the discovery, JVM and handshake work.independent, abap
What adt-ls cannot do headless the maintainer puts out of scope, so a consumer that needs an ADT call the language server does not expose is back to speaking ADT itself. The README states the current runtime compatibility as verified on macOS arm64, against adt-ls 1.1.2 as the minimum and `1.1.2.202608131517` as the version tested. An Eclipse installation does not supply that runtime: SAP versions the two separately, so the VS Code extension has to be installed even where nobody opens VS Code.
@cap-handler/generator@cap-handler/generatorInteractive generator for CAP event handlers: reads the model through the reflection API, asks which service, target and phase, then writes the handler file and wires the import and registration into the service implementation.independent, cap
@cap-js-community/common@cap-js-community/commonSix independent features for CAP services in one package: replication cache, migration check, rate limiting, a Redis client broker, a local HTML5 repository and a CDM builder.community org, cap
It is a bundle, not a plugin with one job. Depending on it for one feature brings the rest.
@cap-js/cds-test@cap-js/cds-testTest support for CAP Node.js, installed as a dev dependency: it starts the project's server for the test, hands the test an HTTP client bound to it, and carries the assertions.sap official, cap
@cap-js/console@cap-js/consoleConnects a running CAP application to the CAP console.sap official, cap
@cap-js/data-inspector@cap-js/data-inspectorInspects database entities and their contents at the CAP service level.sap official, cap
@cap-utils/barrier@cap-utils/barrierA placeholder published under a CAP annotations name that ships no annotations: one exported barrier() that throws "not yet implemented", no .cds file and no repository.independent, cap
The manifest calls it a dummy library exposing custom CDS annotations, but the published contents are a one-line README, a single exported barrier() whose body is throw Error("not yet implemented"), and no .cds file at all — there is nothing to import and nothing to annotate with. No repository, one release, May 2025.
@capire/data-viewer@capire/data-viewerA CAP plugin that adds a generic data browser to an application, written to show how a plugin is built rather than to be depended on, and used in the bookstore sample.sap official, cap
Its own readme carries a caution: this is a sample, not intended for production use. It exists to demonstrate the plugin mechanism, and the bookstore sample is where it is used.
@cbs-consulting/cds-eslint@cbs-consulting/cds-eslintAn ESLint plugin for CDS files carrying one consultancy's own rules, published so that the consultancy's projects lint their CDS models the same way.independent, cap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
@cbs-consulting/tools@cbs-consulting/toolsShared ESLint configuration for SAPUI5 and CAP projects, the config rather than the rules, so a team adopts a house style by adding one dependency.independent, cap
@concircle/i18n-ai-translator@concircle/i18n-ai-translatorA CLI that translates a UI5 app's i18n.properties with OpenAI and writes the language files back, masking placeholders, applying a glossary and caching what has been translated.independent, ui5
@dxfrontier/cds-ts-dispatcher@dxfrontier/cds-ts-dispatcherDecorator-driven handler registration for CAP in TypeScript, where handlers are declared on a class rather than wired up one by one in an init function.independent, cap
@dxfrontier/cds-ts-repository@dxfrontier/cds-ts-repositoryA typed BaseRepository over CAP entities, so persistence is called through a class with methods rather than through CQN written inline in each handler.independent, cap
@khalidmh/capx@khalidmh/capxAn opinionated installer for CAP Node.js projects — asks a short set of questions, runs cds init, adds the chosen facets, then writes the configuration and starter files that make those choices work together.independent, cap
@neoimpulse/cap-js-bootstrap@neoimpulse/cap-js-bootstrapA command-line tool that starts a local CAP environment with several services and an AppRouter together from one command, documented in German and requiring Node 22 or newer.independent, cap
@openui5/sap.ui.core@openui5/sap.ui.coreThe OpenUI5 core: the module loader, the MVC runtime, data binding, routing, theming and the test stack, which is everything a UI5 app does before a single community package is added.sap official, ui5
@sang2x/captools@sang2x/captoolsA CLI of eight CAP development commands aimed at Cloud Foundry workflows, shipped without a repository or README, whose binding step writes resolved VCAP_SERVICES into default-env.json.independent, cap
There is no repository and no README: what the eight commands do is only readable from the compiled dist that ships in the package. Three of them — npmrc, install, project — are written for "SimpleMDG" projects rather than for CAP generally, so the reusable part is bind-local, run-local and debug. Seven releases up to July 2026. Its binding step writes the resolved VCAP_SERVICES into default-env.json in the project, where [@sap/cds-dk](artifact:sap-cds-dk) keeps only the place the credentials can be fetched from, so a project using it needs that file kept out of version control.
@sap-ux/cap-config-writer@sap-ux/cap-config-writerSAP's writer module for changing a CAP project's configuration from code, so a tool can add a UI5 app to a project that already exists, returning a mem-fs editor whose commit writes the changes.sap official, cap
There is nothing to run: it is published for a generator or a script to call, not for a developer to invoke in a project, and it declares Node.js 22 or later.
@sap-ux/create@sap-ux/createSAP Fiori tools as a command: npx @sap-ux/create changes the features of a Fiori project that already exists, through its add, generate, convert, remove, update and change subcommands.sap official, ui5
@sap-ux/eslint-plugin-fiori-tools@sap-ux/eslint-plugin-fiori-toolsESLint rules from the Fiori tools team, aimed at the parts of a project their generators produce.sap official, cap
@sap-ux/fe-fpm-writer@sap-ux/fe-fpm-writerA library that writes flexible programming model elements, such as a custom page wired into the app's routing, into a Fiori elements application for OData v4 from Node code.sap official, ui5
@sap-ux/fe-mockserver-plugin-cds@sap-ux/fe-mockserver-plugin-cdsLets the Fiori Elements mock server take a CDS file as its metadata source, so a UI is developed against the real model before a service exists.sap official, cap
@sap-ux/fiori-generator-shared@sap-ux/fiori-generator-sharedThe shared functions and types the Fiori generators are built from; a dependency of theirs rather than a generator itself.sap official, cap
@sap-ux/i18n@sap-ux/i18nA library that reads and writes the i18n bundles of a UI5 or CAP project from Node code, the i18n.properties file of a UI5 app and the i18n folder of a CAP project alike.sap official, ui5
@sap-ux/odata-service-writer@sap-ux/odata-service-writerA library that adds an OData service to a UI5 project that already exists, writing the file updates from a config object naming the service url, its OData version and a destination.sap official, ui5
@sap-ux/ui5-application-writer@sap-ux/ui5-application-writerA library that writes the base structure of a UI5 project from Node code, out of an app id, title and description, returning a mem-fs editor so a generator needs no template engine of its own.sap official, ui5
@sap/ams-dev@sap/ams-devCompiles the DCL authorization policies of SAP's Authorization Management Service to DCN, so an AMS-secured application runs and is tested on a laptop.sap official, cap
Its own account of itself is local running and tests: the DCN it writes serves as input for running an application using AMS on the DCL bundle locally. It carries the SAP Developer License Agreement rather than an open-source licence, and the repository named in its package metadata is an internal SAP host, so the npm page is the only thing to read.
@sap/cds@sap/cdsThe CAP Node.js runtime, which compiles the CDS model, serves the services declared in it, answers generic requests before any handler runs, and loads every cds-plugin.sap official, cap
@sap/cds-common-content@sap/cds-common-contentISO-standard content for CAP's common definitions — countries, languages, currencies and timezones — so a project does not seed those tables itself.sap official, cap
@sap/cds-compiler@sap/cds-compilerCompiles CDS models to CSN, EDMX and database schemas.sap official, cap
@sap/cds-dk@sap/cds-dkThe command line client and development toolkit for CAP projects, with the commands cds build, cds deploy, cds watch and cds add among them.sap official, cap
@sap/cds-lsp@sap/cds-lspLanguage server for CDS — the engine behind completion, navigation and inline errors in every supported editor.sap official, cap
@sap/eslint-plugin-cds@sap/eslint-plugin-cdsSAP's ESLint plugin for CDS, carrying the model and environment rules capire calls best practice and universal for every CAP project.sap official, cap
@sap/generator-cap-project@sap/generator-cap-projectThe CAP project generator behind SAP Business Application Studio's wizard; its readme says it is meant to be used only there.sap official, cap
@sap/generator-cds@sap/generator-cdsA CDS project generator, deprecated by its own readme in favour of installing @sap/cds-dk globally.sap official, cap
@sap/ux-cds-odata-language-server-extension@sap/ux-cds-odata-language-server-extensionAdds the OData annotation features to @sap/vscode-cds, the CDS plug-in for Visual Studio Code: completion, micro-snippets, diagnostics, vocabulary documentation, Go to Definition and an i18n check inside a .cds file.sap official, cap
@sap/vscode-cds@sap/vscode-cdsSAP CDS language support for Visual Studio Code and Business Application Studio, published as an npm library.sap official, cap
@saptools/bruno@saptools/brunoA command line that runs Bruno collections against XSUAA-protected apps on Cloud Foundry, fetching the app's token and writing it into the selected environment file before each run.independent, btp
@saptools/cf-debugger@saptools/cf-debuggerOpens a verified Node.js inspector tunnel over cf ssh to an app on SAP BTP Cloud Foundry from one command, with its own local port for each concurrent session.independent, btp
@saptools/cf-explorer@saptools/cf-explorerSearches the files of an app deployed to SAP BTP Cloud Foundry over cf ssh, finding the app root, grepping the deployed code and turning matches into file and line candidates.independent, btp
@saptools/cf-function-trace@saptools/cf-function-traceRecords how one JavaScript function's state changes, step by step, in a Node.js process running locally or on SAP BTP Cloud Foundry, and stores the run as a redacted timeline that can be queried later.independent, btp
@saptools/cf-hana@saptools/cf-hanaA command line and TypeScript API that runs SQL against the SAP HANA Cloud database bound to a Cloud Foundry app, addressed by a region/org/space/app selector.independent, btp
@saptools/cf-inspector@saptools/cf-inspectorSets breakpoints, captures variable snapshots and evaluates expressions on a remote Node.js process over the Chrome DevTools Protocol from the shell, with no IDE attached.independent, btp
@saptools/cf-live-trace@saptools/cf-live-traceInjects a bounded HTTP trace hook into a running Node.js app on SAP BTP Cloud Foundry and streams each request and response to the terminal as JSON.independent, btp
@saptools/cf-request-runner@saptools/cf-request-runnerDiscovers every API endpoint of a CAP service already deployed to Cloud Foundry by walking its service documents, $metadata and endpoints catalog — falling back to container SSH to parse .cds files.independent, cap
@saptools/cf-sync@saptools/cf-syncA command line and Node.js API that logs into Cloud Foundry once, walks every region, org, space and app the user can reach, and caches that topology as JSON for the other @saptools packages to read.independent, btp
@saptools/hana-lens@saptools/hana-lensCompiles every CAP package in a workspace into one minified CSN cache, so "where is this entity and what columns does it have" is a query rather than a monorepo load.independent, cap
@saptools/service-flow@saptools/service-flowTraces one CAP operation end to end across several repositories without running anything — handlers, helper packages, local database access, remote OData calls, external HTTP and async channels.independent, cap
@saptools/sqltools@saptools/sqltoolsA command line that turns the HANA service binding of a Cloud Foundry app into a connection for the SQLTools extension in VS Code, written to the workspace's .vscode/settings.json.independent, btp
@satiroglu/kaev@satiroglu/kaevA command line that runs rule-based checks over a SAPUI5 or OpenUI5 project, reporting each finding with a rule id, a category, a severity, a confidence and the file it sits in.independent, ui5
Not in a project whose dependencies must all carry an open-source licence: KAEV is proprietary software, its licence page states that downloading or viewing the npm package does not by itself grant permission to use, copy, modify, redistribute, sublicense, sell, host or create derivative works, and the LICENSE file shipped with the package carries the controlling terms. Not as the last word on whether a UI5 application is secure: its rule reference states that a heuristic finding is not proof of a vulnerability, and its documentation puts professional security review beside it rather than under it.
@ui5-community/jsx-runtime@ui5-community/jsx-runtimeA plugin-based JSX runtime for UI5: views are written as .tsx files with per-control typing, and the JSX compiles to plain new Control(settings) calls.community org, ui5
Lowercase HTML tags such as `<div>` typecheck but throw: the default renderer constructs UI5 controls, and the HTML-aware renderer plugin is described as planned. `withScope` restores the previous scope on a synchronous return only, so an `await` inside its callback leaks the scope on runtimes without `AsyncLocalStorage`. A view that has to stay adaptable through UI5 flexibility has no path here yet: the project's [Devtoberfest session](content:devtoberfest-2026-ui5-views-type-safe-tsx) states that flexibility support is not built in yet.
@ui5-community/jsx-runtime-helloworld@ui5-community/jsx-runtime-helloworldA scaffolded UI5 TypeScript app in the jsx-runtime repository that consumes the runtime the way a project outside the repository would, with two views converted from XML.community org, ui5
It shows the wiring and a converted view pair, not the runtime's API surface; the directives, the plugin SPI and the binding forms are demonstrated in [@ui5-community/jsx-runtime-showcase](artifact:ui5-community-jsx-runtime-showcase) instead.
@ui5-community/jsx-runtime-showcase@ui5-community/jsx-runtime-showcaseThe showcase app of @ui5-community/jsx-runtime: it runs the library end-to-end and doubles as its documentation on GitHub Pages.community org, ui5
Its views are not a template for application code: every showcase view overrides `getController()` to return itself so a sample stays readable in one file, and the gotchas page says not to ship that in production, where a view keeps a separate `*.controller.ts`. Routing from a sample, an `ODataModel` v2 or v4, `sap.ui.mdc.Table`, forms and custom control authoring in TSX are absent by decision and documented as deferred.
@ui5/cli@ui5/cliThe UI5 Tooling command line for project setup, the local dev server and the build, which defines a UI5 project's shape and its two extension points, custom middleware and custom tasks.sap official, ui5
@ui5/linter@ui5/linterSAP's static analysis tool for UI5 projects: it scans JavaScript, TypeScript, XML, JSON and other files for deprecated APIs, global variables and possible CSP violations, and fixes part of them with --fix.sap official, ui5
@ui5/logger@ui5/loggerUI5 CLI's internal logger, described by its own readme as internal — it appears here because other UI5 tooling depends on it.sap official, ui5
@ui5/mcp-server@ui5/mcp-serverSAP's MCP server for UI5 development: ten tools that scaffold an app or a card, read the project in front of the agent, and run the linter and the manifest validator against it.sap official, ui5
It reads a UI5 project and the framework's own documentation, not a running system or a backend: a question about the service behind the app is answered somewhere else. Node.js v20.17 or v22.9 and above.
@ui5/middleware-code-coverage@ui5/middleware-code-coverageUI5 CLI server middleware that instruments a project's JavaScript files with Istanbul as the dev server sends them, and generates the coverage report from the records the OpenUI5 QUnit tests send back.sap official, ui5
@ui5/sample-app@ui5/sample-appAn OpenUI5 sample app set up with the UI5 CLI: ESLint, UI5 linter and UI5 Test Runner checks, a standard and a self-contained build, and a UI5 workspace for developing against local UI5 libraries.sap official, ui5
@ui5/tooling-webc@ui5/tooling-webcDeprecated UI5 Tooling extensions that generate UI5 library wrapper projects for UI5 Web Components and serve them during development; the README points to ui5-tooling-modules instead.sap official, ui5
The declared repository is archived.
@ui5/webcomponents@ui5/webcomponentsSAP's UI elements as standard custom elements, ui5-button among them, implementing SAP Fiori design and usable from plain HTML, React, Angular or Vue.sap official, ui5
Not where the UI library itself is expected to bind data: the documentation leaves binding a component's content and events to the host framework. Not from a CDN script tag: the project publishes none, so it assumes a build step.
ABAP ArchitectABAP ArchitectAn Eclipse plug-in that generates ABAP type definitions and parsing code from a pasted JSON or XML sample and creates the matching DDIC objects in a connected system over ADT.independent, abap
On an [SAP BTP ABAP environment](artifact:btp-abap-environment) system only the generated code is left: DDIC creation is not supported on ABAP Cloud, because classic DDIC object creation over REST is not available there. Create DDIC is also disabled where ADT is not installed in the same Eclipse, and Insert into Editor then works with any editor implementing `ITextEditor` instead of the ABAP one.
ABAP Call HierarchyABAP Call HierarchyAn Eclipse plugin that shows which members a class method, function module or subroutine calls, read from its own ADT backend in the system and published on a beta update site only.independent, abap
ABAP Code SearchABAP Code SearchAn Eclipse plugin that searches ABAP sources from the Eclipse search dialog, either in the client over the ADT API or inside the system through its own backend.independent, abap
On a system below ABAP 7.51, or one without a connected HANA database, the client-based mode does not run, and the server-based mode is only available where the abap-code-search-tools backend is installed in the system.
ABAP Development Tools for EclipseABAP Development Tools for EclipseSAP's Eclipse plugins for ABAP: source, dictionary and CDS editors, Project Explorer, Outline and ABAP Unit, calling ADT resources on the connected system.sap official, abap
It is an Eclipse install. A development object that is not native-integrated in Eclipse opens in the SAP GUI that is installed locally with the client.
ABAP Development Tools for VS CodeABAP Development Tools for VS CodeSAP's ABAP tools in VS Code: editing, debugging, ABAP Unit, ATC and transports for classes, CDS and RAP objects, over RFC to an on-premise or Private Cloud system and HTTP to a cloud one, with Joule's ADT MCP server and code completion behind an AI-unit licence.sap official, abap
ABAP remote filesystemABAP remote filesystemA Visual Studio Code extension that opens an ABAP system over ADT as an editable filesystem and exposes system tools to GitHub Copilot and external MCP clients.independent, abap
ABAP Search and Analysis ToolsABAP Search and Analysis ToolsAn Eclipse plugin with an object search dialog over repository objects and a view that analyses CDS views top-down and answers where-used questions, fed by its own ADT backend in the system.independent, abap
On a system where the abap-search-tools backend is not installed: the plugin lists it as a precondition, and the beta update site expects that backend's dev branch in particular.
ABAP Select ConverterABAP Select ConverterConverts a classic Open SQL SELECT against dictionary tables to the equivalent statement against released Core Data Services entities and their fields.independent, abap
In beta by its own page's account, where conversion bugs may occur and not all functions and variants are supported yet. The shapes named as not yet supported are sub selects, FOR ALL ENTRIES, functions such as count and sum, and the IN operator with a value list, so a statement built on one of those is outside what the converter sets out to do.
ABAP Syntax HighlightingABAP Syntax HighlightingA VS Code extension that registers .abap files as the language abap and colours them with a TextMate grammar.independent, abap
Quiet No published releases; repository quiet for 27 months.
Functional boundary It binds to the .abap and .ABAP file extensions inside Visual Studio Code, so it does nothing for ABAP opened in another editor, or for source read from a system over ADT instead of from a file on disk.
ABAP TagsABAP TagsAn Eclipse plugin for putting arbitrary tags on repository objects, with a Tag Manager view, tagged object search and tag import and export, served by its own ADT backend in the system.independent, abap
ABAP_DATABASE_MANAGERABAP_DATABASE_MANAGERA report that runs custom SQL queries against the SAP database or an external connection, shows the results in an ALV grid, and inserts, updates and deletes data in the connected database.independent, abap
abap_db_preparatorabap_db_preparatorA wrapper over ABAP's OpenSQL replacement service that exports chosen rows into a stored bundle and, in a unit test's setup, replays it as fake table content in two method calls.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 28 months.
abap_debugger_object_graph_extensionabap_debugger_object_graph_extensionAn ABAP debugger extension that shows the object on the debugger's Objects tab as a Graphviz graph in a browser window, built on ABAP Graph and Graphviz-browser and tested on NetWeaver 7.5.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 97 months.
abap_trial_dockerabap_trial_dockerShell scripts that build a Docker image from the SAP NetWeaver ABAP Developer Edition 7.52 SP04 installation files and run it as an unprivileged container, setting the stable hostname the installer wants.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 83 months.
abap-adt-apiabap-adt-apiA JS/TS client for the ADT resources an ABAP system exposes, so a program outside the system can do against it what the maintainer calls a good share of what the Eclipse tools do.independent, abap
Not a tool a developer runs: it is a library to build one with, and it ships no editor, command line or interface of its own. Its sample connects with a plain HTTP URL, a user and a password, so a system that does not expose the adt ICF service that way is out of reach.
abap-adt-cliabap-adt-cliPulls an ABAP package to local files over the ADT REST API in parallel, and pushes edited objects back under a transport — bulk sync rather than one object at a time in SE80 or Eclipse.independent, abap
A Python 3.10+ CLI, installed with pipx rather than through any SAP-provided package manager. Its own README lists what it does not do yet: where-used, syntax check and unit test runs — for those it says to reach for [ADT/Eclipse](external:eclipse) or an MCP server. First release, v0.1.0, and no standalone LICENSE file in the repository — the MIT grant is in the README and in pyproject.toml's project metadata rather than its own file.
abap-call-hierarchyabap-call-hierarchyThe ADT backend needed by the separate ABAP Call Hierarchy Eclipse plugin, installed in the ABAP system with abapGit and still in beta, which its maintainer calls not feature complete.independent, abap
abap-code-search-toolsabap-code-search-toolsA backend that searches ABAP source objects for a string or regular expression entirely in ABAP, instead of through the ADT source search, used from an Eclipse plugin or the report ZADCOSET_SEARCH.independent, abap
abap-db-browserabap-db-browserAn SAP GUI program for browsing tables, views, CDS views, custom queries and joins, installed with abapGit together with two other repositories from the same maintainer and needing ABAP 7.50.independent, abap
A system below ABAP 7.50: some of the classes it uses are only available from 7.50, and the maintainer states that downward compatibility to 7.40 in a single branch is currently not possible without resorting to dynamic programming.
abap-docabap-docA Node.js command that reads an ABAP package and its sub-packages over ADT and writes one PDF documenting every object in it, with an LLM writing the prose.independent, abap
Not reachable since 2026-10-20.
abap-file-formatsabap-file-formatsSAP's specification for how ABAP objects serialise to files, which makes the on-disk form of an ABAP object a published contract rather than a tool's private choice.sap official, abap
abap-metricsabap-metricsAn ABAP program that calculates software-engineering metrics for a class or a whole package, from lines of code and statements to complexity, coupling between objects and lack of cohesion.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 43 months.
ABAP-Object-VisualizerABAP-Object-VisualizerA debugger script that writes an object hierarchy to the clipboard at a breakpoint as a Graphviz description, for pasting into a renderer such as webgraphviz.com.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 67 months.
abap-odata-testabap-odata-testAn ABAP client library for calling OData services and chaining assertions on the response, such as assert_http_200, for unit tests, ADT console runs and standalone programs; its examples show GET only.independent, abap
abap-platform-yyabap-platform-yyA demo library for the ABAP Environment that reads a variable's type and value at runtime as RTTI does, published to show what APACK, the ABAP package and dependency manager, can do.sap official, abap
abap-search-toolsabap-search-toolsThe ADT backend the separate ABAP Search and Analysis Tools Eclipse plugin needs, installed in the ABAP system.independent, abap
abap-senchaabap-senchaA BDD/TDD assertion library for ABAP Unit, styled after the JavaScript library Chai.js, that wraps cl_abap_unit_assert in chainable expect, should and assert styles.independent, abap
abap-skillsabap-skillsSeventeen agent skills for ABAP development in one repository: RAP, CDS view entities, ABAP SQL and AMDP, unit testing, authorisation, eventing, abapGit, ABAP Cloud and the clean core levels.independent, abap
abap-tags-backendabap-tags-backendThe ADT backend needed by the separate ABAP Tags Eclipse plugin, installed in the ABAP system with abapGit; an upgrade to v2.0.0 or later runs a migration program for its new database tables.independent, abap
abap-test-containerabap-test-containerA test data container for ABAP Cloud that loads unit test data in JSON, XML or raw formats from GitHub and maps it onto the target structure, filling the platform's missing native one.independent, abap
abap-transport-reviewabap-transport-reviewA release check inside the ABAP system that turns every transport task into a GitHub pull request and refuses to release the request until a colleague has approved it.independent, abap
Not below SAP_BASIS 7.40 SP08, and not on [SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition](external:sap-s4hana-cloud-public-edition) or [the SAP BTP ABAP environment](artifact:btp-abap-environment), where the classic transport check, the report and job calls and the cluster table `INDX` it rests on do not exist and the maintainer names gCTS as the answer instead. Only on a development system where every developer is trusted: each developer's GitHub token is kept in a cluster table encrypted with a key held in the same table, so anybody who can run ABAP on that system can read both, and the separation between author and reviewer holds only as far as that trust does. Not where the gate has to be unconditional — `#NOREVIEW` in a request's short text skips the check for that request, `ZTR_DISABLED` switches it off for a system, a check that cannot reach GitHub lets the release go on, and nothing checks who writes the marker.
abap-unit-runnerabap-unit-runnerAn application job that runs and schedules ABAP Unit tests in SAP's ABAP Environment through the SAP_COM_0735 API, where the on-premise test runner has no SAP GUI to run from.independent, abap
abap-utesthelpabap-utesthelpTwo helper classes for ABAP Unit tests: one verifies a domain constant class against its domain's fixed values, the other creates test doubles without naming the interface.independent, abap
abap2UI5 for VS Codeabap2UI5 for VS CodeA VS Code extension for abap2UI5 apps: F9 starts the app class in a preview beside the source, Ctrl+F3 activates the class and reloads it, and the abap2UI5 linter runs in the editor while you type.community org, abap
The embedded preview needs a system that accepts basic auth: the documentation states that pure SSO or SAML without a basic-auth fallback is not supported, and points at `external` mode, which opens the app in the normal browser with the existing SAP session. On the web only the language half runs; the preview with its proxy, traffic log and screenshot, Ctrl+F3 activation, the render gate, the workspace-wide check and the MCP servers are desktop-only. The agent app tools send nothing until `abap2ui5.agent.enableAppTools` is switched on in User settings, because an event they fire runs as the configured user and changes data on the system for real.
abap2UI5 headless frontendabap2UI5 headless frontendPlays the frontend's side of the abap2UI5 request/response contract in ABAP, so an app class is driven and asserted on from a plain ABAP Unit test.community org, abap
There is no control tree: visibility and enablement are not evaluated, and `set_value( )` is not checked against the bound paths. The frontend `CONFIG` (device, UI5 version, focus, scroll) is not sent at all, so an app that branches on device or theme sees initial values. It drives `z2ui5_cl_ui5_handler` and the draft service, which the README states are not part of abap2UI5's released API in `src/02`, so a core change there can require a change here.
abap2UI5 Layout Editorabap2UI5 Layout EditorA browser editor that lays out a UI5 view by drag and drop and writes it out as one abap2UI5 app class, pulled into the system with abapGit.community org, abap
The class has to be moved by hand: an abapGit pull of the exported ZIP, or a paste into ADT or SE24. The palette is held to the 121 controls of UI5 1.71, and a control inserted by its class name instead comes from whatever UI5 the canvas has loaded, with nothing checking it against 1.71 - *Checks* reports that. An app class that builds no view, or more than one, is refused.
abap2UI5 Playgroundabap2UI5 PlaygroundABAP in the editor on the left and the abap2UI5 app it builds on the right, both inside one browser tab: the framework is transpiled to JavaScript at build time and the class in the editor is compiled when Run is pressed.community org, abap
A `SELECT` from a business table has nothing to select from: the database in the page holds the framework's own tables, and nothing can reach outside the browser, so an app that reads a system's data cannot be tried here. Only the UI5 libraries built in are available and a control from anywhere else will not load; what the transpiler cannot compile is reported in the output panel rather than run. State lives in the tab — a reload, and a press of Run, starts over on a fresh database.
abapcdsgrammarabapcdsgrammarAn ANTLR4 grammar for ABAP CDS, with the lexer and parser generated from it, so CDS source can be read as a parse tree outside a system.independent, abap
Release and repository quiet for 36 months.
abapCovabapCovA report, ZABAPCOV, that uploads ABAP Unit test code coverage results to codecov.io, once the repository is installed through abapGit and codecov.io's certificates through STRUST.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 67 months.
abapFakerabapFakerGenerates fake data in ABAP, for bootstrapping a database, creating XML documents, stress-testing a persistence layer or anonymising data taken from a production service.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 53 months.
abapfs_extensionsabapfs_extensionsABAP imported with abapGit that sets the stateful session flag on systems older than 7.51, so an HTTP client of the ADT resources can update objects there.independent, abap
Quiet No published releases; repository quiet for 92 months.
Functional boundary A system that already handles the session has nothing to gain from it. The maintainer states that importing it there causes no issue and simply sets the flag twice.
AbapGeneratorAbapGeneratorAn ABAP transaction, ZABAP_GENERATOR, that generates a Model-View-Controller-style project by copying a template package's objects into a new one under the project's name.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 48 months.
abapGitabapGitA Git client written in ABAP that runs inside the system, so objects are cloned, pulled and pushed without leaving it; with no package manager in ABAP, a cloned repository is how code is distributed.community org, abap
abapgit-commitlintabapgit-commitlintA set of abapGit user exits that checks a commit message against the rules a repository defines and can block the push when it fails, with the rules validated by a separate linter service.independent, abap
Quiet No published releases; repository quiet for 35 months.
No license Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
abapGitServerabapGitServerA git server implemented in ABAP, so an SAP system can host repositories with branches and merge requests that an abapGit client pulls from and pushes to.independent, abap
abapgraphabapgraphAn ABAP library for creating Graphviz graphs, written to give the maintainer's own ABAP debugger object graph extension a more compact layout, with demo code as its documentation.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 72 months.
abaplintabaplintStatic analysis for ABAP that runs outside a system on serialised source in a repository, so ABAP checks run in a pull request and in CI before the code ever reaches a system.community org, abap
abaplint-Ext-for-abapGitabaplint-Ext-for-abapGitSurfaces abaplint results inside abapGit itself, at the point where a developer is already looking.independent, abap
abaplint-sci-clientabaplint-sci-clientThe ABAP-side client that hands objects to the abaplint Server, so the checks of abaplint surface inside SAP Code Inspector, ABAP Test Cockpit and abapGit.community org, abap
abapOpenChecksabapOpenChecksAn open-source rule pack for SAP Code Inspector and ABAP Test Cockpit, installed via abapGit and activated as a check variant.independent, abap
abapOpenReviewabapOpenReviewA code-review tool for SAP GUI that ties a checklist to a transport request: a transport whose diff contains code must be approved before it can be released.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 31 months.
abapPrettyabapPrettyA command-line ABAP pretty printer that formats every supported include under a base object on a server over ADT in one invocation, activates the result and can put it on a transport.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 45 months.
abapsmithabapsmithAn MCP server that lets an LLM develop in ABAP on a live system over ADT, with writes off by default and every mutation recorded in a local journal that can undo it.independent, abap
A system that reports itself productive, or whose role the probe cannot prove non-productive, is write-locked with no override, so changing code in production is not something this does. The permission ladder constrains the package, object name and transport request the server itself passes on a write, and is not a sandbox around ABAP it executes: `abap_run`, `abap_test` and the opt-in `core.eval` run under the connected technical user's SAP authorisations, which is where the boundary actually sits. Data preview, dump variable contents and driving a transaction by batch input stay off in every mode, `admin` included, until each is named explicitly.
abapthemesabapthemesThree colour themes for ABAP source in ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse, shipped as an Eclipse plugin and installed from the maintainer's own update site.independent, abap
abapTimeMachineabapTimeMachineShows a whole ABAP object (a class, a function group and the rest) as it stood at a past version, instead of ABAP's native include-by-include compare.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 38 months.
abapwuluabapwuluRebuilds the where-used index for the ABAP repository objects in one package, optionally with its subpackages, as the report ZSAPDEV_WULU_RUN or as an ADT console class, for sandbox systems.independent, abap
ACEACEA SAP GUI tool that parses ABAP source statically to show call flow, data dependencies, control structure and code metrics such as McCabe complexity, without running the code.independent, abap
adash-servicesadash-servicesThe backend service behind ADASH Cli, exposing ABAP Unit test runs and coverage as REST and OData services for CI/CD pipelines, with a report scheduled to run tests per package.independent, abap
Release and repository quiet for 37 months.
ADT resourcesADT resourcesThe HTTP endpoint an ABAP system exposes as the adt ICF service under /sap/bc/adt, so a client outside the system can reach development objects, delivered with the platform rather than installed.sap official, abap
A client that cannot reach the adt ICF service over HTTP has nothing to call.
adt-bundle-builderadt-bundle-builderA Windows build that downloads Eclipse, installs ABAP Development Tools and four more ADT plugins with the Eclipse p2 director, and zips the result as a portable IDE.independent, abap
alwinvandeput/zscv_search_cds_viewsalwinvandeput/zscv_search_cds_viewsAn in-system tool for searching CDS views, started from transaction ZCDS_VIEW_SEARCH and built on CDS views over how CDS views, DDIC views and database tables relate to one another.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 29 months.
app-templateapp-templateStarter repository for an abap2UI5 app: one ABAP class with a unit test, abaplint and the abap2UI5 linter run by CI on every push, and the files an agent reads first.community org, abap
approuterapprouterThe showcase for dev-approuter in ui5-ecosystem-showcase: an SAP Application Router in front of two of the repository's apps, started either through the dev-time wrapper or through plain @sap/approuter.community org, cap
ARC-DRAWARC-DRAWAn MCP server that draws BTP solution diagrams onto a live draw.io canvas, with 111 SAP BTP icons as native shapes and SAP's diagram guidelines handed to the client as drawing rules.independent, btp
Any run nobody is watching: the drawing tools work only while the draw.io canvas at `http://localhost:3000/` is open and connected, so there is no diagram to produce on a build agent or a server. Nothing checks the result either, because the maintainer keeps a diagram linter on the [roadmap](https://github.com/etosin/arc-draw#-roadmap) rather than in the release. The maintainer marks the status early at v0.x, installs it from source, and records testing with Claude Code alone.
arc1-abap-bridgearc1-abap-bridgeA VS Code extension between arc-1 and ABAP Development Tools for VS Code, so GitHub Copilot can open an ABAP object by name, diff the inactive version and ask the system whether an edit would be accepted.independent, abap
The diff holds only while the object is inactive, since after activation the previous version is gone and a watched journal directory is what the maintainer points to instead. It adds no write path of its own: the IDE writes through SAP's extension, and the README states arc-1 can stay on `SAP_ALLOW_WRITES=false`. DDIC metadata files are skipped, because SAP's own stub for them says they are not supported in ABAP development tools for VS Code.
assertassertA fluent assertion helper for ABAP Unit tests that wraps cl_abap_unit_assert in chained calls such as assert(x)->equals(y), also usable outside tests through ZCL_ASSERTABLE.independent, abap
ATC-Best-Practice-GuideATC-Best-Practice-GuideCompanion material to DSAG's German-language ATC best-practice guide: four custom ABAP Test Cockpit check classes for formatting, code rules, header comments and German and English texts, plus snippets.independent, abap
audit-summaryaudit-summaryA command line that summarises npm audit results by root dependency, with severity counts, current against latest versions and thresholds that exit with code 1.independent, general
It audits through npm: a project that resolves its dependencies with another package manager, or has no `package.json`, has nothing for it to run. What it reports is what `npm audit` knows, so a vulnerability outside the npm advisory data is not in its table.
AVEAVEA SAP GUI version explorer and code reviewer that diffs every object in a transport request and records an approval or decline per changed block, by someone other than its author.independent, abap
babel-preset-transform-ui5babel-preset-transform-ui5A Babel transformer that converts modern ECMAScript or TypeScript UI5 code (ES modules and classes) into the sap.ui.define and Control.extend syntax the UI5 loader expects.community org, ui5
BASEnvSyncBASEnvSyncAn extension for SAP Business Application Studio that zips a dev space's home-directory configuration files and loads them into another dev space.independent, btp
The exported file list is hard-coded, so a dev space whose setup lives in files the readme does not name is not carried across; the roadmap lists making the list flexible as open work. Nothing from the BAS profile is in the zip, so a developer who wants the colour scheme, the keymaps or the installed extensions uses the BAS profile export on its own.
BellaBellaAn Eclipse plugin that puts Claude into ABAP Development Tools: explain, generate, rework and implement from the editor's context menu, completion as ghost text, and a chat whose tools reach the system through the developer's existing ADT logon.independent, abap
BenjaminWeisheit/ABAP-2-CODE-CHARTABenjaminWeisheit/ABAP-2-CODE-CHARTAConverts ABAP code metrics into a JSON file for import into Code Charta, a separate visualisation tool that draws the picture; the conversion is the whole of what it does.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 63 months.
bothzoli/ABAP-IoC-Containerbothzoli/ABAP-IoC-ContainerAn inversion-of-control container for ABAP, with which collaborators are registered and resolved instead of each call site constructing what it needs; its maintainer calls it a naive implementation.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 62 months.
boy0korea/ZWD_CODE_SCANNERboy0korea/ZWD_CODE_SCANNERA code scanner for Web Dynpro ABAP, installed as the program ZWD_CODE_SCANNER with a transaction code of its own that starts it and shows the results in a list.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 28 months.
bryanmcain/zcode_scannerbryanmcain/zcode_scannerAn implicit enhancement to ECC's built-in code scanner, which covers only reports, function modules and classes, adding enhancement implementations, Web Dynpro components, BSP ABAP and form code.independent, abap
btp-solution-diagram-generatorbtp-solution-diagram-generatorA Claude plugin that writes BTP solution diagrams as .drawio files in the style of the SAP BTP Solution Diagram Guidelines.independent, btp
cacamber-BDD-for-ABAPcacamber-BDD-for-ABAPA BDD framework for ABAP that turns Gherkin-style Given/When/Then scenarios into ABAP Unit test steps, matching each step against a regular expression and calling the test class method it maps to.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 40 months.
cap-cds-typercap-cds-typerA CAP service in TypeScript whose handlers import Books and Order from #cds-models/CatalogService, the types @cap-js/cds-typer generates from the model.independent, cap
cap-github-actioncap-github-actionA CAP project whose MTA build and Cloud Foundry deploy run as two jobs of one GitHub Actions workflow, with the Cloud Foundry credentials read from repository secrets.independent, cap
cap-handler-frameworkcap-handler-frameworkConvention-based handler layer for CAP: methods named beforeCreate, onRead or afterUpdate are mapped automatically, with the draft lifecycle given its own explicit hooks rather than folded into the active-entity ones.independent, cap
cap-java-childcap-java-childThe consumer side of a promotion model for CAP Java: a parent pom pinned to a fixed version, Renovate opening the bump as a pull request, the application's own tests as the gate, and auto-merge only on green.independent, cap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
cap-java-parent-pom-samplecap-java-parent-pom-sampleA Maven parent pom published to GitHub Packages that pins cds-services-bom, the Spring Boot BOM and a shared CAP Java plugin, so a child application names the parent coordinate and no versions of its own.independent, cap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
cap-java-resiliencecap-java-resilienceA CAP Java service consuming a Business Partner API that a CAP Node.js project in the same repository mocks, with the SAP Cloud SDK caching and resilience it is named for recorded as planned.independent, cap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
cap-java-snippetscap-java-snippetsTen short CAP Java references, one per document: handler phases, CQN analysis, CQL, error handling, actions, authentication, logging, remote services, hybrid runs and the test layers.independent, cap
cap-js-mockdatacap-js-mockdataA cds add command that generates CSV seed files into db/data from @Mockdata annotations on your entities, filling each column with values from the Faker module the annotation names.independent, cap
Quiet Release and repository quiet for 27 months.
Functional boundary Not a test-data factory. It writes files at build time to seed a database, so it does not build fixtures inside a unit test. The declared peer range stops at cds 7 — nothing says it fails on 9, but nothing says it was tried either.
cap-mock-generatorcap-mock-generatorParses the .cds schema and fills db/data with relationally consistent CSV — through an LLM layer where one is configured, or a local engine where none is.independent, cap
cap-nodejs-dev-envcap-nodejs-dev-envA development container definition for CAP Node.js with @sap/cds-dk and the Cloud Foundry CLI, for use with VS Code's Dev Containers extension or GitHub Codespaces.sap official, cap
cap-toolkitcap-toolkitA utility bundle for CAP handlers, with a chainable HandlerBuilder, role checks, validation rules and query helpers, collecting boilerplate that otherwise repeats across projects into one dependency.independent, cap
It is a bundle rather than a plugin with one job, and a single release from March 2026 — depending on it for the query helpers brings the auth and validation layers too.
cap-typescriptcap-typescriptMinimal CAP project in TypeScript.independent, cap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
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.
cds-bookshopcds-bookshopThe CAP bookshop in ui5-ecosystem-showcase, set up to show UI5 development on a CAP server with cds-plugin-ui5.community org, cap
cds-cucumbercds-cucumberBehaviour-driven tests for CAP applications: Gherkin scenarios that drive a running service rather than assertions written against handlers.community org, cap
cds-eclipse-plugincds-eclipse-pluginEclipse plugin for the CDS language.independent, cap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
cds-hyper-app-servicecds-hyper-app-serviceA typed service implementation layer over CAP ApplicationService, for writing handlers as class members rather than registrations; last released July 2022, with no repository declared.independent, cap
Last released July 2022, and no repository is declared on the package.
cds-internal-toolcds-internal-toolReusable internals for people writing CAP extensions — annotation helpers, current cds runtime types, module resolution, reflection utilities and type assertions.independent, cap
Explicitly internal utilities, so the surface is not a stable public API and last moved in March 2024. The repository the package declares has been deleted — verified against the GitHub API, not just a failed fetch. The package is still on npm, so it installs; the source it was published from is no longer readable, which is a harder thing to discover than a stale version number.
cds-launchpad-plugincds-launchpad-pluginIndexes every SAPUI5 application in a workspace into one sandbox launchpad served by the CDS server, so all of them can be opened from a single page while developing.independent, cap
cds-plugin-handlerscds-plugin-handlersA CAP plugin that structures handlers as one file per entity, in a folder per service, instead of one service implementation that keeps growing.independent, cap
cds-plugin-typescriptcds-plugin-typescriptA CDS build task that compiles TypeScript sources during cds build, so the deployed artefact is JavaScript without a separate build step in the pipeline.independent, cap
cds-routing-handlerscds-routing-handlersDecorator-based routing of CAP service handlers in TypeScript, from before the core had an opinion — the framework the CDS-TS-Dispatcher post names as its unmaintained predecessor.independent, cap
Release and repository quiet for 46 months.
cds-textmate-grammarcds-textmate-grammarThe TextMate grammar for the CDS language, which highlights .cds files where the CDS language server does not run, most visibly in GitHub's own file viewer through Linguist.sap official, cap
Not an editor integration. If you want completion, navigation and diagnostics, that is the CDS language server, not this.
cds2typescds2typesA command-line tool that generates TypeScript interfaces from a CDS model, written before @cap-js/cds-typer existed.independent, cap
Clean-Core.ioClean-Core.ioA free hosted workspace that reads one piece of custom ABAP, redraws its business process as BPMN with a line anchor on every element, grades the SAP objects it uses Level A–D and ends in a keep, rebuild, move-to-standard or retire decision.independent, abap
Not reachable Not reachable since 2026-10-20.
Functional boundary The Level A–D grade merges SAP's two published files in the tool's own engine: it is an orientation rather than an ATC result and is left out of the signed audit pack, and the repository documents state by state where the grade is expected to differ from what the clean core ATC check reports. Nothing here runs ABAP Unit — on the RAP track that result is recorded from your own SAP system, and generated CAP tests run against mocks in an isolated runner rather than in a real SAP S/4HANA system. Tenants, organisation accounts, single sign-on, a self-hosted edition and write access through an API are deliberately not built, and one account has five analysis runs before a Gemini API key of its own is needed.
Cloud ALM Link for ADTCloud ALM Link for ADTAn Eclipse plugin that shows the transports and SAP Cloud ALM features behind an ABAP object, and turns Cloud ALM IDs in source comments into links.independent, abap
An Eclipse installation older than the 2026-03 release, or a Java below 21, cannot take it: both are listed prerequisites, and 2026-03 is named as the oldest release the current ADT installs on. The tenant, region, client ID and client secret are entered per installation in Eclipse preferences, so each developer configures the Cloud ALM connection in their own IDE.
Cloudification Repository ViewerCloudification Repository ViewerA browser form over the Cloudification Repository, the list SAP publishes of which standard objects are released for ABAP Cloud and what replaces the ones that are not.independent, abap
Not for an automated check: the answer arrives as a page in a browser, so a rule that has to run over a codebase, or an agent mid-task, needs the repository as data rather than as a form.
code pal for ABAPcode pal for ABAPATC and Code Inspector checks for the parts of Clean ABAP a static analyser can actually check, installed into a system with [abapGit](artifact:abapgit-abapgit) rather than delivered with it.sap official, abap
This is the legacy edition, for on-premise systems from SAP_BASIS 7.40. On ABAP Cloud, [the Cloud Edition](artifact:sap-code-pal-for-abap-cloud) is the one that runs.
code pal for ABAP — Cloud Editioncode pal for ABAP — Cloud EditionThe same Clean ABAP check set for ABAP Cloud, where the legacy edition cannot run.sap official, abap
com.sap.cds:cds-feature-consolecom.sap.cds:cds-feature-consoleA CAP Java plugin that connects a running application to CAP console, which consumes its remote monitoring data; CAP console itself is installed separately and still being developed.sap official, cap
com.sap.cds:cds-feature-dev-dashboardcom.sap.cds:cds-feature-dev-dashboardA browser dashboard for a running CAP Java service that shows and manages its messaging, resilience and multitenancy state while developing, open to users with the cds.Developer role.sap official, cap
com.sap.cds:cds-maven-plugincom.sap.cds:cds-maven-pluginThe Maven plugin that runs CDS build steps in a CAP Java project: compiling the model, generating typed Java accessor interfaces and adding facets to an existing project.sap official, cap
com.sap.cds:cds-services-archetypecom.sap.cds:cds-services-archetypeA Maven archetype that generates a new CAP Java project: a Spring Boot service with a starter CDS model, wired to the CDS Maven plugin for its build.sap official, cap
com.sap.cds:cds-services-bomcom.sap.cds:cds-services-bomThe Maven bill of materials for CAP Java, pinning every com.sap.cds module in a release, from the API and core runtime to the Spring Boot starters and the CQN engine, to the same version.sap official, cap
commoncommonA CAP plugin that extends @sap/cds/common with enhanced reuse data in .csv, published as a sample of how to write a CAP plugin rather than as something to run in production.sap official, cap
coreline/ZDDIC_FINDERcoreline/ZDDIC_FINDERA finder for ABAP Dictionary objects, searching domains, data elements, tables and structures, table types and ranges tables, installed with abapGit or as a program named ZDDIC_FINDER.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 58 months.
create-easy-ui5create-easy-ui5An npm-init and npx wrapper that runs the Easy-UI5 Yeoman generator without a global Yeoman install, handing control to generator-easy-ui5 and forwarding any arguments.community org, ui5
create-wdi5create-wdi5An npm initializer that adds wdi5 end-to-end testing to an existing UI5 application, installing WebdriverIO's peer dependencies, writing a wdio.conf file and setting an npm script.community org, ui5
dbg_value_statementdbg_value_statementAn ABAP Debugger script that turns a variable's structure or table into the VALUE statement that recreates it, with a tree explorer, also callable as a function module from a report.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 57 months.
dev-approuterdev-approuterA development-time wrapper for the SAP Application Router that serves UI5 and CDS modules once they are added to the project as dependencies.community org, cap
drawio-btp-diagram-skillsdrawio-btp-diagram-skillsTwo Claude Code skills that take a BTP architecture described in words through a Mermaid sketch to draw.io XML, with a structural and a visual review after the drawing.independent, btp
The README tells you to fork before cloning, because Claude rewrites `references/` and `SKILL.md` in place as you use it, so a clone shared between people changes under all of them. Installing means `git` and `ln` on macOS or Linux and a symlink into `~/.claude/skills`. Fine positioning stays manual: the coordinates Claude writes can be rough apart from the centre coordinates of elements joined by a straight arrow and the containment relationships.
drawio-skill-sapdrawio-skill-sapA GitHub Copilot agent skill that writes BTP solution diagrams as uncompressed draw.io XML against the SAP BTP Solution Diagram Design Guideline, with SAP's own shape library bundled.independent, btp
dump_infodump_infoDisplays the variables an ABAP short dump captured, for dumps selected on a selection screen; its documentation does not state which dumps it reads, which releases it runs on or how it installs.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 69 months.
eclipsADT-o-mateclipsADT-o-matA Windows PowerShell wizard that downloads an Eclipse release, installs ABAP Development Tools into it with the p2 director, and adds the ADT plugins picked from a catalog of fifteen.independent, abap
Windows only, with PowerShell 7 (`pwsh`) installed; the run needs access to `download.eclipse.org`, `tools.hana.ondemand.com`, `eclipse.devepos.com` and the update site of every plugin selected, from the machine it installs on. A plugin outside the catalog is installed only after someone adds its update site and feature group id to `catalog.json`.
enforce-export-coverageenforce-export-coverageA static-analysis command line that checks every exported TypeScript function has a corresponding test, without running the test suite.independent, general
It reads TypeScript exports only; a project written in plain JavaScript has no exported functions for it to extract. A call to the function name in a test file counts as tested, and a call through property access such as `.foo(` does not.
eslint-plugin-better-cap-configeslint-plugin-better-cap-configA set of ESLint rules that read CAP configuration and flag the cds settings that have since been deprecated, putting that check in the linter a project already runs, with no dependencies of its own.independent, cap
express-icf-shimexpress-icf-shimA shim that runs an ABAP ICF handler written against if_http_extension behind an Express 4.x server, for ABAP transpiled to JavaScript and run on Node.js in testing and continuous integration.community org, abap
forsap-s4hana-private-simulatorforsap-s4hana-private-simulatorA CAP project standing in for S/4HANA Private Edition OData APIs on localhost, serving API_BUSINESS_PARTNER's A_Supplier entity over OData V4 and, through an adapter, V2.independent, cap
generator-easy-ui5generator-easy-ui5A Yeoman meta-generator that scaffolds UI5 projects, prompting for a target platform, and loads further sub-generators from the UI5 Community for TypeScript apps, launchpad plugins and libraries.community org, ui5
generator-ui5-addgenerator-ui5-addA Yeoman generator that creates UI5 tooling-extension projects and manages the tooling extensions of an existing project, from the bestOfUI5 catalogue.community org, ui5
Release and repository quiet for 33 months.
generator-ui5-appgenerator-ui5-appA Yeoman generator, built on the official UI5 tooling, that scaffolds a new UI5 application in one pass, run as a plug-in for Easy-UI5 or standalone, ready for npm start.community org, ui5
generator-ui5-controlgenerator-ui5-controlA Yeoman generator that scaffolds a UI5 custom control structured for npm distribution, with a manual test app with live reload and a Jest test suite already wired in.community org, ui5
No published releases; repository quiet for 66 months.
generator-ui5-flp-plugingenerator-ui5-flp-pluginA generator, built on the official UI5 tooling, that scaffolds a Fiori Launchpad plugin component with sample shell extension code and an Opa5 test, as a plug-in for Easy-UI5.community org, ui5
generator-ui5-librarygenerator-ui5-libraryA Yeoman generator, built on the official UI5 tooling, that scaffolds a new UI5 library as a plug-in for Easy-UI5.community org, ui5
generator-ui5-library-af-deploygenerator-ui5-library-af-deployA Yeoman generator that writes the SAP BTP Application Frontend deployment configuration, mta.yaml, ui5-deploy.yaml, xs-app.json and xs-security.json, into an existing UI5 library project.independent, ui5
It targets the Application Frontend service only — not the HTML5 application repository — fixes authentication to IAS, and always creates new service instances, so reusing existing ones means editing the generated `mta.yaml` afterwards. Version 0.1.0 is the only release.
generator-ui5-library-webcgenerator-ui5-library-webcA Yeoman generator that scaffolds a UI5 library wrapping UI5 Web Components on the official UI5 tooling, run through Easy-UI5 or standalone, and served afterwards with npm start.community org, ui5
No published releases; repository quiet for 35 months.
generator-ui5-projectgenerator-ui5-projectA Yeoman generator for a UI5 project holding several applications in npm workspaces, with eight subgenerators for recurring tasks and a choice of six deployment targets.community org, ui5
Not for a single-application project with no deployment configuration: for that the README points to [generator-ui5-app](artifact:ui5-community-generator-ui5-app) instead.
generator-ui5-react-nestgenerator-ui5-react-nestA Yeoman generator that scaffolds a pnpm monorepo with a UI5 app and a Vite React app, which the UI5 app embeds through a custom control, UI5Nest, rather than an iframe.independent, ui5
Quiet Release and repository quiet for 38 months.
Functional boundary The scaffold is JavaScript and not TypeScript, and `react-router-dom` and UI5 Web Components are not included; its README leaves both for the project to add.
generator-ui5-ts-appgenerator-ui5-ts-appA Yeoman generator, built on the official UI5 CLI, that scaffolds a new UI5 application in TypeScript with its tsconfig and UI5 CLI configuration, as a plug-in for Easy-UI5.community org, ui5
generator-ui5-ts-app-fclgenerator-ui5-ts-app-fclA generator that scaffolds a UI5 TypeScript application built around the FlexibleColumnLayout and bound to an OData service, asking for the endpoint, entity set, key and fields to show.community org, ui5
generator-ui5-ts-flp-plugingenerator-ui5-ts-flp-pluginAn Easy-UI5 generator that scaffolds a SAP Fiori launchpad plugin in TypeScript with the UI5 CLI: a header button, a user menu action or a background service with no UI.community org, ui5
generator-ui5-ts-librarygenerator-ui5-ts-libraryA Yeoman generator, built on the official UI5 tooling, that scaffolds a new UI5 library in TypeScript as a plug-in for Easy-UI5.community org, ui5
generator-ui5-wdi5generator-ui5-wdi5A Yeoman generator that scaffolds wdi5 end-to-end test configuration and sample tests into a UI5 app, wrapping npm init wdi5 in prompts and run through Easy-UI5.community org, ui5
No published releases; repository quiet for 27 months.
git-env-branchesgit-env-branchesA command line that shows, for a list of feature branches, which environment branches such as DEV, ACC and master each one has been merged into.independent, general
A team that does not keep one long-lived branch per environment has no environment branches for it to compare feature branches against. What it reports is the merge state of branches in Git, so it says nothing about whether a merged change has been built or deployed to the environment.
gladiusgladiusAn ABAP project for learning and challenging with the ABAP Unit Test Framework, written up across four blog posts by its author, with a README that is only those links.independent, abap
Graphviz-browserGraphviz-browserA static page that draws a Graphviz graph in a browser, written for the ABAP debugger object graph extension and deployable as BSP pages in the system the debugger runs in.independent, abap
hacking-away-sampleapphacking-away-sampleappA UI5con 2022 demo app showing an end-to-end TypeScript setup for a UI5 application with a custom UI5 library, backed by a CAP service, in a pnpm monorepo with wdi5 tests.community org, ui5
HammerHammerA native macOS code editor for ABAP and CDS, with an Object Navigator, Transport Organizer, Data Browser and Gateway Client in the same app as the editor.independent, abap
It runs on macOS only. Hammer Core Services, the part installed into the SAP system, needs that system on ABAP Platform 2023 or newer with SAP_BASIS 758 or newer, and installing it needs a user who can create development objects and run background jobs in that system.
Hammer Core ServicesHammer Core ServicesThe ABAP-side component for Hammer, adding a connection to the SAP system, lock handling, SICF service control and abapGit integration.independent, abap
hana-linterhana-linterA command line that checks the names of the native SAP HANA artifact files in a CAP project, and the identifiers inside them, against regex rules the project keeps in a config file.independent, cap
Everything it checks is a name: a file name under `rootDir`, or an identifier a parser extracted from a file, so a convention that cannot be written as a regex over one name has no rule shape here. Content rules targeting `.hdbanalyticalprivilege` or `.hdbconstraint` return no results, which the README states as not yet implemented, so conventions centred on those two artifact types go unchecked.
HR_DMEHR_DMEA read-only SAP GUI report that lists every infotype, payroll cluster and assignment table holding data for one SAP HCM person or organisational object.independent, abap
jest-environment-ui5jest-environment-ui5A Jest test environment named ui5 that boots UI5 from a local HTML file into jsdom, so UI5 unit tests run in Node.js with no web server and no browser.independent, ui5
Joule in SAP Build CodeJoule in SAP Build CodeJoule's generative AI inside SAP Build Code, pitched as "optimized for Java and JavaScript application development": opened from SAP Business Application Studio's activity bar, slash commands generate a CAP data model, services, sample data, business logic and a Fiori elements UI.sap official, cap
karma-ui5-transpilekarma-ui5-transpileA Karma preprocessor that transpiles a UI5 project's sources with the ui5-tooling-transpile configuration in its ui5.yaml.community org, ui5
kts982/mcp-sap-guikts982/mcp-sap-guiSAP GUI for Windows through the Scripting API, deliberately client-agnostic, with CI, docs, a dependency audit and tagged releases wired up around it.independent, abap
Driving the GUI reaches whatever a user can reach, which is business data and not a development surface. Decide what an agent may do in a session before granting one, not after. Windows only. The HTTP transport is meant for team use but binds to localhost, and unattended multi-user operation is listed as not yet available — a limitation and also the safer default.
mcp-sap-guimcp-sap-guiThe earliest of the SAP GUI servers in the atlas. It works the screen by coordinates and hands back a screenshot after each action, with a setup script and a short path from clone to a driven transaction.independent, abap
Driving the GUI reaches whatever a user can reach, which is business data and not a development surface. Decide what an agent may do in a session before granting one, not after. It has also not been touched since February 2025, which the maintenance reading states — the three later entries here are where the CI, the Web GUI and the testing framing went.
mockAmockAA free mocking framework for ABAP, published under the Apache License 2.0.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 93 months.
mockup_loadermockup_loaderA tool that loads ABAP unit test data prepared in Excel as TAB-delimited text into ABAP structures and tables, and generates interface stubs that return that mock data.independent, abap
Modernization Agents for SAP on AWSModernization Agents for SAP on AWSAWS's suite of agents for SAP modernisation work: custom ABAP converted for S/4HANA, PI/PO interfaces moved to Integration Suite, BW objects moved to SAP Datasphere, deployed into a customer's own AWS account and reached only after registration.partner, abap
There is nothing to clone here: "Access is provided through a registration page. Once registered, you will receive access to the GitHub repository containing the agents, deployment guides, and documentation", and that repository answers 404 to anyone who has not registered, so neither the agent code nor the deployment guides can be read before the form is filled in. AWS states the agents are published as an unsupported solution, with customers responsible for testing and securing the code before deploying in production, and that they are intended for non-production SAP environments rather than production systems. The documentation link in the README is still a placeholder.
my-ide-actionsmy-ide-actionsA collection of eight ABAP Development Tools IDE Actions covering class creation, conversion of classic Open SQL to ABAP SQL, code snippets and RAP tooling.independent, abap
ODAPUODAPUA UI5 app installed with abapGit that builds and saves test requests for OData services and connects to ABAP Push Channels, on S/4HANA systems.independent, abap
off-stack-abapoff-stack-abapA demonstration of off-stack ABAP development: one class with an add method, linted by abaplint, transpiled to JavaScript and run with its ABAP Unit tests on Node.js.independent, abap
open-abap-coreopen-abap-coreReusable ABAP functionality for code transpiled by @abaplint/transpiler: the core ABAP artifacts that code runs against on Node.js.community org, abap
open-steamgateopen-steamgateAn ABAP application server you clone and run on your own machine: transpiled ABAP serving classic /IWBEP/ OData v2 to Fiori over a local database, with no SAP system attached.independent, abap
Not a system to run a business application on: there is no business application in it, and what it implements of the language, the dictionary and Gateway is a stated subset of each. It is a clean-room reimplementation of the `/IWBEP/` interfaces that bundles no SAP source and no standard DDIC, so a service that reads standard objects has nothing to read, and `ANORMALIES.md` records every place the runtime differs from SAP before any workaround is written.
openui5-error-collectoropenui5-error-collectorA UI5 library that collects a running app's JavaScript errors, unhandled Promise rejections and UI5 log events, and can post them to a backend with navigator.sendBeacon.independent, ui5
Release and repository quiet for 43 months.
openui5-smart-mockserveropenui5-smart-mockserverAn extended UI5 MockServer that generates meaningful mock data with Faker.js, from the metadata's sap:semantics annotations or from rules that map an OData property to a Faker method.independent, ui5
ordersordersA sample reuse service for managing orders, with its own Fiori UI, written to show how a CAP plugin is built and consumed: embedded in the consuming application or run standalone over OData.sap official, cap
Not in production. SAP states it is just a sample, not optimised for performance or security.
orders-javaorders-javaA sample reuse service for managing orders, with its own Fiori UI, in the capire/orders-java repository; its README is the one orders carries and names no runtime.sap official, cap
Not in production. SAP states it is just a sample, not optimised for performance or security.
personal-application-studiopersonal-application-studioA Theia distribution for SAP developers, published as a Docker image with ABAP and UI5 language support and a template wizard already in it.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 68 months.
pokrakam/abapDevSysInitpokrakam/abapDevSysInitA single ABAP report that automates setting up a new ABAP Developer Edition or trial system, from the user profile and a GitHub RFC destination to fetching abapGit and pulling repositories.independent, abap
Quiet No published releases; repository quiet for 24 months.
Functional boundary Not against a system holding local repository changes that have not been pushed: Pull Repos overwrites every repository named in zdevsysinit_params, which is why the maintainer leaves that box unticked and calls it a danger zone. The maintainer calls the whole report work in progress, to be used at own risk.
regression_testregression_testA snapshot library for ABAP that records a value once and compares against it on every later run, from either the debugger or a unit test, storing snapshots in eCATT test data containers.independent, abap
Quiet No published releases; repository quiet for 28 months.
Functional boundary Values the test data container cannot hold: references of any kind, complex structures, and tables whose line type is a complex structure or another table. Structures must be defined in the ABAP Dictionary, so one declared locally cannot be stored at all.
repository-templaterepository-templateThe template SAP's own repositories start from — LICENSE, the REUSE dep5 file, a code of conduct and the rest of the compliance furniture, so a new project does not assemble it by hand.community org, cap
reviewsreviewsA sample reuse service for managing reviews, with its own Fiori UI, written to show how a CAP plugin is built and consumed, and used in the bookstore sample.sap official, cap
Not in production. SAP states it is just a sample, not optimised for performance or security.
reviews-javareviews-javaA sample reuse service for managing reviews, with a Vue UI, in the capire/reviews-java repository, written to show how a CAP plugin is built and used in the bookstore sample.sap official, cap
Not in production. SAP states it is just a sample, not optimised for performance or security.
SAP BTP Solution Diagram GuidelinesSAP BTP Solution Diagram GuidelinesSAP's visual language for BTP solution diagrams, in line with the SAP Fiori Horizon principles and colour palette, with editable templates for draw.io and PowerPoint.sap official, btp
SAP Build AppsSAP Build AppsSAP's low-code platform for web and native mobile applications, built by drag and drop, with no-code backends and access to SAP systems through BTP authentication and destinations.sap official, btp
SAP Build CodeSAP Build CodeSAP's development environment on BTP for SAPUI5, SAP Fiori, mobile and CAP applications that run on the SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry Runtime, in which Joule generates models, services, logic, tests and apps.sap official, btp
SAP Business Application StudioSAP Business Application StudioSAP's development environment for business applications, delivered as a cloud service and opened in a browser, where work happens in preconfigured dev spaces.sap official, btp
SAP Continuous Integration and DeliverySAP Continuous Integration and DeliveryA BTP service that runs SAP's predefined CI/CD pipelines for designated SAP development projects, building, testing and deploying the changes pushed to a connected Git repository.sap official, btp
SAP TCode RunnerSAP TCode RunnerA VS Code extension that opens an SAP transaction inside VS Code's Simple Browser through the system's WebGUI endpoint, with a sidebar for the code, its favourites and the transactions run last.independent, abap
Nothing opens until an SAP WebGUI endpoint is configured, and the page names the Basis team as the source of that URL. Use also needs the extension owner's approval, requested by an issue on the extension's GitHub repository, after which the owner sends the configuration instructions.
SAP Translation HubSAP Translation HubSAP's translation service for software texts and documents, drawing on repositories of verified and company translations and on machine translation by SAP's neural MT or large language models.sap official, btp
SAP Web IDE Full-StackSAP Web IDE Full-StackSAP's IDE service on BTP for SAPUI5 and SAP Fiori apps, full-stack SaaS applications, SAP S/4HANA extensions, hybrid mobile apps and IoT apps, with an SDK for extending the IDE itself.sap official, btp
sap-architecturesap-architectureA Claude Code plugin and portable agent skill that turns a plain-English description into a BTP diagram in SAP Architecture Center style, checked by a validator before it is handed over.independent, btp
A diagram of anything other than an SAP, BTP or on-premise landscape: the skill is tuned to the Horizon style and its 71 templates. It drafts rather than finishes, and its README budgets 15 to 30 minutes of edits in draw.io per diagram. Without Python the validator does not run.
SAP-archive/digital-manufacturing-test-automation-samplesSAP-archive/digital-manufacturing-test-automation-samplesImportable Tricentis test modules for the standard SAP Digital Manufacturing applications, published so a project can build its own automated test cases from them.sap official, digital-manufacturing
The declared repository is archived.
sap-cap-debuggersap-cap-debuggerAttaches a debugger to a CAP application already running on Cloud Foundry — enables the Node inspector inside the container, assigns a port and hands you a Chrome DevTools or VS Code attach.independent, cap
sap-cds-erdsap-cds-erdAn AWK script of roughly 200 lines that reads .cds files and sketches an entity-relationship diagram as Mermaid output, with nothing to install beyond awk.independent, cap
No published releases; repository quiet for 26 months.
SAP-NPM-API-collectionSAP-NPM-API-collectionCollected API documentation extracted from SAP-published npm packages, including the ones that ship no public repository.independent, cap
sap-odata-explorersap-odata-explorerA Rust CLI and desktop app for exploring and testing SAP OData services against real systems — catalog discovery, metadata browsing, an F4 value-help picker and a Fiori-readiness linter — with an agent skill shipped beside it.independent, btp
Its README calls it early-stage — the core workflows run end-to-end against real systems and packaging, documentation and polish are stated as still evolving. A Rust binary rather than an npm install, so the platform build matters.
sap-russia/ZRS_ABAP_SOURCE_SCANsap-russia/ZRS_ABAP_SOURCE_SCANA report that searches code inside modifications and enhancements without depending on SAP HANA.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 66 months.
SAP-samples/abap-platform-jakSAP-samples/abap-platform-jakA sample JSON-to-ABAP conversion library for an ABAP environment on SAP Cloud Platform, published to show what APACK, the ABAP package and dependency manager, can do.sap official, abap
Not in production: "This repository contains sample code which should not be used in production", and the README sends a production reader to the officially supported libraries instead.
SAP-samples/abap-platform-rap-workshopsSAP-samples/abap-platform-rap-workshopsWorkshop materials for ABAP Cloud and RAP hands-on sessions: the RAP400, RAP500, RAP510, RAP610 and RAP620 exercises sit in this repository, and the rest of SAP's RAP workshop series is linked from its README.sap official, abap
SAP-samples/adaptation-project-exercisesSAP-samples/adaptation-project-exercisesA UI5Con workshop on building SAPUI5 Adaptation Projects, which customise a released application through controller and fragment extensions without changing its source, run in SAP Business Application Studio.sap official, ui5
SAP-samples/cap-bookshop-wdi5SAP-samples/cap-bookshop-wdi5A CAP bookshop sample with a wdi5 test suite around it, used in the accompanying SAP tutorial on setting up automated system tests and a CI/CD pipeline for CAP projects.sap official, cap
SAP-samples/cap-local-development-workshopSAP-samples/cap-local-development-workshopA reCAP 2025 workshop touring CAP's local-development toolset in seven exercises: cds watch, SQLite, configuration profiles, mocking, local messaging and monorepos, ending with remote debugging.sap official, cap
SAP-samples/cap-tour-hands-onSAP-samples/cap-tour-hands-onAn eight-exercise tour of CAP features: mocked auth and messaging, the cds REPL, plugin authoring, status-transition flows, testing, declarative constraints and API client packages.sap official, cap
SAP-samples/cloud-abap-rapSAP-samples/cloud-abap-rapA RAP business object that generates other RAP business objects from a table, behaviour definitions, projections and value helps included, so a developer starts on business logic rather than boilerplate.sap official, abap
SAP-samples/joule-gui-automation-and-integrationSAP-samples/joule-gui-automation-and-integrationSample Joule capabilities that drive an SAP GUI for Windows session through the SAP Business Client's frontend actions, and patterns for feeding a GUI session's own state back into Joule.sap official, abap
SAP-samples/s4hana-gcts-badiSAP-samples/s4hana-gcts-badiA BAdI implementation that wires the ABAP transport organizer to gCTS, so releasing a transport task also commits it to Git and registers the release.sap official, abap
SAP-samples/teched2025-DT266SAP-samples/teched2025-DT266A TechEd 2025 hands-on workshop troubleshooting and optimising ABAP Cloud extensions in cloud ERP with the ABAP Debugger, Feed Reader, ABAP Cross Trace, ABAP Trace, SQL Trace and the Table Comparison Tool.sap official, abap
SAP-samples/ui5-typescript-control-librarySAP-samples/ui5-typescript-control-libraryAn example UI5 control library written in TypeScript, with its controls, themes, tests and the full tooling setup for TypeScript transpilation, build and linting.sap official, ui5
SAP-samples/ui5-typescript-helloworldSAP-samples/ui5-typescript-helloworldA small UI5 application with a step-by-step guide to how its TypeScript setup is built from scratch, from the tsconfig and ui5-tooling-transpile wiring through to testing.sap official, ui5
SAP-samples/ui5-typescript-tutorialSAP-samples/ui5-typescript-tutorialA roughly two-hour tutorial teaching TypeScript for UI5 application development by building a small weather-lookup app, from generator scaffolding through custom controls and testing.sap official, ui5
SAP/architecture-centerSAP/architecture-centerThe repository the SAP Architecture Center site is built from: SAP's reference architectures, each drawn as editable draw.io diagrams, with Mermaid for flows.sap official, btp
SAP2MooseSAP2MooseAn ABAP program that extracts model data from a system as a SOMIX model, for Moose2Model to draw as a dependency diagram.independent, abap
sapbrunosapbrunoA terminal UI that runs Bruno collections against a CAP service, fetching an OAuth2 client_credentials token before each run so collections that fail with 401 under bru run work in CI.independent, cap
sapguisapguiThirty classic transactions, SE80 and SE16N among them, rebuilt as abap2UI5 apps and installed with abapGit into a standard ABAP system.independent, abap
Not on ABAP Cloud: the system tables and the classic Workbench APIs the screens use are not released for the ABAP Cloud language version, and there is no 7.02 version below the 7.50 floor either. Not where the full original function is needed, since only the listed transactions exist and about 300 buttons and fields are shown disabled. The authorization checks are rebuilt rather than the originals, which is why the README asks that the screens be tried with a restricted user on a sandbox before the ICF service is opened to more people.
sapgui.mcpsapgui.mcpDrives the SAP desktop GUI and the Web GUI, and is built for the jobs a REST client cannot do — end-to-end testing against the real screen, visual validation, and screenshots for documentation.independent, abap
Not reachable Not reachable since 2026-10-20.
Functional boundary Driving the GUI reaches whatever a user can reach, which is business data and not a development surface. Decide what an agent may do in a session before granting one, not after. And a UI test is slower and more brittle than the layer below it: this is for what only the screen can answer.
SAPient MCPSAPient MCPAn MCP server for SAP GUI automation built on RoboSAPiens, the Robot Framework library, rather than on the Scripting API directly, over stdio or SSE depending on the client.independent, abap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
se16nse16nAn abap2UI5 app that browses and filters the content of a table in the browser, on ABAP Cloud systems that have no SE16N as well as on premise.independent, abap
Not as it stands on a system past development: it reads the contents of any table the user names without an authorisation check of its own, so access is bounded only by whatever restrictions exist on the underlying handler or service. The README asks for your own checks first, naming `AUTHORITY-CHECK` on `S_TABU_DIS`/`S_TABU_NAM`, and for a restriction on who may run the app. There is no 7.02 downport either, because the selection-screen dependency has no `702` branch.
shared-dbshared-dbA CAP sample showing how one domain model is shared across several apps that all rely on it, used to deploy microservices against a shared database, with capire's Microservices with CAP guide as background.sap official, cap
Not in production. SAP states it is just a sample, not optimised for performance or security.
shared-db-javashared-db-javaA CAP sample showing how one domain model is shared across several apps that all rely on it, in the capire/shared-db-java repository, with capire's Microservices with CAP guide as background.sap official, cap
Not in production. SAP states it is just a sample, not optimised for performance or security.
Simple Data ExplorerSimple Data ExplorerA multi-window SAP GUI explorer for tables, views and CDS SQL views, with filters that re-read as they change, foreign-key navigation, a join builder and pivot tables.independent, abap
Smart DebuggerSmart DebuggerA debugger script for the SAP GUI New Debugger that records every step and variable change of an ABAP program, so execution can be stepped backwards with F5 and F8.independent, abap
Source Code FinderSource Code FinderA report that searches ABAP source code in methods, enhancement implementations, DTPs and transformations for a word or a pattern with an asterisk, installed with abapGit.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 58 months.
spreadsheetimporter/packed-deployment-abapspreadsheetimporter/packed-deployment-abapA UI5 application template containing nothing but the Spreadsheet Importer, deployed once to an ABAP server so other apps reference that copy instead of bundling the component each time.community org, ui5
sql-consolesql-consoleA browser-based SQL console built on abap2UI5, in an Open SQL and a native ADBC variant, that shows a query's result as a filterable table without Eclipse or SAP GUI.independent, abap
It runs whatever SQL a user types without an authorisation check of its own, and the native path additionally uses ADBC, which bypasses ABAP authorisations and client separation; the README asks anyone running it beyond a development system to add authorisation checks and restrict who may start the app. The native console needs Standard ABAP, so on ABAP Cloud only the Open SQL console is available.
srbjsloggersrbjsloggerA browser JavaScript logger whose log, warn and error calls write prominent output to the console, loaded into a UI5 app through index.html or the manifest's resources.independent, ui5
Release and repository quiet for 37 months.
striezl/VariScanstriezl/VariScanAn ABAP program, Z_VARI_SCAN, that searches program variants for a value or pattern, doing for variants what RS_ABAP_SOURCE_SCAN does for source code, with each variant checked in a parallel task.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 62 months.
swixfort/Sdw.Abap.Diswixfort/Sdw.Abap.DiA dependency-injection container for ABAP: register classes or interfaces, then resolve an object with its dependencies already constructed.independent, abap
Not reachable since 2026-10-20.
teched2025-AD162teched2025-AD162An SAP TechEd 2025 workshop on building an SAP Fiori app with ABAP Cloud and SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities.sap official, abap
tool-bitool-biBuilds an ABAP batch input transaction through chained method calls, one per screen, field and value, then runs it directly or writes it to a batch input session.independent, abap
Tools for abapGitTools for abapGitA collection of helper programs around abapGit: start variants, mass label maintenance, repository export, a scheduler for the background logic, and the SSL test tool.independent, abap
Where abapGit itself is not installed in the system, since every tool here acts on its repositories.
trm-servertrm-serverThe server-side component of TRM, installed on source and target SAP systems to expose the RFC APIs a TRM client uses to import and export transports, closed to users not listed in /ATRM/USERS.independent, abap
UI5 ToolsUI5 ToolsA VS Code extension for UI5 developers that serves, proxies, builds and deploys UI5 projects from one workspace-wide configuration, with live reload, a Gateway deployer and a BSP importer.independent, ui5
ui5-appui5-appThe UI5 application in ui5-ecosystem-showcase that carries 18 of the repository's UI5 CLI extensions in one ui5.yaml and package.json, with Karma unit tests and WebdriverIO end-to-end tests.community org, ui5
ui5-bookshop-viewerui5-bookshop-viewerA standalone UI5 app in ui5-ecosystem-showcase that shows the cds-bookshop CAP server consumed inside the UI5 server through ui5-middleware-cap.community org, ui5
ui5-control-generatorui5-control-generatorA command-line generator that writes UI5 custom controls, in JavaScript or TypeScript, from the html files in a project, with control logic and renderer split into two files by default.independent, ui5
Release and repository quiet for 29 months.
ui5-deployerui5-deployerA custom module for UI5 Tooling that deploys Fiori/UI5 apps to SAP NetWeaver ABAP, SAP Cloud Platform Neo or Cloud Foundry, configured in a deployer section of ui5.yaml.independent, ui5
ui5-errorhandler-sampleui5-errorhandler-sampleTwo UI5 apps in one repository consuming the same npm package two ways: once as a UI5 AMD module reached through a resource path the package declares, once as a plain JavaScript class converted at build time.independent, ui5
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
ui5-fe-mockserver-tutorialui5-fe-mockserver-tutorialTen exercises on @sap-ux/ui5-middleware-fe-mockserver, published for Devtoberfest 2025 as a repository to clone and a site to read, each exercise a Fiori elements app served from mock data instead of a backend.independent, ui5
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
ui5-i18n-excel-converterui5-i18n-excel-converterA command-line tool that exports a UI5 app's i18n properties files to an Excel sheet of keys and languages for translators and imports the translated sheet back into the files.independent, ui5
Release and repository quiet for 39 months.
ui5-journey-recorderui5-journey-recorderA Chrome extension that records clicks and inputs against a running UI5 app and generates OPA5 or wdi5 end-to-end test code from the recorded journey.community org, ui5
ui5-libui5-libA sample setup for developing a UI5 library in ui5-ecosystem-showcase, covering the whole cycle in one folder: a dev server, a build, linting, a QUnit testsuite and Karma unit tests.community org, ui5
ui5-middleware-approuterui5-middleware-approuterA UI5 CLI middleware that puts @sap/approuter in front of the UI5 dev server, proxying it to Cloud Foundry or XS Advanced destinations during development.community org, ui5
ui5-middleware-capui5-middleware-capA UI5 CLI middleware that runs a CDS server inside the UI5 dev server, mounted at a path the UI5 project configures, so one command serves the app and its CAP services.community org, ui5
ui5-middleware-destinationui5-middleware-destinationA UI5 Tooling server middleware that proxies requests to backends named in WebIDE-style destination files and serves the routes of a neo-app.json, with Basic Authentication only.independent, ui5
Quiet Release and repository quiet for 75 months.
Functional boundary It supports Basic Authentication only, so a backend that needs another method is not reachable through it.
ui5-middleware-hmrui5-middleware-hmrAn experimental UI5 middleware for hot module replacement, swapping a changed module in during development instead of reloading the whole page.community org, ui5
ui5-middleware-iasyncui5-middleware-iasyncA UI5 dev-server middleware built on browsersync.io that syncs user interactions across connected browsers over a websocket, replaying an action from one browser in the others for manual testing.community org, ui5
ui5-middleware-indexui5-middleware-indexA UI5 dev-server middleware that delivers a configured welcome page, index.html by default, for the root path instead of the ui5-server directory listing.community org, ui5
ui5-middleware-livereloadui5-middleware-livereloadA dev-server middleware that adds live reload to the UI5 dev server, reloading the page when the sources in the app's webapp folder change.community org, ui5
ui5-middleware-odata-recorderui5-middleware-odata-recorderA UI5 server middleware that records the OData traffic a running app makes against a real backend and writes entity JSON files and metadata.xml that the Fiori elements mock server can replay.independent, ui5
It records what the app actually asked for, so an entity no recorded journey touched is not in the dataset and replay will not answer for it. Its own README asks for `fiori-tools-appreload` to be disabled while recording, because a reload loop is what happens otherwise.
ui5-middleware-oidcui5-middleware-oidcA UI5 Tooling server middleware that puts an OpenID Connect login in front of the UI5 dev server, built on express-openid-connect, which receives its configuration block as written.independent, ui5
ui5-middleware-oneloginui5-middleware-oneloginA UI5 dev-server middleware that logs into a system such as SAP Gateway with headless Playwright on the first request and reuses the session cookie for every later request.community org, ui5
ui5-middleware-route-proxyui5-middleware-route-proxyA UI5 server middleware that forwards requests matching a route prefix to a backend host, configured per route in ui5.yaml, with credentials read from a .env file rather than the yaml.independent, ui5
Release and repository quiet for 36 months.
ui5-middleware-serveframeworkui5-middleware-serveframeworkA UI5 middleware that serves a UI5 framework built on the local machine to the dev server, in place of a framework version resolved another way.community org, ui5
ui5-middleware-servestaticui5-middleware-servestaticA UI5 dev-server middleware that serves static resources from a filesystem path or an installed npm package path, built on serve-static, with either path settable through an environment variable.community org, ui5
ui5-middleware-simpleproxyui5-middleware-simpleproxyA UI5 dev-server middleware that proxies requests from the local dev server to a backend system, so the app can reach the backend's services during development.community org, ui5
ui5-middleware-ui5ui5-middleware-ui5A UI5 middleware that lets one UI5 application be included as a dependency of another and served through that application's dev server.community org, ui5
ui5-middleware-webjarsui5-middleware-webjarsA UI5 dev-server middleware that loads JAR files from a configured path and serves the static resources bundled inside them, following the WebJars convention of META-INF/resources/.community org, ui5
ui5-middleware-websocketui5-middleware-websocketUI5 middleware utilities that add WebSocket support to Express-based dev servers such as the UI5 server, which has no WebSocket channel of its own.community org, ui5
ui5-moduleui5-moduleA custom UI5 control packaged as an npm package, which other showcases in ui5-ecosystem-showcase consume through ui5-tooling-modules.community org, ui5
ui5-monorepo-showcaseui5-monorepo-showcaseA pnpm workspace in which a UI5 app, a control library and a launchpad plugin, all TypeScript, are developed together, linked through the workspace protocol without publishing and started with one command.independent, ui5
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
ui5-plugin-loaderui5-plugin-loaderA UI5 Tooling v4 extension that registers a project's other extensions itself: one entry in ui5.yaml, and every dependency carrying a ui5-plugin-loader.json manifest is mounted as middleware and as a build task.independent, ui5
ui5-task-btp-manifestui5-task-btp-manifestA UI5 Tooling custom task that writes the surrounding app's sap.cloud service name into the bundled Spreadsheet Importer's manifest at build time, so the two match on SAP BTP.community org, ui5
ui5-task-cachebusterui5-task-cachebusterA UI5 builder task that cachebusts a standalone UI5 application by moving its build output into a timestamped subfolder and pointing index.html's resource roots at it.community org, ui5
ui5-task-cachebuster-indexingui5-task-cachebuster-indexingA UI5 builder task that copies the build output into a timestamped folder inside dist so the UI5 cachebuster can resolve it; it supports timestamps only, not the hash mode.independent, ui5
Release and repository quiet for 66 months.
ui5-task-check-eocpui5-task-check-eocpA UI5 builder task that matches the UI5 version in ui5.yaml against the versions retrieved from ui5.sap.com and warns during the build once that version's End of Cloud Provisioning quarter has been reached.independent, ui5
The version list comes from ui5.sap.com, so a build that cannot reach it has nothing to match the project's version against. It checks the version written in `ui5.yaml`; a framework version a deployed app loads from elsewhere is outside what it sees.
ui5-task-copyrightui5-task-copyrightA UI5 builder task that appends copyright headers to TypeScript, JavaScript and XML files on every build, so the header is not added to each source file by hand.community org, ui5
ui5-task-dts-generatorui5-task-dts-generatorA UI5 builder task that generates d.ts files, TypeScript type declarations, during the build of a UI5 library written in JavaScript, by wrapping @ui5/dts-generator.independent, ui5
ui5-task-flatten-libraryui5-task-flatten-libraryA UI5 builder task that flattens a library's build output, removing the project namespace and resources folder for deployment to SAP NetWeaver, now also offered by the UI5 CLI itself.community org, ui5
ui5-task-i18ncheckui5-task-i18ncheckA UI5 builder task that cross-checks every XML view against the app's i18n properties files and logs a warning where a translation is missing; views created in JavaScript are not checked.community org, ui5
ui5-task-minifierui5-task-minifierA UI5 builder task that minifies the HTML, CSS and JSON files the UI5 builder leaves as they are, with one switch per file type, using html-minifier-terser and clean-css.independent, ui5
ui5-task-minify-xmlui5-task-minify-xmlA UI5 builder task that minifies XML resources such as views and fragments, which a plain UI5 build otherwise ships unminified.community org, ui5
ui5-task-pwa-enablerui5-task-pwa-enablerA UI5 builder task that turns a UI5 application into a progressive web app by generating a web manifest and a service worker under one of five caching strategies.community org, ui5
ui5-task-transpileui5-task-transpileA UI5 Tooling task that transpiles TypeScript, ES modules and other ES6+ sources during the build so the UI5 runtime can load them.community org, ui5
ui5-task-transpile-genui5-task-transpile-genA UI5 builder task that transpiles ES6 to ES5, including async/await, with Babel at build time, registered in ui5.yaml with a bundle definition that includes the regenerator runtime.independent, ui5
Release and repository quiet for 50 months.
ui5-task-zipperui5-task-zipperA build task for the UI5 tooling that packages the UI5 build result, the webapp, as a zip archive at the end of the build.community org, ui5
ui5-tcode-finderui5-tcode-finderA browser page that searches SAP transaction codes by code, title or description and hands one over on a click: copied plain, copied with an /n or /o prefix, or opened in SAP GUI for HTML.independent, abap
ui5-test-runnerui5-test-runnerA standalone command line that runs a UI5 project's QUnit and OPA test pages in parallel browser instances, written for suites too large for one browser, and merges their coverage into one report.independent, ui5
ui5-tooling-lessui5-tooling-lessA UI5 CLI extension, a build task and a dev-server middleware, that compiles an app's Less files into CSS at build time and live while the UI5 server runs.community org, ui5
ui5-tooling-modulesui5-tooling-modulesA set of UI5 tooling extensions that load and convert plain npm packages into UI5 AMD-like modules, so the UI5 module loader can consume them.community org, ui5
ui5-tooling-stringreplaceui5-tooling-stringreplaceA UI5 CLI extension for string replacement during the build, for placeholders or tokens in source files that have to be replaced at build time.community org, ui5
ui5-tooling-transpileui5-tooling-transpileA UI5 CLI extension that transpiles modern JavaScript or TypeScript during the UI5 build, with a transformJSX option that handles JSX and TSX in the same step.community org, ui5
ui5-ts-modules-showcaseui5-ts-modules-showcaseA showcase demonstrating how to consume OSS npm libraries such as lodash from a UI5 TypeScript application using ui5-tooling-modules.community org, ui5
ui5-tsappui5-tsappA TypeScript UI5 application in ui5-ecosystem-showcase that consumes the repository's custom UI5 CLI extensions together in one app, importing ordinary npm packages such as Chart.js and Luxon.community org, ui5
ui5-tsapp-webcui5-tsapp-webcA TypeScript UI5 application in ui5-ecosystem-showcase that consumes @ui5/webcomponents and its Fiori and AI packages, with the UI5 CLI extensions that consumption needs.community org, ui5
ui5-tslibui5-tslibA TypeScript UI5 library in ui5-ecosystem-showcase, with a dev server, a build, linting, type checking, JSDoc generation and headless Karma unit tests with coverage.community org, ui5
ui5-tsmoduleui5-tsmoduleA TypeScript UI5 module in ui5-ecosystem-showcase, exported in the shape that lets UI5 apps consume it through ui5-tooling-modules.community org, ui5
ui5con-2026-ui5-linter-workshopui5con-2026-ui5-linter-workshopSAP's UI5con hands-on workshop that takes a legacy UI5 app, seeded with deprecated APIs and inline scripts, from its first UI5 linter report to a clean, CSP-compliant one.sap official, ui5
ui5con24-dev-envui5con24-dev-envA pnpm workspace in which a CAP server, a local Fiori launchpad and two UI5 apps — one reading OData V4 from CAP, one reading OData V2 from an ABAP system — run together from a single start command.independent, ui5
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
ui5pluginui5pluginThe SAPUI5 Extension for Visual Studio Code: completion, definitions, CodeLens, diagnostics, code actions, hover and an XML formatter for UI5 views, controllers and manifest.json.independent, ui5
Its README assumes a `manifest.json` with an app ID, JavaScript files that start with `sap.ui.define`, and access to ui5.sap.com to preload the standard library metadata. It says of TypeScript that ts-morph, its parser there, has drawbacks, and that not all linters work for TypeScript.
ui5plugin-linterui5plugin-linterA command-line linter for UI5 projects, run as ui5linter, that checks JavaScript and TypeScript classes, XML views and fragments, and i18n properties files.independent, ui5
Two of its JavaScript and TypeScript checks, EventTypeLinter and WrongNamespaceLinter, apply to TypeScript projects only.
ui5plugin-parserui5plugin-parserAn npm library that reads the metadata of the standard SAPUI5 classes and parses a project's own UI5 classes into objects listing their fields, methods, properties, aggregations, associations and events.independent, ui5
A project nested inside another is not parsed: its README says nested projects are not supported any more. A library installed from npm is read only when it ships its `-dbg.js` files and `manifest.json`.
upDOWNciupDOWNciA tool that uploads and downloads SAP Code Inspector check variants as XML files, one variant at a time or several in one ZIP file, installed through abapGit.independent, abap
urbani-saplinkurbani-saplinkAn SE16 clone shipped as SAPlink files: an ABAP report that reads a table named at runtime with up to 190 select-options, and a Web Dynpro application beside it.independent, abap
Quiet No published releases; repository quiet for 136 months.
No license Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
VERTEXVERTEXAn extension for ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse and VS Code that shows Simple Data Explorer, AVE and ACE in the editor over the developer's ADT connection.independent, abap
Vise_for_ABAPVise_for_ABAPA characterisation-test helper: ZCL_VISE=>GRIP records a field's value once and fails a later run if it has changed.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 59 months.
vite-plugin-cdsvite-plugin-cdsA CAP plugin that serves a Vite app from the app folder through cds watch, makes .cds files importable into the frontend build, and can polyfill enough of Node to run @sap/cds in the browser.independent, cap
vitest-environment-ui5vitest-environment-ui5A Vitest environment named ui5 that boots UI5 from a local HTML file into jsdom, so UI5 unit tests run in Node.js with no web server and no browser.independent, ui5
vscode-tabl-ddicvscode-tabl-ddicA VS Code extension that registers .tabl.ddic files, the DDIC DDL form of an ABAP table definition, as a language of their own with a TextMate grammar for syntax highlighting, and nothing more.community org, abap
It declares a VS Code engine and binds to the .tabl.ddic file extension, so it does nothing for a table definition opened in another editor, or read from a system rather than from a file on disk.
vscode-ui5-language-assistantvscode-ui5-language-assistantSAP's VS Code extension for SAPUI5 and OpenUI5: completion, validation, hover tooltips, go to definition, quick fix and formatting for XML views, and completion and validation for manifest.json.sap official, ui5
vscode-ui5-odata-mock-generatorvscode-ui5-odata-mock-generatorVS Code extension that generates JSON mock data files for an OData service from its metadata, with faker.js values, per-set sizes, value lists and values tied to other properties.independent, ui5
wdi5-cucumberwdi5-cucumberA wdi5 plugin that extends wdi5's end-to-end testing with Cucumber-style BDD scenarios, run against UI5 Fiori Elements apps.community org, ui5
Archived The declared repository is archived.
No license Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
wdi5-fe-selectorswdi5-fe-selectorsA set of wdi5-flavoured control selectors tuned for locating controls in Fiori Elements apps, extending the selectors wdi5 itself provides.community org, ui5
Archived The declared repository is archived.
No license Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
wdi5-workshopwdi5-workshopA pseudo-monorepo of two wdi5 workshops, from UI5con 2022 and Devtoberfest 2022, teaching end-to-end testing of UI5 apps from a beginner start to continuous integration.community org, ui5
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
wdio-qunit-servicewdio-qunit-serviceA WebdriverIO service that runs QUnit HTML test pages in a browser and reports the results as WebdriverIO test suites, presented as a drop-in replacement for Karma-based QUnit setups.independent, ui5
wdio-ui5-servicewdio-ui5-serviceEnd-to-end testing for UI5 as a WebdriverIO service that drives a real browser through UI5's own test API, so a test addresses controls with OPA5-compatible selectors rather than DOM nodes.community org, ui5
Where the login cannot be completed by configuration. Its authentication page states that multi-factor authentication is not supported, because a media break between browser and phone cannot be managed out of the box.
web-abap2UI5web-abap2UI5A build pipeline and the page it deploys: the abap2UI5 backend downported, transpiled to JavaScript and webpacked into one script that runs inside a browser tab, with no server and no SAP system behind it.community org, abap
It is not the framework and takes no framework fixes: those belong upstream in abap2UI5, and nothing under `src/`, `downport/`, `output/` and `build/` here is a source file. The build is frozen on pinned commits with no scheduled rebuild, so it does not show what abap2UI5 main does today, samples in subfolders of the samples repository are excluded because they require a real SAP system, and a known upstream transpiler issue leaves `check_on_init( )` always false, so backend-built view XML may not be returned.
XLF TranslatorXLF TranslatorTakes an uploaded XLIFF file and makes every entry that carries a translation element editable in the page, aimed mainly at the ABAP Cloud content the Maintain Translation app generates.independent, abap
Texts that must not leave the organisation: the file is uploaded to the site to be translated, and neither the tool's page nor the site's data protection notice says where it is processed or how long it is kept.
zed-cds-extensionzed-cds-extensionCDS language support for the Zed editor, wiring the CDS language server into it.independent, cap
ztoadztoadAn Open SQL editor for ABAP that runs a query written in the editor pane on the server and shows the rows in an ALV window, with a pane of saved queries to reuse and share.independent, abap
ZUML_DIAGRAMZUML_DIAGRAMAn ABAP program that draws a UML class diagram of chosen objects, rendered over the internet through PlantUML and shown inline in CL_GUI_HTML_VIEWER.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 54 months.
Related capabilities
Distinct from static analysisStatic analysisCatching problems in code before it runs: naming, obsolete statements, security findings, and compatibility with a target environment. Style linting, security scanning and cloud-readiness checks are often treated as one concern.SAP and community, narrow by design, which says what is wrong and leaves the source where it is.
Distinct from unit testingUnit testingTesting application logic without a running business process — and the test doubles that make dependencies on the database and on framework services tractable.SAP and community, unassessed, which proves logic in code and keeps the proof.
Managed delivery of changes belongs to transport managementChange promotionMoving a change through the environments of a landscape, from development through test to production, and knowing which change has reached which environment. A CI/CD pipeline builds and tests on each source change, deployment puts a build onto its runtime, and getting source into git is source control.SAP and community, unassessed.
A CI/CD pipelineCI/CD pipelinesA pipeline that builds, tests and delivers an application each time its source repository changes, with a build log that shows which step failed. Deployment describes getting the build onto its target runtime.SAP only builds and tests on each source change, deploymentDeploymentGetting an application onto a runtime and keeping it there: build descriptors, deployment topology, service bindings and lifecycle operations. The target runtime determines how the application is packaged and configured.SAP and community, narrow by design puts a build onto its runtime, and getting source into git is source controlSource controlKeeping source code and development objects in version control, comparing their revisions, and moving them between development environments. Managed delivery of changes belongs to transport management.SAP and community, community owns it.
DeploymentDeploymentGetting an application onto a runtime and keeping it there: build descriptors, deployment topology, service bindings and lifecycle operations. The target runtime determines how the application is packaged and configured.SAP and community, narrow by design describes getting the build onto its target runtime.
Raising findings against a rule is static analysisStatic analysisCatching problems in code before it runs: naming, obsolete statements, security findings, and compatibility with a target environment. Style linting, security scanning and cloud-readiness checks are often treated as one concern.SAP and community, narrow by design.
Raising findings against rules is static analysisStatic analysisCatching problems in code before it runs: naming, obsolete statements, security findings, and compatibility with a target environment. Style linting, security scanning and cloud-readiness checks are often treated as one concern.SAP and community, narrow by design; reading an individual change is code reviewCode reviewReading a change before it moves on: which files or objects a change contains, what changed in each since an earlier version, and what a reviewer decided about each part. Comparing two versions of one object is where it starts; the review is the record kept of the decision.SAP and community, unassessed.
Raising findings against rules is static analysisStatic analysisCatching problems in code before it runs: naming, obsolete statements, security findings, and compatibility with a target environment. Style linting, security scanning and cloud-readiness checks are often treated as one concern.SAP and community, narrow by design; reading an individual change is code reviewCode reviewReading a change before it moves on: which files or objects a change contains, what changed in each since an earlier version, and what a reviewer decided about each part. Comparing two versions of one object is where it starts; the review is the record kept of the decision.SAP and community, unassessed.
Data shipped with an application for development and demonstration is seed dataSeed dataGetting realistic data into a service so it can be developed and demonstrated — initial data, per-tenant content, and believable volumes for testing.SAP and community, narrow by design.
Generating an application's source at design time is generatorsGeneratorsGetting from nothing to a project that runs, and from a project that runs to one that has the piece you just decided you need. Two different moments: the first is a one-time decision about layout, the second recurs for the life of the project.SAP and community, narrow by design.
Agent access to your codeAgent access to your codeLetting a coding agent read the project or the system you actually have, reach its model, its objects and its checks, and act on it. In file-based environments that works out of the box; complex systems need dedicated access capabilities. Whatever the environment, the agent also needs project- and framework-specific context, so it understands the thing in front of it rather than guessing from what it remembers of its training data. The transport is incidental: an MCP server, a language server or a CLI answer the same question, and what differs between them is how much of the real thing the agent can see. Distinct from MCP servers, which is a protocol adapter on your own running service, and from agent guidance, which is knowledge handed over as files rather than read from the thing itself.SAP and community, unassessed works with development objects instead of the user interface.
Distinct from editor supportEditor supportWorking in source code with the editor helping rather than treating it as text — completion, go-to-definition, inline errors, refactoring and preview.SAP and community, narrow by design, which is what the editor does once it is there: this is the download, the update site, the install and how the result reaches machines a developer does not administer.
Starting a coded project from a template is generatorsGeneratorsGetting from nothing to a project that runs, and from a project that runs to one that has the piece you just decided you need. Two different moments: the first is a one-time decision about layout, the second recurs for the life of the project.SAP and community, narrow by design, and building a native mobile client is mobile appsMobile appsBuilding a native iOS or Android app over business data: onboarding, offline sync against an OData service, device features, and the client that runs on the phone. Distinct from a web app opened in a phone's browser; operating a web app with a finger is touch operation.SAP and community, unassessed.
Starting a coded project from a template is generatorsGeneratorsGetting from nothing to a project that runs, and from a project that runs to one that has the piece you just decided you need. Two different moments: the first is a one-time decision about layout, the second recurs for the life of the project.SAP and community, narrow by design, and building a native mobile client is mobile appsMobile appsBuilding a native iOS or Android app over business data: onboarding, offline sync against an OData service, device features, and the client that runs on the phone. Distinct from a web app opened in a phone's browser; operating a web app with a finger is touch operation.SAP and community, unassessed.
Looking at what a table holds is browsing table dataBrowsing table dataLooking at what a system holds while developing or supporting it: the rows behind a key, the reference data a field points at, the tables that carry data for one object. Editing configuration records through maintenance screens is a different job, even where the same transaction does both.SAP and community, unassessed, even where one transaction does both.
Looking at what a system holds once you are inside one is browsing table dataBrowsing table dataLooking at what a system holds while developing or supporting it: the rows behind a key, the reference data a field points at, the tables that carry data for one object. Editing configuration records through maintenance screens is a different job, even where the same transaction does both.SAP and community, unassessed, and driving its screens as a program is GUI automationDriving the SAP GUIOperating the SAP GUI programmatically to perform tasks or test interactions through the actual screen. Agent access to your code works with development objects instead of the user interface.Community only.
Looking at what a system holds once you are inside one is browsing table dataBrowsing table dataLooking at what a system holds while developing or supporting it: the rows behind a key, the reference data a field points at, the tables that carry data for one object. Editing configuration records through maintenance screens is a different job, even where the same transaction does both.SAP and community, unassessed, and driving its screens as a program is GUI automationDriving the SAP GUIOperating the SAP GUI programmatically to perform tasks or test interactions through the actual screen. Agent access to your code works with development objects instead of the user interface.Community only.
Distinct from Web Components interopWeb Components interopUsing standards-based custom elements inside an app, and the question of which control set an app should be built from at all, two concerns that are often answered as one.SAP and community, narrow by design, which brings in standard custom elements, and from generatorsGeneratorsGetting from nothing to a project that runs, and from a project that runs to one that has the piece you just decided you need. Two different moments: the first is a one-time decision about layout, the second recurs for the life of the project.SAP and community, narrow by design, which scaffold a control project rather than being one.
Checking a file somebody uploaded is malware scanningMalware scanningChecking a file somebody uploaded before anyone else can download it — where the scan runs, what happens to the file meanwhile, and who is told when it fails.SAP only, and checking an application's own source for flaws is static analysisStatic analysisCatching problems in code before it runs: naming, obsolete statements, security findings, and compatibility with a target environment. Style linting, security scanning and cloud-readiness checks are often treated as one concern.SAP and community, narrow by design.
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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.
A Fiori Launchpad Sandbox for all your CAP-based projects - OverviewA Fiori Launchpad Sandbox for all your CAP-based projects - OverviewWhere cds-launchpad-plugin came from, told as a learning exercise: the author wanted a real problem to teach himself TypeScript on, and picked the thing he kept redoing in every CAP project — a launchpad to see all the UI applications in one place. The origin post for an entry whose 2023 update is also indexed here.published 2022-03-14
A Fiori Launchpad Sandbox for all your CAP-based projects – Sample project setupA Fiori Launchpad Sandbox for all your CAP-based projects – Sample project setupThe hands-on half published the same day as the overview: the launchpad module wired into the CAP sample repository, step by step from a global cds-dk install. Same-day pairs like this are worth keeping together — the overview argues, this one is the thing you follow.published 2022-03-14
A Handy Custom Report to Scan SAP CDS Views for Usage of Search StringsA Handy Custom Report to Scan SAP CDS Views for Usage of Search StringsA custom SE38 report, ZSCAN_CDS_VIEWS, reads each Z-prefixed CDS view's DDL source through the function module /ABEX/SEFW_MOD_CVA_HANA and scans it for a list of search strings, listing the view and matching code line in an ALV grid. The author built it because ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse's ABAP Source Search, the code search SAP ships, is unwieldy for scanning many custom views at once or searching several strings together.shasankgupta024, published 2026-01-08
ABAP - Create dumpABAP - Create dumpShows how to terminate an ABAP program on purpose with RAISE SHORTDUMP — from a freshly created exception instance, or one already caught in a TRY/CATCH where continuing no longer makes sense — so a hard-to-diagnose failure leaves a dump behind instead of running on silently. The second half reads that dump back in ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse: the Feed Reader notification, the compressed view against the classic ST22-style view, and sections such as Active Calls and Source Code Extract, the same ADT troubleshooting path debugging places alongside the ABAP Debugger for ABAP Cloud.Björn S., published 2026-09-11
ABAP + MCP: Let AI Do Real Development in Your SAP SystemABAP + MCP: Let AI Do Real Development in Your SAP Systemabap-adt-mcp is an open-source MCP server that gives an AI agent full ABAP development capability over ADT: it searches, reads, edits, activates and unit-tests objects, and runs ATC checks, on a connected S/4HANA Cloud or on-premise system, acting as the signed-in developer. It runs on abap-adt-api, the same REST client Eclipse's own ADT tooling uses, and sits beside SAP's own ADT MCP Server, shipped with ADT for VS Code and Eclipse under a different server key, and marianfoo's abap-docs, a read-only server over the ABAP Keyword Documentation and Clean ABAP. Each destination carries a policy — read-only, allowed packages, denied tables and tools — the server checks before every call, and an optional audit file logs each tool call with its outcome and policy gate.Willian_Saez, published 2026-09-03
ABAP Development Automation with ARC-1 and GitHub WorkflowsABAP Development Automation with ARC-1 and GitHub WorkflowsA sample repository puts an ABAP package into GitHub with abapGit and connects GitHub Actions to ARC-1 on BTP through an API key with no write tools, so abaplint on the diff, ABAP Unit and ATC through SAPDiagnose, label-triggered Copilot and Claude reviews, and ST22 dump triage all run as checks on a pull request. The review case is PR #14, where a SAPRead of the activated method let Claude state that a direct SELECT from MARA was new in the PR and not yet active in SAP, which a diff-only review cannot know. The test gate reads activated objects, so a team that pushes before activation needs a sandbox or a pull-and-activate step, and pulling a merged change back into SAP is named as the next step, not built.published 2026-05-12
ABAP development tools for Visual Studio Code is now available on the VS Code marketplace!ABAP development tools for Visual Studio Code is now available on the VS Code marketplace!Announces the marketplace release of ABAP development tools for Visual Studio Code, an extension that works against any ABAP system already reachable from ADT for Eclipse and is focused on RAP UI service development, so the Fiori/SAPUI5 frontend and the ABAP backend can be built in the same tool. It ships a built-in ADT MCP Server, disabled by default and switched on from the extension settings, and points readers to a documentation template for capturing ABAP-specific rules in a project's AGENTS.md file for chat agents such as Microsoft Copilot.thomasalexander_ritter, published 2026-06-01
ABAP Development Tools for VS CodeABAP Development Tools for VS CodeA Devtoberfest 2026 session on ABAP Development Tools for VS Code: where the extension sits after the ABAP Workbench and ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse, the ADT language server both editors share, and what the releases since May 2026 cover. The demo installs the extension, creates a destination, opens, creates and activates objects, runs ATC and ABAP Unit, and names the object types, domains among them, for which a developer still goes to Eclipse or SAP GUI. It also opens the extension's settings to turn on the ADT MCP Server and shows the tools a chat can call, with the object search and source code search tools listed as planned.published 2026-09-28
Accelerating SAP solution transformations with the agent-led toolchainAccelerating SAP solution transformations with the agent-led toolchainTricentis's agent-led toolchain for SAP solution transformations: AI-driven impact analysis and automated testing, which the abstract says reduce risk and speed up change delivery toward release readiness. Nothing named is an atlas entry and the toolchain is not one; the piece attaches to Testing because automated testing is the one concern the abstract names, and it states no product, system or kind of test. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Charlene Smith, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Add useful Extensions to Dev spaces in SAP Business Application StudioAdd useful Extensions to Dev spaces in SAP Business Application StudioStarts from the point capire makes — that CAP is editor-agnostic and BAS is the preconfigured option — and then does the thing that undoes preconfiguration: adds two extensions to a dev space for initialising data in a CAP application, with the uninstall procedure as well as the install. The uninstall half is what makes it worth keeping.showkath_naseem, published 2022-11-13
Agentic Loop with Joule for Developers and ADT MCP ServerAgentic Loop with Joule for Developers and ADT MCP ServerA Devtoberfest 2026 session from SAP's ABAP AI team that generates a RAP issue-tracker application by prompting a coding agent. It covers what SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities now ships as MCP tools and which assistants can reach an ABAP system's virtual filesystem, then does the setup twice: turning on the ADT MCP Server and pasting the Joule side-by-side tenant link in ABAP Development Tools for VS Code, and again in ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse, where the custom agent becomes custom instructions. The demo's subject is the guardrails around the loop — an agent.md of phases and human checkpoints, skill files cloned from a GitHub repository for naming, ATC compliance and UI annotations — run through GitHub Copilot until the generated objects are activated, unit-tested and in a transport.SAP Developers, published 2026-09-28
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.
AI-assisted SAP development with MCPAI-assisted SAP development with MCPA Devtoberfest 2026 session (UI-41) that traces AI-assisted SAP development from pasting code into a chat window to coding agents with built-in connectors, and sorts the MCP servers around SAP development into SAP's own, the community's and the hosted ones, where the agent cannot change what the server allows. Four demos follow: GitHub Copilot alone explaining an ABAP report from a Git repository, @ui5/mcp-server reading an OpenUI5 sample app and converting it to TypeScript, mcp-sap-docs grounding Terraform files for a BTP subaccount the presenter had not written before, and arc-1 with Copilot in Eclipse tracing why a title longer than 40 characters is rejected and proposing the DDIC-allowed length instead. It ends on a skill that migrates an SAP Gateway project on an ECC system to RAP on S/4HANA step by step, and on a rule Marian Zeis gives for servers written for internal use: keep them read-only, because what the agent is short of is context.published 2026-10-16
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.
An introduction to CDS Graphical Modeler for SAP Business Application StudioAn introduction to CDS Graphical Modeler for SAP Business Application StudioThe announcement of the graphical modeller, from the team that built it — what it draws, how to get a dev space that has it, and what it is for. The starting point for the two posts that follow it, and the record of when this became part of the editor rather than an idea.Xiao-fei_Song, published 2021-04-23
Avoid design time CAP server restarts when maintaining local data filesAvoid design time CAP server restarts when maintaining local data filescds watch restarting on every file change is the feature; this is the case where it is not. Editing a CSV seed file mid-edit restarts the server against half-finished data, and the post is about suppressing that without giving up the watch loop. A small friction most people work around silently rather than fix.published 2024-04-26
Avoid design time CAP server restarts when maintaining local data files
Local development changed in @sap/cds-dk 7.9.1, 2024-05-02. Affects Runnable code.
Avoiding Data Loss When Loading Initial Data with CSV Files in CAPAvoiding Data Loss When Loading Initial Data with CSV Files in CAPcds add tiny-sample gives you a CSV in db/data and it loads on deploy, which looks like a way to seed a productive application. The catch, stated plainly: change the CSV or the schema and HANA is reinitialised from the file, taking whatever users had entered with it.MioYasutake, published 2025-09-15
Before You Upgrade S/4HANA: Static UI5 Checks with MCPBefore You Upgrade S/4HANA: Static UI5 Checks with MCPA UI5 version upgrade checked against one app by pairing two MCP servers: the ui5_version_diff tool added to mcp-sap-docs, which reads a bundle from ui5-lib-diff downloaded once at setup and filters it by version range, change type, library or query text, and @ui5/mcp-server, whose get_project_info, get_version_info, run_ui5_linter and run_manifest_validation say what the app uses and what fails. Run with a ui5-versions-upgrade.md skill on the legacy app from From SEGW and Legacy UI5 to RAP with ARC-1, from SAPUI5 1.84.59 to 1.147.2, the diff range held 985 deprecations and 961 What's New entries, and the linting and manifest validation narrowed that to findings in this app, among them jQuery.sap.require, synchronous bootstrap, the sap_belize theme, sap.m.MessagePage and an old manifest _version. The checks read the source in a local checkout and never the deployed app, so the report is a first pass: a changelog entry is not proof that a workaround can be deleted, and the app still has to be run and tested.published 2026-05-20
Beyond copilots: Agentic development with SAPUI5Beyond copilots: Agentic development with SAPUI5Devtoberfest 2026 session UI-12, from the SAPUI5 team, on the year of work behind UI5/plugins-coding-agents: what a model produces for UI5 without help — outdated concepts, framework versions a decade old, generic JavaScript rules, code that does not run — and the two ways they chose to close that gap, an MCP server in September 2025 and skills packaged as plugins once agents began reading them. Three plugins are demonstrated live in Claude Code: the everyday one scaffolds an Oktoberfest tents application in about four minutes, the TypeScript conversion plugin rewrites an existing JavaScript project and reconfigures its build with the types and the transpile task, and the modernisation plugin takes a ten-year-old application through staged migrations, applying UI5 Linter's automatic fixes where they cannot break the app and the model where they can, then running the tests. @ui5/mcp-server is still the path for the parts that need a server, and the plugins are installed from the Claude Code and GitHub Copilot marketplaces rather than a UI5-hosted one.SAP Developers, published 2026-09-25
BTP CAP : Custom plugin to separate generic change log capture logicBTP CAP : Custom plugin to separate generic change log capture logicWalks through building a custom [CAP](ecosystem:cap) plugin that centralises change-log capture: on cds.once('served') it collects entities annotated @audit, then hooks srv.before('UPDATE') to read the existing record, diff it field by field against the incoming payload, and record old/new values with the user and timestamp. It also documents a cds build failure packaging the plugin's own directory into gen/srv for MTA deployment, fixed by adding it as a copyfiles build-parameter step in mta.yaml.sreehari_vpillai, published 2023-05-10
BTP CAP : How to Connect to Remote Services Locally in CAP ApplicationBTP CAP : How to Connect to Remote Services Locally in CAP ApplicationThe same problem four years earlier: a CAP application that consumes a remote service, running locally against the real thing rather than against a mock.showkath_naseem, published 2022-12-12
Building an SAP BTP Agent Architecture from Scratch: Python + CAP + HANABuilding an SAP BTP Agent Architecture from Scratch: Python + CAP + HANAA first-person build log of a Flask orchestrator on Cloud Foundry that reduces a question to keywords, searches a Node.js service's Documents entity, and passes what it finds to Claude for a grounded answer. Getting there means learning that HANA's fuzzy .search() matches one word but not a full sentence, fixed by splitting the query into terms and merging the per-term hits, and that provisioning SAP HANA Cloud hits a database-level free-tier quota rather than an HDI-container one, with a stopped instance needing to be resumed first. It also covers @sap/cds-dk needing to sit in dependencies rather than devDependencies, since Cloud Foundry's buildpack skips the latter, before cds deploy --to hana can run as part of the push.neilaspin, published 2026-07-28
Building Secure SAPUI5 Applications: Best Practices for DevelopersBuilding Secure SAPUI5 Applications: Best Practices for DevelopersA developer-facing rundown of secure coding habits for SAPUI5 apps: typed bindings and custom formatters to reject bad input before it reaches a handler, encodeHTML() instead of rendering untrusted HTML, keeping tokens and URLs out of local and session storage, and CSRF token handling on the ODataModel. It sets up linting with ESLint and an eslint-config-ui5 rule set to catch unsafe DOM access, eval calls and unused imports as part of CI, alongside the same input validation instinct: reject invalid input early rather than trust the backend to catch it.Manisha_19, published 2025-12-10
By-passing function modules in aunitsBy-passing function modules in aunitsWalks through registering a function module as a test double with CL_FUNCTION_TEST_ENVIRONMENT inside an ABAP Unit test class: class_setup names the function module to replace, an input configuration matches on the importing parameters, and an output configuration sets what the double returns before the calling class is asserted against it. The Function Test Double Framework is presented as ABAP Unit's way of testing code that calls a function module — procedural, without a class's native test-double support — without triggering the database, RFC or BAPI calls the real function module would make.Jagadish_R31, published 2026-06-01
CAP Developers - Call to Action to mitigate and Apply Solution provided in SAP Note 3747787CAP Developers - Call to Action to mitigate and Apply Solution provided in SAP Note 3747787Four malicious npm package versions published on 29 April 2026 that exfiltrate credentials and propagate into adjacent repositories, and what a CAP developer should check. A security advisory rather than a technique, and dated precisely for that reason.Yogananda, published 2026-05-01
CAP for nodejs安全的暴露接口练习CAP for nodejs安全的暴露接口练习Starting from the risk-management sample, the walkthrough adds an open ExternalAPI service beside the existing RiskService, then moves every security annotation into a separate service-auth.cds file: @requires: authenticated-user on one entity, role-scoped @restrict grants for RiskViewer and RiskManager on another. It tests the unprotected action locally with cds watch, calling it from Postman with the session cookie read out of SAP Business Application Studio's preview tab. It then deploys to BTP and reads Risks with a client-credentials OAuth token fetched from a service key of the cpapp-auth instance, after changing that entity's READ grant from RiskViewer to authenticated-user, which the post, citing capire's CDS-based Authorization page, describes as a grant for a technical user integrating systems rather than for access from a front end.ArthurYang, published 2024-12-10
CAP full-stack testing with BDD flavourCAP full-stack testing with BDD flavourIntroduces Behavior-Driven Development for CAP applications: specifications written in Gherkin against a running app, validated by Cucumber, using cds-cucumber's ready-made step definitions for SAP Fiori elements and OData screens. The library handles service lifecycle — starting the app, assigning a port, driving the browser and authenticating a named user — and its OData steps know the service's entities and fields from the CDS model itself, so a scenario can open a list report, search it and assert row counts without hand-written glue code.published 2023-10-10
CAP Heaven? Not Yet — But You Can See It from HereCAP Heaven? Not Yet — But You Can See It from HereAn assessment from someone with Java, Azure and AWS behind them as well as ABAP and Fiori, which is a rarer vantage point than it sounds. The title is the verdict.published 2026-02-07
CAP in the age of AI #7 - vector embeddings wrap-upCAP in the age of AI #7 - vector embeddings wrap-upThe same embeddings model taken from SQLite to SAP HANA Cloud, then handed to an agent. Locally it is @cap-js/ai that adds the vector functions SQLite lacks and downloads an all-MiniLM L6v2 ONNX model on first start; on HANA natural language processing has to be switched on, the model name is a mandatory argument, the vectors it returns are 768 dimensions, and dimensions must match on both sides of a comparison. HANA itself can be given SAP AI Core as a remote source for other embedding models, which a CDS.ql expression has to inject because the postfix notation only takes what the CDS model holds, and the hour ends with a search function over cosine similarity exposed over @cap-js/mcp, so an agent asked about low output from solar panels calls semantic search instead of writing the query itself.published 2026-10-16
CAP Initializr: Generate SAP CAP Projects in SecondsCAP Initializr: Generate SAP CAP Projects in SecondsA hosted project generator for CAP in the shape of Spring Initializr — pick the structure, dependencies and configuration in a browser and download the result, rather than running cds init and then wiring the facets by hand. The post is an MVP announcement asking for feedback, and the tool lives at a Cloud Foundry trial URL rather than on npm, so it is a direction being tested in public rather than something to depend on.Saptarshi017, published 2026-03-23
CAP is important because it's not importantCAP is important because it's not importantAn essay rather than a technique: what CAP actually is, what it gives you, and the case for treating it as foundational precisely because it is not the interesting part of an application. Written in 2019, when that argument still had to be made, and the title is the argument. Also recorded as a Tech Aloud podcast episode and a CodeTalk, both linked from the post.published 2019-11-06
CAP Now Supports ReactJS - With working demo + UI5 Web componentsCAP Now Supports ReactJS - With working demo + UI5 Web componentsA walkthrough of scaffolding a React front end onto a CAP Bookshop project with cds add react --into <app>, wiring UI5 Web Components for React to the generated OData service, then adding further facets one command at a time — cds add app-frontend, cds add ias or cds add xsuaa, and cds add hana — before cds up deploys the result with IAS authentication and a HANA Cloud database. Each command expands the project by one facet rather than scaffolding everything up front, the grow-as-you-go shape generators describes.published 2026-06-09
CAP PostgreSql setup local debugging using Docker - Part 2CAP PostgreSql setup local debugging using Docker - Part 2PostgreSQL in a container so the local loop matches the deployed one — the thing SQLite quietly stops you doing. Short, and it assumes the project from part one already runs.ramonlee5, published 2023-11-22
CAP PostgreSql setup local debugging using Docker - Part 2
Database connectors has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects A recipe.
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.
CAP with Local App Previews – Tips for Smooth DevelopmentCAP with Local App Previews – Tips for Smooth DevelopmentUI5's virtual endpoints remove the sandbox files a local preview used to need, and this is what that means for a CAP project specifically. Tips from trying it rather than an announcement of it.MioYasutake, published 2025-08-16
CAP, RAP, or Both: Stop Hiding Behind 'It Depends'CAP, RAP, or Both: Stop Hiding Behind 'It Depends'Opens by refusing the answer every other post on this gives — "both are complementary, choose based on context" — and then commits to a framework, including the parts usually left out: the staffing bias behind the decision, and what to do about a landscape with thousands of Z-objects. Argument, not tutorial.published 2026-04-09
CAP: Consume External Service - Part 1CAP: Consume External Service - Part 1Builds a CAP Node.js service from scratch that consumes the public NorthWind OData V4 service: cds import turns its EDMX metadata into a CSN model under srv/external, and a CatalogService projects Products from it with a custom READ handler that runs the request through cds.connect.to('NorthWind'). Shows the same projection working two ways — against a CSV mocked under srv/external/data with the <service>-<entity>.csv naming the framework expects, then against the real service once credentials.url is added to the CAP configuration and @sap-cloud-sdk/http-client is installed — and defers routing that connection through the Cloud Foundry Destinations service to the next post in the series.published 2020-05-26
CAP: The Road Ahead - Simplicity in an AI EraCAP: The Road Ahead - Simplicity in an AI EraDevtoberfest 2026 session CAP10, from the head of SAP's Cloud Application Programming Model: forty minutes of live building rather than slides, on the argument that the cheapest code in an AI project is code nobody has to generate. Claude Code builds an invoice-matching workspace from cds init onwards, and each step is one the framework answers rather than the agent: a 42-line domain model that @sap/cds serves as OData and Fiori elements with a status flow, data privacy and change-tracking annotations that produce audit log entries in the console and would reach the SAP Audit Log service once deployed, an imported S/4HANA supplier data product, and semantic matching from a local embedding model after @cap-js/ai is added. The last three steps are annotations: @mcp beside @odata turns the service into an MCP server that a second Claude session queries through @cap-js/mcp, an agent annotation adds the A2A protocol with an agent card and an audit log entry for the agent task, and a skill file gives the agent the matching policy.SAP Developers, published 2026-09-25
CAP: Unit Testing using Mocha and ChaiCAP: Unit Testing using Mocha and ChaiUnit tests added to an existing CAP service rather than written alongside a new one, which is the harder and more common case. Mocha and Chai wired up by hand, from a time before cds.test was the obvious answer.jhodel18, published 2020-05-31
CAP: Unit Testing using Mocha and Chai
Testing has changed 3 times since this was published, most recently in @cap-js/cds-test 1.0.0, 2026-04-23. Affects Runnable code.
CAPM Basics - Part 2CAPM Basics - Part 2Walks through deploying a CAP application to SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry Runtime: provisioning a SAP HANA Cloud instance and HDI container, then running cds add hana and cds add xsuaa --for production, cds build --production, and an MTA build and deploy. Tests the deployed service in Postman with an OAuth 2.0 client credentials token from the XSUAA binding (SAP Authorization and Trust Management service), explicitly leaving out any role templates or scopes.archisman92, published 2025-02-28
CAPM Basics - Part 4CAPM Basics - Part 4Part 4 of a CAPM Basics series binds the deployed XSUAA and SAP HANA Cloud service instances with cds bind and runs the project against them from a laptop via cds watch --profile hybrid, the hybrid-testing loop @sap/cds-dk provides. It then restricts the service with @restrict (READ granted to a Viewer role, full access to Admin) and adds OData Capabilities restrictions plus @odata.draft.enabled so a Fiori elements client renders create, update and delete without UI code. It closes by adding a UI module with the SAP Fiori Generator, wiring an approuter via cds add approuter to forward the auth token, and updating the SAP Authorization and Trust Management service instance with the generated redirect URI before redeploying.archisman92, published 2025-05-10
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
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.
cf-create-app: Create End-to-End apps and deploy to Cloud Foundry in minutescf-create-app: Create End-to-End apps and deploy to Cloud Foundry in minutesA generator from 2020 that goes further than scaffolding — an end-to-end application created and deployed to Cloud Foundry in one run. Predates most of what cds add now does.former_member604013, published 2020-07-29
cf-create-app: Create End-to-End apps and deploy to Cloud Foundry in minutes
Generators has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @sap/cds-dk 10.0.3, 2026-07-02. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Claude ported ABAP functions to new APIClaude ported ABAP functions to new APIA first-person account of using Claude Code, driven through the sapcli command line, to install and repair RFC function modules that let a CI pipeline control abapGit and gCTS remotely, rather than treating git as a way to read ABAP source. Instead of trusting a local checkout, Claude read the abapGit login manager class and queried the target system's own type catalogue through sapcli, then used what it found to update a renamed API method and swap a TABLES parameter's structure for the table type BAPIRET2_T.jakub_filak, published 2026-03-16
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
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
Create your first CAP pluginCreate your first CAP pluginA step-by-step guide to the cds-plugin.js extension point: scaffold a package, add an index.cds for shared model artifacts, and test it locally against a throwaway CAP project before publishing to npm, with a separate section on building the same plugin in TypeScript and compiling it with tsc. Points to the author's own cds-plugin-handlers and ui5-cap-serverside-rendering-plugin as worked examples.published 2024-12-09
Creating a Hybrid CAP (Node.js) Profile with PostgreSQL on BTP from Business Application StudioCreating a Hybrid CAP (Node.js) Profile with PostgreSQL on BTP from Business Application StudioHybrid testing is documented for HANA; this is the same profile against a PostgreSQL instance on BTP, driven from a BAS dev space rather than a laptop. Proposed under editor support because of where it runs, but the subject is the binding: what cds bind writes, and what has to be true of the service instance and the tunnel for a local process to reach it.valentincadart, published 2025-10-02
Creating a Hybrid CAP (Node.js) Profile with PostgreSQL on BTP from Business Application Studio
Database connectors changed in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects Runnable code.
Creating an ARC-1 BTP Diagram with Codex and a draw.io SkillCreating an ARC-1 BTP Diagram with Codex and a draw.io SkillThe sap-architecture skill from marianfoo/btp-drawio-skill draws architecture diagrams as editable draw.io files in SAP Architecture Center style by copying the closest of 71 bundled SAP reference templates, or a built-in fallback layout, then validating, scoring and rendering the result for the model to inspect; it takes ideas from Wouter Lemaire's btp-solution-diagram-generator and from claude-drawio-btp-diagram. Codex ran it on an L2 diagram of ARC-1 on BTP Cloud Foundry, reached from VS Code over MCP and passing through XSUAA, Destination, Connectivity and Cloud Connector to an on-premise ABAP system, and the first pass validated and scored 100 while labelling the flows HTTPS and OData/REST instead of MCP and ADT REST. The post draws its boundary from that run: the checks read the file's visual structure and cannot tell whether the architecture is right, and a diagram with no close template still needs manual draw.io work.published 2026-07-09
Creating new services using the CDS Graphical Modeler for SAP Business Application StudioCreating new services using the CDS Graphical Modeler for SAP Business Application StudioThe worked half of the introduction, published the same day: a service defined by drawing rather than by typing, projections included. Assumes the setup from the introduction and does not repeat it, so the two are one piece split in two.Xiao-fei_Song, published 2021-04-23
Creating structured types, enums and named aspects using the CDS Graphical ModelerCreating structured types, enums and named aspects using the CDS Graphical ModelerThe modelling constructs that are awkward to draw — structured types, enums, named aspects — done in the graphical modeller rather than in CDL.Xiao-fei_Song, published 2021-05-26
debug a CAP app with UI5 TypeScript UI component with VS Codedebug a CAP app with UI5 TypeScript UI component with VS CodeDebugging both runtimes at once — the CAP server and a UI5 component written in TypeScript, the latter stepped through in its own sources rather than in the transpiled output. Written when TypeScript for UI5 had just become possible, and the combination it sets up is the one CAP's app folder invites.published 2021-11-16
Debugging in ABAP Development Tool (Part 1)Debugging in ABAP Development Tool (Part 1)A walkthrough of the ABAP Debugger inside ABAP Development Tools: setting a toggle (hard) breakpoint versus a soft breakpoint that only fires once a session is already active, running up to four debugging sessions on the same program, reading the call stack, and debugging an update function module. It also covers watchpoints with their recent and current values, conditional and user-specific breakpoints, activating and deleting breakpoints, and adding variables such as SY-INDEX to the variables tab.M_Sumaiya_Khatoon, published 2025-09-02
Declarative Programming in CAP: Less Code, More ValueDeclarative Programming in CAP: Less Code, More ValueAn argument for annotations over handlers, made from the case where it is most obvious: repetitive validation logic that could be declared instead of written. Describes what you want rather than how to get it, and lets the runtime decide the how.published 2026-02-05
Deploying a CAP app with Fiori app standalone (HTML5 Repo Host)Deploying a CAP app with Fiori app standalone (HTML5 Repo Host)A step-by-step alternative to deploying a CAP app's Fiori frontend through SAP Workzone or Launchpad: exposing it to the SAP HTML5 Application Repository service for SAP BTP instead of serving it straight from @sap/approuter, for zero-downtime content updates, versioning and permissions. It builds a sample with @sap/cds-dk's cds add hana,html5-repo,approuter,mta and cds add xsuaa --for production, generates the Fiori app through Business Application Studio's module wizard, then wires the app router's xs-app.json routes, the mta.yaml service binding and SAP Authorization and Trust Management service before building with mbt and deploying to SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry Runtime.Christopher_Ketzler, published 2025-04-22
Develop CAP Project with Lazyvim in DockerDevelop CAP Project with Lazyvim in DockerA Docker image running Lazyvim with language server support for CDS, TypeScript and JSON, so a CAP project can be developed with an editing experience comparable to VS Code without leaving the keyboard. Narrow by intent, and the useful general point underneath it is that CAP's editor support reaches anything that speaks LSP.published 2024-03-28
Develop SAP CAP apps inside a VS Code Docker ContainerDevelop SAP CAP apps inside a VS Code Docker ContainerA VS Code dev container configuration with everything a CAP project needs already in it, published as a repository rather than as instructions. The 2020 half of a pair whose other half, four years later, does the same for Lazyvim — the same author solving the same problem twice as his editor changed.published 2020-02-20
Develop SAP CAP apps inside a VS Code Docker Container
Local development has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @sap/cds-dk 7.9.1, 2024-05-02. Affects Runnable code.
Developing CAP applications in SAP Business Application StudioDeveloping CAP applications in SAP Business Application StudioThe overview written at the point BAS replaced Web IDE, and it is structured as a comparison — each step of building a CAP application, with the difference from the Web IDE experience called out beside it. Useful now mostly for what it records: which parts of CAP development the editor took over, and when.liat_b, published 2020-07-06
Diagrams related to OData entities (CAP & ECC)Diagrams related to OData entities (CAP & ECC)Builds a small CAP service that uses the framework's reflection API to read an OData entity's elements and associations and emits PlantUML diagram source for it, as a hand-rolled alternative to the OpenAPI/Yuml-based diagram export capire documents. The author contrasts the PlantUML result with the OpenAPI/Yuml diagram, calling it more detailed and giving more control over orientation, colors and links. Part 1 of a two-part series; part 2 covers the same idea for ECC/ABAP.Pierre_Godart, published 2022-09-06
Don't "let it crash", is this the new CAP guideline?Don't "let it crash", is this the new CAP guideline?Dinu traces a change in error handling in CAP's Node.js runtime: @sap/cds@8.2.0 adds a cds.server.shutdown_on_uncaught_errors config flag, defaulting to true, but invoking an operation with an undefined variable no longer takes the server down, with or without the flag, where the same code crashed it on cds@6 and cds@7, and the author notes the old behaviour was already missing in cds@8.1. It still crashes with features.odata_new_adapter turned off to use the old OData parser, so it is the new OData adapter, like the REST adapter before it, that answers an uncaught error with a 500 instead of taking the process down.Dinu, published 2024-09-06
Don't Wait for SAP: Unlocking MCP Servers in BAS Right NowDon't Wait for SAP: Unlocking MCP Servers in BAS Right NowA workaround post with a grievance behind it: MCP servers were promoted heavily at SAP TechEd, most IDEs support them, and Business Application Studio limits you to Joule. This is how to run them there anyway. Worth reading as evidence of where the tooling gap sits rather than only for the recipe, which by nature has a shelf life.published 2025-11-27
DRY CAP – Making Sustainable Solutions Through PluginsDRY CAP – Making Sustainable Solutions Through PluginsA Devtoberfest 2026 building-apps session on packaging the things you would otherwise write twice, from in-house API clients and shared data models to validation logic, as a CAP plugin. The presenter builds one live: a cds-plugin.js next to package.json is what makes CAP notice the plugin at all, an index.cds carries a reusable user context and service that the consuming application projects into its own and protects there, and the plugin registers an Express middleware at a chosen step of the bootstrap to put user properties on the request. A feature-flagging plugin his team already uses closes it, and the whole walkthrough is the edge to Plugin authoring.SAP Developers, published 2026-10-02
Enhancing Unit Testing in SAP CAP Java Applications with GitHub CopilotEnhancing Unit Testing in SAP CAP Java Applications with GitHub CopilotBuilt on SAP's own CAP Java unit-testing guide, and the question is narrow: how much of that does an assistant actually write for you. The author's own getting-started post is the one to read first.Anjali_Pathak, published 2025-09-04
Establishing connectivity between a local CAP runtime and on-premise systemsEstablishing connectivity between a local CAP runtime and on-premise systemsReaching S/4HANA, an on-premise HANA or any HTTP service from a CAP process running on your laptop — the case where the connectivity proxy the platform provides is not there and the tunnel has to be arranged.vLeonkev, published 2025-10-15
Everything new: Try out the latest features in CAPEverything new: Try out the latest features in CAPCAP (@sap/cds) gains the features this hands-on session works through: declarative constraints, which is the input validation concern, status flows as status transition flows, a cds REPL, extensibility through @sap/cds-oyster, and HCQL, which SAP's abstract calls CAP's native query-over-HTTP protocol, after an opening stretch of AI-driven app development. The abstract names the features and stops there; what each one does is not described. A TechEd 2026 hands-on session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Daniel Hutzel, Daniel Schlachter, Marc Huber and Tim Back, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Explore SAP Fiori elements for ABAP developersExplore SAP Fiori elements for ABAP developersSAP Fiori elements for an ABAP developer who now builds the UI as well as the RAP business object behind it, the transactional model of ABAP Cloud, in SAP Business Application Studio; the abstract calls the UI side new territory for that developer, and a Fiori elements app is rendered from the service's Fiori annotations rather than hand-written UI code. The abstract names the tool and the stack and does not say which floorplan or annotations are shown. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Björn Schulz, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Explore version control and automation with GitHub in Cloud IntegrationExplore version control and automation with GitHub in Cloud IntegrationGitHub access set up in Cloud Integration: integration flows committed and versioned from Cloud Integration's own tools, several people working on the same artifacts, and a commit that triggers a CI/CD pipeline. The abstract states what the GitHub connection does and stops before the branch model, the pipeline's steps or which pipeline service runs them. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Marco Ertel, Morten Wittrock, Patrick Kelleher, Shivani Borkar and Tobin Sydneysmith, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Exploring the TypeScript Ecosystem with @cap-js/cds-typer, cds-ts, and node-tsExploring the TypeScript Ecosystem with @cap-js/cds-typer, cds-ts, and node-tsPart one of two: a bookshop project built in TypeScript from cds init, with cds-typer added as a development dependency and the surrounding tools — cds-ts and node-ts — put in place so the project runs locally. A setup walkthrough rather than an argument about typing, and it stops at the point where the application works on a laptop; deployment is part two.satya-dev, published 2024-07-08
Exploring the TypeScript Ecosystem with @cap-js/cds-typer, cds-ts, and node-ts
@cap-js/cds-typer has been through 18 major lines since this was published, most recently 0.39 (2026-05), 0.40 (2026-06), 0.41 (2026-08). Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Exploring the TypeScript Ecosystem with @cap-js/cds-typer, cds-ts, and node-ts Part - 2Exploring the TypeScript Ecosystem with @cap-js/cds-typer, cds-ts, and node-ts Part - 2Part two takes the TypeScript project from part one to Cloud Foundry: cds add mta, then the parts of the generated descriptor the author singles out as needing attention for a TypeScript build rather than a JavaScript one. The pair together is the whole path — typed model locally, then deployed — which is where a typing walkthrough usually stops short.satya-dev, published 2024-07-19
Exploring the TypeScript Ecosystem with @cap-js/cds-typer, cds-ts, and node-ts Part - 2
@cap-js/cds-typer has been through 17 major lines since this was published, most recently 0.39 (2026-05), 0.40 (2026-06), 0.41 (2026-08). Affects Runnable code.
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.
First Java Cap ApplicationFirst Java Cap ApplicationA step-by-step walkthrough of a first CAP Java project: com.sap.cds:cds-services-archetype scaffolds the initial Maven project, and the domain model is then rewritten in the db folder with entities, the cuid and managed aspects, associations, compositions and a CodeList, so a hand-coded event handler serving a single entity gives way to a service that CAP's generic persistence handling serves without custom code. It deploys that model to SQLite for local development — cds deploy --to sqlite, then a Spring profile pointing at the generated database file — and ends by adding an index.cds so the model and service can be published as a reusable npm module.bruce_wang3, published 2020-12-08
From SEGW and Legacy UI5 to RAP with ARC-1From SEGW and Legacy UI5 to RAP with ARC-1Three ARC-1 skills, run in Cursor with Composer-2 against a deliberately rough demo on an S/4HANA 2023 trial system, turn the SEGW service ZDEMO_MIG_PROJECTS_SRV into a managed, draft-enabled RAP business object published as OData V4, replace its ApproveProject function import and its direct UPDATE ... COMMIT WORK with the action approve_project written in EML in local mode, and rebuild the freestyle UI5 JavaScript app once in UI5 TypeScript and once as a Fiori elements list report and object page driven by metadata extensions. What the published transcripts add is how the agent got there: it found the generated MPC class names and the custom logic in DPC_EXT only by reading the system, the skills made it print the extracted model and stop for confirmation before writing, and @ui5/mcp-server, mcp-sap-docs and @sap-ux/fiori-mcp-server each had their own job beside it. The demo is small on purpose, and the post says a productive SEGW service that calls BAPIs, carries custom authorisation logic or supports deep inserts is not solved with one prompt.published 2026-05-11
From SEGW and Legacy UI5 to RAP with ARC-1
@sap-ux/fiori-mcp-server has been through 2 major lines since this was published: 0.7 (2026-05), 1 (2026-05). 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.
Fullstack CAP Application with HANA Cloud (Decoupled Architecture) [Part-1]Fullstack CAP Application with HANA Cloud (Decoupled Architecture) [Part-1]The first of six, and it does the thing the later parts depend on: build the Incident Management application against SQLite on a laptop, with no cloud database in sight. The series is called decoupled because the front end and the back end are deployed separately, and this part is entirely the back end.sanjucs, published 2026-05-06
Fullstack CAP Application with HANA Cloud (Decoupled Architecture) [Part-1]
Database connectors changed in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
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
Get familiar with your first CAPM project using CDS graphic modelerGet familiar with your first CAPM project using CDS graphic modelerThe modeller as an entry point rather than an aid — a first CAPM project built by drawing it, for the developer who has not yet internalised CDL, annotations and metadata.Jyoti_ranjan, published 2025-07-05
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
Getting started with cds.ql in NodeJS for CAP - 101 on how to query dataGetting started with cds.ql in NodeJS for CAP - 101 on how to query dataWalks through cds.ql, the query API @sap/cds gives a Node.js CAP service's custom handlers, with worked SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE and INSERT examples against a sample schema — filters, AND/OR conditions, column projections, ordering, limiting, grouping and joining two entities through a schema view. An added correction notes that cds.tx(req) is no longer needed to run a query in newer CAP versions, contradicting the post's own original guidance.published 2022-06-21
Getting Started with Unit Testing in SAP CAP Java ApplicationsGetting Started with Unit Testing in SAP CAP Java ApplicationsThe plain introduction: what the CAP Java framework gives you to test against, and how to start. Prerequisite to the same author's Copilot post.Anjali_Pathak, published 2025-07-28
Getting Started with Unit Testing in SAP CAP Java Applications
Testing changed in @cap-js/cds-test 1.0.0, 2026-04-23. Affects Runnable code.
Give Your AI Agent Some Tools: Introducing the UI5 MCP ServerGive Your AI Agent Some Tools: Introducing the UI5 MCP ServerAnnounces @ui5/mcp-server, SAP's open-source MCP server for UI5 development, and walks through its initial six tools. get_project_info, get_api_reference and run_ui5_linter (which applies UI5 linter fixes) read the project's own version, manifest and code rather than an LLM's training data, which is what agent access to your code explains. create_ui5_app scaffolds a new JavaScript or TypeScript project, standalone or inside an existing CAP application, from templates with pre-configured OData model setups, which is generators.published 2025-09-03
HANA SQL NOTEBOOKS in SAP BUILD / Business Application Studio(BAS) / Visual Studio CodeHANA SQL NOTEBOOKS in SAP BUILD / Business Application Studio(BAS) / Visual Studio CodeWalks through SAP HANA SQL Notebooks, a .notebook file opened inside a dev space of SAP Business Application Studio (also reached from SAP Build and Visual Studio Code), that mixes CODE and MARKDOWN blocks and needs the project's mta and hana facets added first with cds add. A CODE block's connection-management mode uses a '#' syntax to list, select and show the active SAP HANA connection, drawn from the HANA Database Explorer's saved connections or the project's own Cloud Foundry connection, so any valid SQL statement can then run against the project's HDI container.published 2025-01-01
Handling CSV Data Deployment in CAP HDI Without Data LossHandling CSV Data Deployment in CAP HDI Without Data LossThe same trap from the HDI side: .hdbtabledata hands the container full ownership of the data, so the next deployment overwrites the table from the file. Two independent posts three months apart on the same sharp edge, which is a fair signal about how sharp it is.Sekar_Somasundaram, published 2025-06-04
Hello React & Vue : SAP CAP’s New UI Layer is Here!Hello React & Vue : SAP CAP’s New UI Layer is Here!CAP gaining a UI layer for React and Vue, which changes the default assumption that the front end is UI5. Short, and the significance is larger than the length.Yogananda, published 2026-06-25
How to build reusable plugin components for CAP Java applicationsHow to build reusable plugin components for CAP Java applicationsA companion to Daniel Schlachter's Reusable components for CAP with cds-plugin, showing the same mechanism on CAP Java: a plugin ships as its own Maven artifact with an event handler and a CdsRuntimeConfiguration implementation, registered through the JDK's ServiceLoader rather than any CAP-specific wiring. The walkthrough builds a cds-emoji-plugin-java jar that decorates @emoji-annotated fields on read, installs it to the local Maven repository, and adds it as a runtime dependency to a cds init --add java bookshop application. It argues the plugin mechanism was not new to CAP Java, just previously undocumented.robinjayasinghe, published 2023-05-16
How to Call a Remote OData API from Your Local CAP Java ProjectHow to Call a Remote OData API from Your Local CAP Java ProjectThe Business Accelerator Hub sandbox called from a CAP Java project on a laptop, with a concrete finish line — a localhost URL that returns business partners. Everything needed to get there is listed, Maven and JDK versions included.Umezuki, published 2025-08-11
How to consume UI5 custom libraries in BAS or VS CodeHow to consume UI5 custom libraries in BAS or VS CodeConsuming a custom UI5 library from a UI5 application locally, using yarn workspaces to resolve the dependency instead of adjusting the project before every deploy. The post is honest about its own history: the author had asked the question on SAP Community, found a workaround that needed a pre-deploy edit, and only later learned the workspace approach that removes it. Generator-based setup throughout, and 2021-vintage — yarn workspaces, generator-ui5-library and generator-easy-ui5.published 2021-04-06
How to extend ABAP Test Cockpit on SAP BTP for custom use casesHow to extend ABAP Test Cockpit on SAP BTP for custom use casesWalks through the released, C1-contract APIs and CDS views for extending ABAP Test Cockpit on SAP BTP: the single entry point CL_SATC_API=>CREATE_API_FACTORY, reading a run's findings and headers through SATC_API_FINDINGS and SATC_API_RESULT_HEADERS, starting synchronous local ATC runs for a transport, approving or rejecting exemptions programmatically, configuring approver responsibility areas without a UI, and implementing a custom check through IF_CI_ATC_CHECK. Code snippets show each API in use, including the CDS views that join ATC results to the Custom Code Migration app's own findings.OlgaDolinskaja, published 2026-05-20
How to fix npm error notarget @sap/hdi-deploy when you create a CAP app in BASHow to fix npm error notarget @sap/hdi-deploy when you create a CAP app in BASA specific npm failure when creating a CAP app from a template, and the post now opens with its own July 2025 update saying the version has been published so this instance is gone. It stays useful because the cause — a dependency pointing at a version nobody published yet — recurs, and the unblocking steps are general.Ryota_Ito, published 2025-07-28
How to Restrict CRUD Operations in SAP CAPM Using @Capabilities, @readonly and Test APIs with .httpHow to Restrict CRUD Operations in SAP CAPM Using @Capabilities, @readonly and Test APIs with .httpEntities are exposed with full CRUD by default, and this is how to take operations away again — @Capabilities for Insert, Update and Delete individually, @readonly for the blunt version. Tested with .http files rather than a UI, which keeps the check on the service.DeepaRagho, published 2026-05-22
How to Scan Custom ABAP for Security Issues in Eclipse (Step-by-Step)How to Scan Custom ABAP for Security Issues in Eclipse (Step-by-Step)Written by someone who works on the tool, this is a setup walkthrough for the RedRays ABAP Scanner Eclipse plugin: get a demo API key, install the plugin via an update site, point it at a backend, and scan an ABAP object from the Project Explorer. Findings for SQL/ADBC injection, OS command execution, path traversal, missing AUTHORITY-CHECK and similar are grouped by severity with a CVSS score and an automated exploitability check, and a REST API extends the same scan to a CI/CD allow/block gate on a transport.vahagn, published 2026-07-03
How to use Cloud SDK for AI in an existing CAP NodeJS Project in CommonJSHow to use Cloud SDK for AI in an existing CAP NodeJS Project in CommonJSA dependency that is ESM-only inside a project that is CommonJS, and the author's judgement that converting the project was too risky. What follows is the esbuild workaround, which is the honest answer when the ecosystem has moved and your codebase has not.Jacky_Liu1, published 2025-08-01
How to Use NPM Modules Like crypto-js in SAPUI5 Using UI5 Tooling ModulesHow to Use NPM Modules Like crypto-js in SAPUI5 Using UI5 Tooling ModulesWalks through adding ui5-tooling-modules to a SAPUI5 project on UI5 Tooling v3: installing the npm package crypto-js alongside it, then wiring a ui5-tooling-modules-task builder task and a ui5-tooling-modules-middleware dev-server middleware into ui5.yaml so the UI5 module loader can resolve it. A controller then loads crypto-js/sha256 through sap.ui.define and calls it like any other AMD dependency, with the stated limit that the pattern works only inside a controller or other AMD-style module, not through a top-level import or require().DakshKumarSingh, published 2025-09-04
How we could potentially have nestjs as runtime for SAP CAPHow we could potentially have nestjs as runtime for SAP CAPA proof-of-concept that swaps @sap/cds's ApplicationService and ODataAdapter dispatch for NestJS controllers, providers and interceptors, built by the author to learn NestJS rather than to ship a runtime. It works through CAP's run-dispatch-handle loop and AsyncLocalStorage-based transaction boundaries in detail before mapping them onto NestJS dependency injection and interceptors — one community answer to the controller-service-repository layering question core TypeScript support leaves open. The author's own conclusion is that the result reimplements CAP Java in Node.js, and they do not plan to take it further.alex_myakinkii, published 2024-09-19
Hybrid testing using PostgreSQL on SAP BTP, hyperscaler optionHybrid testing using PostgreSQL on SAP BTP, hyperscaler optionA short note rather than a guide — the author says they came across the feature reading someone else's post on PostgreSQL with Kyma. Hybrid testing against a real PostgreSQL instance, which until then people assumed meant HANA.martinfrick, published 2023-08-08
Importing @sap/cds common.cds to your CAP project using the CDS Graphical ModelerImporting @sap/cds common.cds to your CAP project using the CDS Graphical ModelerPulling the common aspects and code lists from @sap/cds into a model through the modeller, so the reuse types appear in the diagram rather than only in the file.Xiao-fei_Song, published 2021-05-06
Importing an external data model using CDS Graphical Modeler for Visual Studio CodeImporting an external data model using CDS Graphical Modeler for Visual Studio CodeWalks through the CDS Graphical Modeler for Visual Studio Code: creating a "Customers" entity, importing an external OData model from an edmx file into the CDS model, and drawing a managed association from the new entity to an entity from the imported namespace. The import happens through the modeler's GUI rather than the cds import command, and the imported edmx becomes a CDS file the modeler can open directly.Xiao-fei_Song, published 2022-05-09
Importing external edmx files to your CAP project using the CDS Graphical ModelerImporting external edmx files to your CAP project using the CDS Graphical ModelerAn EDMX downloaded from the API hub — API_BUSINESS_PARTNER in the example — imported into the CDS model and its entities exposed as projections, done through the graphical modeller rather than cds import. Barely a page long.Xiao-fei_Song, published 2021-05-19
Integration Tests in a Cloud Foundry Java App using SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelIntegration Tests in a Cloud Foundry Java App using SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelIntegration rather than unit tests, and from 2020 — the earliest testing entry here, and a reminder of what had to be assembled by hand before the framework had an answer.former_member428487, published 2020-02-23
Integration Tests in a Cloud Foundry Java App using SAP Cloud Application Programming Model
Testing has changed 3 times since this was published, most recently in @cap-js/cds-test 1.0.0, 2026-04-23. Affects Runnable code.
Intelligent App Development at Scale: SAP Fiori Elements + ABAP Development Tools for VS CodeIntelligent App Development at Scale: SAP Fiori Elements + ABAP Development Tools for VS CodeA Devtoberfest 2026 session (UI-33) that builds a RAP service and the SAP Fiori elements app over it from one VS Code workspace, with a coding agent driving two of SAP's MCP servers. The ABAP Development Tools for VS Code edges hold on the demo itself: its virtual file system keeps the ABAP package beside the Fiori project, the ADT MCP Server inside it creates, changes and activates the ABAP objects, and a version not yet released publishes the service binding from the agent instead of by hand. The @sap-ux/fiori-mcp-server edge covers its generators and the three-step workflow it uses for changes — list the functionality available for the application, ask for its JSON schema, then execute it — and the agent guidance edge rests on the skills the Fiori team publishes beside it, on the session's account of what a skill adds that a server does not, and on the analytical chart demo where a skill orchestrates both servers in one task.SAP Developers, published 2026-10-09
Introducing eslint-plugin-better-cap-config an ESLint plugin to improve CAP configurationIntroducing eslint-plugin-better-cap-config an ESLint plugin to improve CAP configurationThe author's own announcement, and precise about scope: today it catches deprecated key/value entries in CAP's JSON configuration, and the ambition is that it grows into best practices, suggestions and autofixes the way any ESLint plugin does. The implementation detail worth knowing is that it uses modern ESLint's JSON language support rather than a generic parser, which is what makes linting a configuration file rather than source code work at all.published 2025-09-08
ISO content for common CAP typesISO content for common CAP typesThe npm package that supplies ISO-standard content — countries, languages, currencies, timezones — for CAP's common types, and how it works underneath. The author flags the length and the reason for it up front, having followed the mechanism further than the question required, which is what makes it worth reading rather than a package announcement.published 2024-03-14
ISO content for common CAP types
Seed data changed in @sap/cds-dk 7.9.1, 2024-05-02. Affects Runnable code.
Joule Studioがリリースされたので早速CAPアプリを自然言語で操作するカスタムスキルを構築してみたJoule Studioがリリースされたので早速CAPアプリを自然言語で操作するカスタムスキルを構築してみたA walkthrough of building a custom Joule Studio skill on a CAP bookshop app: cds add sample and cds add mta scaffold the project and its deployment descriptor, cds compile srv/ --to xsuaa generates the role template behind the @requires: 'admin' check on AdminService from the SAP Authorization and Trust Management service (XSUAA), and mbt build packages the app for deployment to the SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry Runtime. The skill reaches the deployed OData API through the SAP Destination service, configured with the OAuth2 Client Credentials grant using the client ID, secret and token endpoint from the app's XSUAA service key, so Joule answers a natural-language question about a book by its ID.takayuki_tanaka, published 2025-07-30
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
Migrate your code with UI5 linter – Autofix has landedMigrate your code with UI5 linter – Autofix has landedUI5 linter v1.12.0 adds an initial autofix, reached with ui5lint --fix, and the post walks through it end to end: the tool first reports a deprecated global reference (sap.ui.model.json.JSONModel), then the fix rewrites it into the equivalent module import and local variable. This first version only handles that one class of deprecation — replacing deprecated globals with imports — with more fix types left for later releases tracked on the tool's GitHub roadmap.published 2025-03-19
Migrating Your CAP Applications from SAP Web IDE to SAP Business Application StudioMigrating Your CAP Applications from SAP Web IDE to SAP Business Application StudioA migration checklist, and a reminder of how much of a CAP project used to be editor-specific: Web IDE configuration files to delete, a build to move to the Cloud MTA Build Tool, a CAP Java version to raise. Historical — Web IDE is gone — but it is the clearest list of what the tooling boundary used to include.liat_b, published 2020-07-09
Migrating Your CAP Applications from SAP Web IDE to SAP Business Application Studio
Editor support changed in @sap/cds-dk 8.8.0, 2025-03-04. Affects A recipe.
Multi-Origin Service Testing and Troubleshooting in SAP GatewayMulti-Origin Service Testing and Troubleshooting in SAP GatewayWalks through testing a multi-origin OData service in SAP Gateway by passing the $system parameter against a System Alias defined in /IWFND/MAINT_SERVICE, verified with the SAP Gateway Client (/IWFND/GW_CLIENT) and from outside the system with a browser or Postman. Covers three recurring failures — an ignored $system, a 500 from an unconfigured RFC destination or inactive backend service, and a 403 from a missing backend authorization — and how to confirm which alias and backend a request actually hit with /IWFND/TRACES.Ravikumar_H1, published 2025-08-19
My CAP Projects ToolboxMy CAP Projects ToolboxA working inventory of daily CAP tooling: scaffolding a project with cds init and growing it facet by facet through cds add (TypeScript, seed data, an .http test file, a handler stub), then running it with cds watch and setting a breakpoint in a custom handler from SAP Business Application Studio's JavaScript Debug Terminal. It also walks through an @open entity that accepts properties the model never declared, and reading temporal data defined with CAP's temporal aspect, where a plain read returns only what is valid now and a custom handler is needed to retrieve every time slice.vvdries, published 2024-12-23
New tutorial for UI5 Middleware FE MockserverNew tutorial for UI5 Middleware FE MockserverA step-by-step tutorial accompanying a Devtoberfest session walks through @sap-ux/ui5-middleware-fe-mockserver across nine exercises: zero-config mock data generated from OData metadata, custom JSON datasets with consistent IDs and referential keys, JavaScript actions, multi-service and cross-service scenarios, tenant isolation through sap-client, returning 400/404/422/500/501 responses for UI error-handling tests, and offline end-to-end tests run with wdi5. A companion tool, ui5-middleware-odata-recorder, captures real backend OData traffic to generate the mock datasets used for offline replay.published 2025-10-14
News from Custom Code Migration: ECC to SAP S/4HANA Powered by Agentic AINews from Custom Code Migration: ECC to SAP S/4HANA Powered by Agentic AIA Devtoberfest 2026 session (ABA-23) on what SAP has added to the ECC to SAP S/4HANA custom code migration tools, demonstrated across a live ECC and an S/4HANA system. The first half stays deterministic and explains static analysis in that process: the custom code migration app's scoping over ABAP test cockpit findings, an explain of a legacy report and of an S/4HANA simplification finding, and transferable quick fixes exported from the app and applied on the ECC system through the SAP GUI ATC transaction before conversion. The second half runs the S/4HANA custom code migration agent in ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse: GitHub Copilot drives the ADT MCP Server's ATC and quick-fix tools in a loop, SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities produces the AI code proposals behind it, and only the high-confidence ones are written into the code, the rest left as comments in one transport request.published 2026-09-28
Part 1: How to create CAPM project in BASPart 1: How to create CAPM project in BASThe claim in the opening is the interesting part — database, service and UI without switching technologies — and then the project that follows from it. Part one, and it stops at a project that runs.Vennilla00, published 2026-03-05
Part 1: How to create CAPM project in BAS
Generators changed in @sap/cds-dk 10.0.3, 2026-07-02. Affects A recipe.
Patterns for using LLMs in ABAP developmentPatterns for using LLMs in ABAP developmentLars Hvam compares eight ABAP development setups: assistance in SE80 or Eclipse, virtual files and MCP over ADT, a centrally managed MCP service, sandboxes, local Git, Git with read-only system context, and temporary ABAP systems for development and CI. The overview describes where source changes, review and system access happen, including abapGit synchronization and abaplint checks. It is dated March 2026; its risk, cost and autonomy ratings are the writer’s assessments.
Prompt-Driven Development: Building Full-Stack SAP CAP Apps from User StoriesPrompt-Driven Development: Building Full-Stack SAP CAP Apps from User StoriesA user story in, a scaffolded full-stack CAP application out, through SAP Build Code and Joule. The question it is actually asking is how much of the foundational code is worth generating, and it answers by generating all of it.AnuradhaDhingan, published 2025-12-11
Quick Implementation of DI/DI Container on SAP CAP: Node.js Hands-on PartQuick Implementation of DI/DI Container on SAP CAP: Node.js Hands-on PartThe hands-on half of a pair — the theory is in the author's earlier post — built on the official bookshop sample with the directories flattened so the pattern is visible rather than the scaffolding. Assumes CAP and TypeScript already.Umezuki, published 2025-05-02
Random Numbers and Probability Distributions in the ABAP Environments for 2508Random Numbers and Probability Distributions in the ABAP Environments for 2508Introduces CL_ABAP_PROB_DISTRIBUTION and CL_ABAP_PROB_DISTRIBUTION_DF34, new ABAP system classes that generate random numbers from a distribution — normal, lognormal, exponential, gamma, chi-squared, Poisson, binomial, Student's t, hypergeometric, geometric — rather than only the uniform spread CL_ABAP_RANDOM gives. The worked example builds customer payment dates clustered around a due date instead of spread evenly across it, which is the shape seed data needs to look real rather than merely present; the same classes also compute CDFs and quantiles for statistical tests like a t-test on payment lateness. SAP plans this for on-premise and the private cloud with the 2025 major S/4HANA release, subject to change.kilian_kilger, published 2025-08-18
Receive Events from Event Mesh of Integration Suite to CAP Node.js ApplicationsReceive Events from Event Mesh of Integration Suite to CAP Node.js ApplicationsWalks a CAP Node.js application through consuming events from SAP Integration Suite, Event Mesh: adding the messaging and xsuaa services with cds add, writing messaging.on handlers for named topics, and building and deploying the service as an MTA to Cloud Foundry. Documents a mismatch between Cloud Foundry's automatic queue provisioning and Event Mesh's management API, worked around by pointing the service key's management URI at a mock endpoint that always returns 201.KevinWang_ST_Consultancy, published 2026-02-13
Remote Debugging of SAP CAPM App - NodejsRemote Debugging of SAP CAPM App - NodejsDebugging a CAP Node.js application that is not on your machine, built up from cds init and a custom action so there is something to breakpoint. The part people need is at the end; the beginning is there so the end is reproducible.darshanv23, published 2025-06-05
Rethinking security for modern SAP solution landscapesRethinking security for modern SAP solution landscapesWhere risk goes when clean core moves custom logic out of SAP S/4HANA: into integration flows, CAP extensions, ABAP Cloud code and platform configuration, told through real attack stories, then scanning code, modelling attack paths, adding security gates to CI/CD pipelines and automating safely with Terraform. The scanning edge is to static analysis, the atlas's concern for security findings in ABAP code; the abstract lists the four surfaces and the four practices and describes none of them. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Tsovinar Chugaszyan, 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
Running CAP Node Applications in SAP Business Application StudioRunning CAP Node Applications in SAP Business Application StudioThe Run Configurations tool, which is where binding and mocking live in BAS rather than in a terminal. Three things it does: several named configurations per application in a tree, dependencies bound to real service instances, and OData dependencies mocked. The author notes the configurations are standard launch entries underneath, which is the detail that lets you leave the tool behind if you want to.liat_b, published 2020-10-22
S/4HANA公有云版的内部ABAP拓展S/4HANA公有云版的内部ABAP拓展Argues that S/4HANA Cloud public edition's in-app ABAP extensibility is still real ABAP development, just under stricter rules: developer extensions require ABAP Development Tools rather than SAP GUI transactions, data models are defined as CDS views instead of SE11 tables, business logic is a RAP behavior definition instead of a function module, and service exposure is an auto-generated OData service from a Service Definition instead of a hand-built RFC/BAPI. The piece walks a worked example — a Fiori app that triggers the Purchase Requisition API — through CDS, RAP, OData activation on SAP Gateway, and authorization via business catalogues, and frames the whitelist of released APIs and CDS views as upgrade-safety rather than a restriction.ArthurYang, published 2025-11-24
SAP AI Services - DOX - Gen AI with SAP CAP Plugin - Part 3SAP AI Services - DOX - Gen AI with SAP CAP Plugin - Part 3Building on Reusable components for CAP with cds-plugin by Daniel Schlachter, this part walks through a custom CAP plugin — a cds-plugin.js plus a lib_cap_dox.js helper — that authenticates against SAP's Document Information Extraction (DOX) service and calls its schema and job-status APIs to fill an entity from extracted document fields. It covers reading the service key from Cloud Foundry (cf service-key) for the OAuth token endpoint, and dynamically mapping DOX's header and line-item output onto CAP entity properties.sabarna17, published 2024-06-11
SAP BAIP, ABAP environment – How to build partner solutions and get them certifiedSAP BAIP, ABAP environment – How to build partner solutions and get them certifiedA Devtoberfest 2026 session on the two ways a partner ships an ABAP Cloud solution built on SAP BTP ABAP environment, which the session calls the ABAP environment of SAP Business AI Platform: software delivery, where an add-on product is published with the solution ID from SAP Store onboarding and the customer discovers and deploys it into their own system, and service delivery, where the partner operates the same add-on as a multi-tenant SaaS and a new version is deployed rather than published again. That is the ABAP environment edge; the static analysis edge rests on the quality steps shown in the landscape portal, where the Manage Continuous Testing app released with 2608 runs an ATC check variant against a configured system on a recurrence pattern, beside test product version builds and managed test tenants. The second half walks through the SAP Integration and Certification Center process and the three BTP certification options open to an add-on product.SAP Developers, published 2026-10-12
SAP BAIP, ABAP environment: Monitoring and troubleshootingSAP BAIP, ABAP environment: Monitoring and troubleshootingMonitoring and troubleshooting a side-by-side application written in the ABAP Cloud model on SAP BTP ABAP environment, which SAP's title calls SAP BAIP, ABAP environment, and which the abstract files under a clean core strategy at level A: the environment's technical monitoring tools for the monitoring half, and ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse for the troubleshooting half, the debugging concern. The abstract names the environment and the Eclipse tools, leaves the monitoring tools unnamed, and does not say what is shown of either. A TechEd 2026 hands-on session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Frank Jentsch, Robert Werlich, Steffen Siegmund and Wolfgang Woehrle, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
SAP BTP Showcase – SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery (SAP CI&D) for SAP HANA CloudSAP BTP Showcase – SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery (SAP CI&D) for SAP HANA CloudA pipeline for the database half of a CAP application, built with cds add pipeline — one command that writes a Jenkinsfile and a .pipeline folder — and then the mta module that makes a database change deploy itself.gcalixtos, published 2021-01-27
SAP BTP Showcase – SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery (SAP CI&D) for SAP HANA Cloud
Database connectors has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects Runnable code.
SAP CAP Lessons Learned: SQLite is single threaded, HANA is notSAP CAP Lessons Learned: SQLite is single threaded, HANA is notA page long, and one of the more useful pages here: the local database serialises what the deployed one runs in parallel, so concurrency bugs are invisible until they are not. Filed by the author as something the tutorials do not make clear.LucasMagriniRigo, published 2025-01-22
SAP CAP: Best VSCode extensions for TypeScript development (UI5 & NodeJS)SAP CAP: Best VSCode extensions for TypeScript development (UI5 & NodeJS)A working editor setup for CAP with TypeScript, listed extension by extension across the Node.js and UI5 halves. The kind of post that ages by attrition rather than by being wrong — the reasoning about what an editor needs to know about a CDS project outlives any particular extension in the list.published 2024-04-29
SAP CAP: Best VSCode extensions for TypeScript development (UI5 & NodeJS)
Editor support changed in @sap/cds-dk 8.8.0, 2025-03-04. Affects Runnable code.
SAP CAP: Controller - Service - Repository architectureSAP CAP: Controller - Service - Repository architectureThe pattern the author's two libraries exist to support, set out as a whole rather than one package at a time: a controller layer receiving the request, a service layer holding business logic, and a repository layer owning persistence — the separation CAP leaves to the developer once a model has produced an OData service. Read after the dispatcher and repository posts, or before them as the argument for both.published 2024-04-22
SAP CAP: Controller - Service - Repository architecture
@dxfrontier/cds-ts-dispatcher has been through 4 major lines since this was published, most recently 4 (2025-01), 5 (2025-07), 6 (2026-07). Affects Runnable code.
SAP CAPv7 - Node.js Highlights and ExperiencesSAP CAPv7 - Node.js Highlights and ExperiencesAn account of upgrading a 100+ table CAP Node.js project from v6 to v7, working through breaking changes in @sap/cds 7: event handlers now always receive an array, service paths move under /odata/v4/... unless serve_on_root is set, and cds-serve replaces cds run. It goes deepest on the GraphQL plugin, @cap-js/graphql: the /graphql endpoint it serves, Composition results wrapped in a nodes connection, and offset-based pagination reached through OData's top and skip rather than GraphQL's own limit and offset.published 2023-08-03
SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) - start hereSAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) - start hereThe orientation post for CAP, published in 2018 and revised in 2020 and again in 2021 with help credited to Iwona Hahn — which is the unusual part: a starting-point index that was maintained rather than left to rot, and says so at the top. Read as the shape of what a newcomer was pointed at, and as a marker of how much of that changed inside three years.published 2018-10-10
SAP Cloud Application Programming Model（CAP）：概要およびデモ - Part 1SAP Cloud Application Programming Model（CAP）：概要およびデモ - Part 1Introduces SAP Cloud Application Programming Model as an open, opinionated framework that shoulders OData plumbing and database-specific code so a domain is modelled once in CDS, then builds a small bookshop project to show it: @sap/cds-dk's cds init scaffolds the project, cds watch serves it locally with live reload against an in-memory SQLite database, and a CatalogService projects a CDS domain model seeded from CSV files. The result is read as an OData service in the browser and exercised further through a Postman collection, with the optional @sap/vscode-cds extension noted for CDS syntax highlighting and completion in VS Code.rasai, published 2020-12-31
SAP Fiori Application Generator Available in Open SourceSAP Fiori Application Generator Available in Open SourceThe SAP Fiori tools team announces that the code behind @sap/generator-fiori has moved entirely to open source, and names the packages it is built from: writers that output SAP Fiori elements and freestyle SAPUI5 application files, inquirer prompts for picking a back end, and ABAP deploy tasks, coordinated by a sub-generator. Before publishing, the team broke up what had been a monolith, added TypeScript typings and raised test coverage.jlong, published 2025-05-27
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
Set up VS Code on Chrome OS for local Application Programming Model developmentSet up VS Code on Chrome OS for local Application Programming Model developmentA CAP development environment on a Chromebook, written from preference rather than constraint — the author sets out why Chrome OS is his primary machine before showing the setup. Carries its own updates section noting what has changed since, which for a 2018 post about an operating system is most of it. The interest now is that local CAP development was portable this early.published 2018-10-16
Set up VS Code on Chrome OS for local Application Programming Model development
Local development has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @sap/cds-dk 7.9.1, 2024-05-02. Affects Runnable code.
Simplifying SAP BTP Authentication in Pipelines with SAP Passport and PlaywrightSimplifying SAP BTP Authentication in Pipelines with SAP Passport and PlaywrightClient-certificate login to BTP works locally and has historically not worked in automated pipelines. The post uses Playwright's then-new client certificate support to close that, which is a sideways use of a browser automation library and the reason it is worth recording — the constraint it removes is a CI constraint, not a testing one.published 2024-11-08
Storyboard for cloud business applications using CAP in SAP Business Application StudioStoryboard for cloud business applications using CAP in SAP Business Application StudioThe first release of the Storyboard, written by the team shipping it. Where the graphical modeller draws the data model, this draws the application: its logical components and the connections between them, alongside an application explorer enhanced in the same release. Short, and it reads as an announcement — the fuller account of using it is Aryan_Raj_Sinha's post two years later.liat_b, published 2021-02-15
Streamlining CAP Development with CDS Graphical Modeler in SAP Business Application StudioStreamlining CAP Development with CDS Graphical Modeler in SAP Business Application StudioThe case for the graphical modeller stated as a scale problem rather than a preference: a model held only as code gets hard to keep in your head once it is large, and the diagram is a second view of the same file. The most recent write-up of the tool here, and the one that treats it as an everyday working aid rather than as a new feature.Jyoti_ranjan, published 2025-07-16
Surviving and Thriving with the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model: Local development hurdlesSurviving and Thriving with the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model: Local development hurdlesThree hurdles in running a CAP application locally: services mocked with cds run --with-mocks return no data across OData associations until the ON clause is hand-written into the imported CDS, an on-premise API reached through the SAP Cloud Connector times out because its proxy is part of destinations and connectivity and reachable only from inside SAP BTP, and a Fiori frontend served from the HTML5 Application Repository needs the HTML5 Repo Mock to reach a local backend at all. It closes with the launch configurations the author uses for debugging cds watch locally and attaching to a running Cloud Foundry instance.maxstreifeneder, published 2023-02-02
Taking CAP to the next level - with TypeScriptTaking CAP to the next level - with TypeScriptThe author's own two packages introduced together, and they are two halves of one idea: cds2types generates TypeScript from the CDS model, cds-routing-handlers arranges the handlers that use them. Published in 2020, years before cds-typer, which makes it the earliest answer in the graph to a question the core answered later.published 2020-05-22
Taking CAP to the next level - with TypeScript
cds-routing-handlers: release and repository quiet for 46 months. Affects Runnable code.
Taking Control of Clean Core: When to Use Project Kernseife in addition to Standard SAP ToolsTaking Control of Clean Core: When to Use Project Kernseife in addition to Standard SAP ToolsWalks through how SAP's standard path classifies custom ABAP extensions into Clean Core Levels A through D, running ABAP Test Cockpit against the Cloudification Repository's release status for each SAP object an extension touches, then feeding results into the RISE with SAP Methodology Dashboard in SAP Cloud ALM. Contrasts that with Project Kernseife, an open-source custom ATC check that lets a team override SAP's classification with project-specific rules, define its own successor objects (including custom wrappers), and expose a Score and Potential Score per finding through a CDS view for prioritizing cleanup — at the cost of owning and maintaining that classification. States which situations favor each: Kernseife where the standard rules are too rigid for the project's reality, the standard dashboard where cross-system comparability and low maintenance effort matter more.LBretschneider, published 2025-11-04
Testing your CAP HANA Artifacts with jest – including multitenancy, hdbprocedure and hdbviewTesting your CAP HANA Artifacts with jest – including multitenancy, hdbprocedure and hdbviewcds.test covers the service; this covers what is underneath it, where the artifact is an hdbprocedure or an hdbview that CDS never sees. That means a real HDI container, so most of the post is about where to get one and how to give CAP access to it — the tests are the easy part once that is true.Tristan, published 2022-08-30
Testing your CAP HANA Artifacts with jest – including multitenancy, hdbprocedure and hdbview
Testing has changed 3 times since this was published, most recently in @cap-js/cds-test 1.0.0, 2026-04-23. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
The ECC-to-CAP Starter KitThe ECC-to-CAP Starter KitA Devtoberfest 2026 session that builds a CAP service and a Fiori elements list report over an SAP ECC gateway service, on the argument that the CAP project, its contract and its UI survive a later move to SAP S/4HANA while the APIs behind them change. The service integration edge is the body of the demo: the metadata of the ECC flight service is saved as an EDMX file, imported with cds import so the model holds the structure and none of the data, projected read-only into a flight service, and one line of handler code forwards each read to ECC, with filtering, sorting and paging translated down to the older OData version the system speaks. The SAP Destination service edge covers the on-premise destination and the additional properties the walkthrough insists on, and the SAP Business Application Studio edge covers the full-stack dev space, the CAP project wizard, the service center plugin for picking up another OData service, and cds watch run under the profile that uses those credentials.published 2026-10-09
The fastest and easiest way to run full-stack applications in SAP Business Application StudioThe fastest and easiest way to run full-stack applications in SAP Business Application StudioThe gap between a mocked local run and a real one, and the tooling that closes it — live data, remote services, defaults overridden. The same author's Run Configurations post is the reference for the tool; this is the case it was built for.liat_b, published 2023-08-02
The Future of ABAP is Here: VS Code ADT, Zero-Config MCP, and AI Co-pilotsThe Future of ABAP is Here: VS Code ADT, Zero-Config MCP, and AI Co-pilotsA walkthrough of ABAP Development Tools for VS Code's general-availability release: connecting to an on-premise or BTP ABAP system, editing classes, CDS and RAP objects, and turning on the extension's built-in ADT MCP Server. Enabled, it lets a co-pilot such as GitHub Copilot or SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities read code, trace dependencies, and run ABAP Unit and ATC checks against the real system rather than guessing from training data.lpodile, published 2026-06-01
Tips and Tricks for Working with Annotations in CAP Projects using Language Server Protocol (LSP) capabilitiesTips and Tricks for Working with Annotations in CAP Projects using Language Server Protocol (LSP) capabilitiesFour settings, from somebody who works on the annotation language server. The premise is the interesting part: CAP's annotation syntax is looser than ABAP CDS or EDMX — a record can be written with or without an explicit type — so the completion has to guess how verbose you want it, and this is where you tell it. Then filtering the completion list, reading the icons, ordering diagnostics by severity, and turning i18n problems on only when you want them.maryana_naboka, published 2021-10-25
Tips: VS Code ExtensionsTips: VS Code ExtensionsA short list of the VS Code extensions worth having for this stack, from 2020. Dated by definition and still the kind of page people go looking for.jhodel18, published 2020-07-13
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
UI Composition with Application Frontend ServiceUI Composition with Application Frontend ServiceWhy shared UI code is hard, and what Application Frontend changes about it. The piece first lays out the three usual answers and what each costs — copying files at development time and repatching every consumer, publishing an npm package and rebuilding every consumer, or hosting the code separately and paying for it in CORS and session handling, or in an extra network hop through a server-side proxy. It then shows a fourth that only this service can do: runtime server-side composition without the hop, configured through routes in the consuming application's xs-app.json, across three cases — a reusable application embedded in a consumer, and two further composition shapes. Read alongside the generator, which scaffolds the mta.yaml, xs-app.json and zipper configuration this model needs.Vadim Tomnikov, published 2026-05-18
UI5 MCP Server Got Extended for UI Integration Cards GenerationUI5 MCP Server Got Extended for UI Integration Cards GenerationVersion 0.2.1 of the UI5 MCP Server adds three tools for UI Integration Cards: get_integration_cards_guidelines feeds an agent current best practices and API versions, create_integration_card scaffolds a new card project, and run_manifest_validation checks the generated manifest against the schema. The post frames these as closing the same gaps as the server's existing tools — an LLM's outdated or wrong card API knowledge — this time for scaffolding and validating a card rather than a full app.daniel_vladinov, published 2026-01-22
UI5 Views, Reimagined: Type-Safe TSX for a Modern Dev ExperienceUI5 Views, Reimagined: Type-Safe TSX for a Modern Dev ExperienceA Devtoberfest 2026 session on @ui5-community/jsx-runtime, the incubation project that lets a UI5 view be written as TSX: XML-like markup that the TypeScript compiler checks against the control's own types and a Babel plugin turns into the constructor calls UI5 already makes. The edge to the runtime rests on the session's own description, which gives the project's documentation site as the session's documentation. The TypeScript support edge holds because that is the session's subject — per-property checking, completion on every attribute, renames that carry through a view, and typed event objects that remove the casts — alongside what stays unchanged: string and expression bindings, controllers, routing and i18n, and XML views living beside TSX ones in the same app. The build edge rests on the setup, where ui5-tooling-transpile is given the JSX transform in ui5.yaml; the walkthrough then builds a bookshop app on a CAP OData service and names what is still missing, UI flexibility and native HTML among it.published 2026-10-09
Use mocking to embrace auth in your domain model from the outsetUse mocking to embrace auth in your domain model from the outsetMock users locally so authorization is modelled from the first commit instead of retrofitted — the argument being that auth added late reshapes a domain model rather than sitting on top of it.SAP
Use SCP CF Destination service in NodeJs locallyUse SCP CF Destination service in NodeJs locallyReading a destination from a laptop, where the environment variable the destination service normally provides does not exist. A small gap with a real cost, since the alternative is deploying to test every change to a remote call.WouterLemaire, published 2020-05-28
Use SCP CF Destination service in NodeJs locally
Destinations changed in @sap-cloud-sdk/connectivity 4.0.0, 2025-03-04. Affects Runnable code.
Use Tasks in Visual Studio Code to start a cds service, an approuter and launch a browser in one goUse Tasks in Visual Studio Code to start a cds service, an approuter and launch a browser in one gocds watch serves the service and the app folder but not the approuter, so anything needing a JWT means a second terminal started by hand. This replaces that with a VS Code task definition — the tasks.json is in the post — so the whole local stack comes up on one command.pieterjanssens, published 2021-04-09
Use Tasks in Visual Studio Code to start a cds service, an approuter and launch a browser in one go
Local development has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @sap/cds-dk 7.9.1, 2024-05-02. Affects Runnable code.
Use TypeScript with the SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelUse TypeScript with the SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelWritten from the position of someone who avoided JavaScript for years and then had to cover CAP, which gives it a useful angle: what TypeScript buys a person arriving from a typed language, and where to start rather than how to finish. Ends on a worked example rather than a survey.KevinR, published 2024-06-24
Useful CAP CDS and Fiori Commands to Accelerate Development and DeploymentUseful CAP CDS and Fiori Commands to Accelerate Development and DeploymentA command-by-command walkthrough of @sap/cds-dk's cds add and fiori add generators: cds add xsuaa writes an XSUAA security configuration from the CDS model's authorization annotations, and cds add hana together with cds deploy --to hana switches persistence from the default SQLite database to SAP HANA Cloud. cds add mta and fiori add deploy-config, from @sap/generator-fiori, build the Cloud Foundry deployment descriptor together, adding a destination-service block and an xs-app.json that routes the Fiori app's calls through a named destination.TiaXu, published 2022-10-19
Using Postman for API Testing with XSUAAUsing Postman for API Testing with XSUAAA way to get a JWT without routing traffic through the approuter and picking the token out of it. The author walks the alternatives first — redirect through the router, intercept the token — and says what is wrong with each, before requesting the token from the service directly.mariusobert, published 2020-03-02
Using the UI5 Mockserver for Client-Specific Data and TestingUsing the UI5 Mockserver for Client-Specific Data and TestingWalks through a same-day feature in @sap-ux/ui5-middleware-fe-mockserver, 'Support autoloading mockdata file for specific tenants', which loads a <Entity>-<client>.json file keyed to the sap-client URL parameter and falls back to the entity's plain JSON file when no client-specific one exists. Shows the setup replacing generated mock data with hand-written JSON, then drives the same sap-client parameter through separate package.json scripts so wdi5 end-to-end tests can run against distinct tenant datasets.published 2024-11-18
What's in Daniel Hutzel's brain?What's in Daniel Hutzel's brain?A Devtoberfest 2026 session in the building-apps track, in which Daniel Hutzel and DJ Adams work through what the CAP team is building for agents. A bookshop gets an MCP endpoint beside its OData one from a single annotation, with the plugin writing the coding agent's configuration itself; in the xt-travels sample five services that know nothing about each other are served over MCP and an agent does the orchestration the hand-built UI and its value helps used to do. Hutzel then annotates a service as an agent so the ReAct loop and the choice of model move into the CAP service, and finally drops MCP for a skill that teaches the agent CQL instead, which is where the edges to Serve your application over MCP, Agent tooling and Agent guidance come from. The mechanism under all of it, a plugin file in the package root and event handlers that can be added to any CAP service, is the edge to Plugin authoring.published 2026-10-02
What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – January 2026What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – January 2026December and January together: the new @assert feature, revised documentation, CDS editor work, and Kyma deployment additions.published 2026-02-09
What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – November 2025What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – November 2025The November edition, led by the Status Transition Flows feature presented at reCAP 2025.published 2025-12-08
What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – September 2025What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – September 2025The monthly release communication for CAP itself, and this edition carries the MCP servers and the Application Frontend Service integration. Kept because a dated list of what shipped when is the only record of that; three editions are indexed here rather than the whole run.published 2025-10-14
XSUAA Local TestingXSUAA Local TestingAdding XSUAA to a CAP project two ways, and then the part that is usually missing: getting the authorisation to behave on a laptop rather than only after deployment. The default authentication mechanism is the easy half; testing it without a landscape is the reason this exists.ManasaManu, published 2024-10-17
XSUAA Local Testing
Authorization has changed twice since this was published, most recently in CAP Java 3.7.1, 2025-01-30. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
加速开发和部署的CAP CDS和Fiori一些实用命令加速开发和部署的CAP CDS和Fiori一些实用命令In Chinese. A command reference rather than a walkthrough — cds import, cds compile, cds deploy --to sqlite, cds add hana, cds add xsuaa — grouped by what they are for. The kind of page that is more useful than a tutorial once you already know what you are doing.TiaXu, published 2022-10-21
加速开发和部署的CAP CDS和Fiori一些实用命令
Generators has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @sap/cds-dk 10.0.3, 2026-07-02. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Agentic AI & AI AgentsAgentic AI & AI AgentsSAP's target picture for AI agents: Joule as the engagement layer — Joule Work, Joule Assistants, Joule Agents — with custom agents from customers, partners and SAP teams connecting through A2A for agent-to-agent collaboration and MCP for tool connectivity, on the SAP Business AI Platform. It says up front that parts are not generally available yet, in particular bidirectional communication with third-party agents through the Agent Gateway, so it reads as direction with the building blocks named rather than a design to copy today.published 2026-08-27
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-native North Star architecture — Platform LayerAI-native North Star architecture — Platform LayerThe platform layer of SAP's North Star architecture, the chapter that says where agents run and what a developer builds them with. It names an AI Golden Path built on the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model, the ABAP Cloud development model with RAP and the SAP Fiori design system, and a managed agent runtime on SAP BTP that is designed to provide software development kits for building agents in any framework, an agent sandbox, container-hosted execution, a skills registry and continuous evaluations, which is the ground agent tooling covers. Agents are extended without changing their code through four patterns, the first of them tool extensibility through the Model Context Protocol, the concern MCP servers is named for; the process-layer chapter adds that a pro-code path with a standardised agent SDK and a prompt-driven path through the Joule Studio solution produce the same code artifact on the same runtime. It describes a design SAP intends rather than products that exist, and the SDK and the registry it names have no entry here yet.published 2026-05-13
AI-native North Star architecture — Platform Layer
Agent tooling changed in @cap-js/agents 0.9.1, 2026-08-14. Affects A reference.
DevOps with SAP BTPDevOps with SAP BTPHow SAP frames a delivery pipeline for applications on BTP Cloud Foundry: continuous integration through the SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery service and its pipeline templates for CAP and Fiori, transport and change management across environments, and a section on reasonable alternatives for teams with existing CI infrastructure. Culture first, tools second, and explicit that the setup differs on other BTP environments.published 2025-06-06
Generative AI on SAP BTPGenerative AI on SAP BTPThe reference shape for a generative AI application on BTP: a CAP backend, SAP HANA Cloud holding data and embeddings for similarity search through its vector engine, and the Generative AI Hub in SAP AI Core as the single access point to foundation models. It shows retrieval-augmented generation on that stack and names the CAP plugins and SDKs that connect the pieces, for both Cloud Foundry and Kyma.published 2025-09-02
Generative AI on SAP BTP
LLM integration changed in @cap-js/ai 1.0.0, 2026-04-28. Affects A reference.
Multitenant SaaS Application using CAPMultitenant SaaS Application using CAPSAP's reference architecture for a multitenant SaaS application on BTP built with CAP: one deployment serving many tenants with logically separated data, the subscription and onboarding flow, and the BTP services the design leans on. Written for partners and line-of-business teams building on BTP, and it is SAP's own side of the shape multitenancy takes on BTP.published 2025-01-31
SAP Document AISAP Document AISAP's reference architecture for SAP Document AI, first as SAP composes the service on BTP for document extraction: OCR, pretrained models, customer-defined schemas and LLM calls through SAP AI Core and its Prompt Registry in one pipeline, with tenant-isolated persistence in SAP HANA Cloud, PostgreSQL and an object store. Its scenario pages then lay out a solution in three layers: intake through Outlook and SharePoint inbound channels, the workspace UI, the Joule Work mobile app or the upload API; classification and extraction with a confidence score per field, automatic confirmation above a threshold and review of the rest in the workspace; and posting through outbound channels, directly to a REST API, through an SAP Integration Suite flow, or through a CAP service that maps the fields and calls SAP S/4HANA over OData. Enrichment beyond the service's own master data lookup is left to a CAP application or an Integration Suite flow triggered from an outbound channel, and direct API posting leaves error handling, retries and monitoring to the application.published 2026-06-03
Recent changes
- Browsing table datacore coverage revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note described the providers as SAP GUI programs only, and browser apps, an IDE extension and a desktop editor have arrived; the state stays core-and-community.
- Build and dev-server toolingcore coverage revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): providers of many kinds arrived after 2026-08-31 and the entry said nothing of what they add. State core-and-community unchanged.
- Calling a service by handcore coverage revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): abap-odata-test arrived after the block was assessed and changes the kinds of community answer; the state stays core-and-community.
- Code formattingcore coverage revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the abap2UI5 playground provides this capability and the text never named it; ABAP FS named for the kind of VS Code integration.
- Code reviewcore coverage revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): providers that arrived after the 2026-09-13 assessment (abapTimeMachine, abapOpenReview, a transport review app) shape the answer; state unchanged, core-and-community.
- Debuggingcore coverage revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the opening counted SAP packages; the list that follows is unchanged.
- Debuggingcore coverage revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): community CAP providers answer the boundary the block names (which handlers ran, why a value came out), and the block said nothing of them. State stays core-and-community.
- Debuggingcoverage by ecosystem revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): seven ABAP providers newer than the block were never named. State stays core-and-community.
- Driving the SAP GUIcore coverage revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): every provider counting for the ABAP door is independent, the SAP sample is not a presence, and the block states no sourced what_core_does, so no core presence is recorded.
- Driving the SAP GUIcore coverage revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the sentence explained a state the providers contradict and made a claim about all providers, which one coordinate-based server and a batch input package do not fit.