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@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
TypeScript SDK over SAP's headless adt-ls language server
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.
@sap/cds-lsp@sap/cds-lspLanguage server for CDS — the engine behind completion, navigation and inline errors in every supported editor.sap official, cap
Language server for CDS
@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
OData annotation features for the @sap/vscode-cds extension
@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
CDS language support for VS Code and Business Application Studio
@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
Workspace-wide CSN cache for querying CAP entities and columns
@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
SQLTools connection from a Cloud Foundry app's HANA binding
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
Eclipse plugin showing the call hierarchy of ABAP members
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
SAP's Eclipse plugins for ABAP development over ADT
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
SAP's ABAP tools in VS Code for editing, debugging, ATC and transports
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
VS Code extension editing ABAP systems over ADT as a filesystem
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
VS Code syntax highlighting for .abap files
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
Eclipse plugin for tagging ABAP repository objects
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
JS/TS client for the ADT resources of an ABAP system
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-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
ADT backend for the ABAP Call Hierarchy Eclipse plugin
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
ADT backend for the ABAP Tags Eclipse plugin
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
VS Code extension to preview, activate and lint abap2UI5 apps
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 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
In-browser ABAP editor beside the abap2UI5 app it builds
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.
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
ABAP objects enabling ADT updates on systems older than 7.51
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.
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
Three colour themes for ABAP source in ADT for Eclipse
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
Eclipse plugin bringing Claude into ABAP Development Tools
cds-eclipse-plugincds-eclipse-pluginEclipse plugin for the CDS language.independent, cap
Eclipse plugin for the CDS language
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
cds-intellijcds-intellijSAP CDS language support for IntelliJ IDEA.sap official, cap
SAP CDS language support for IntelliJ IDEA
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
TextMate grammar for the CDS language
Not an editor integration. If you want completion, navigation and diagnostics, that is the CDS language server, not this.
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
Eclipse plugin linking ABAP transports to SAP Cloud ALM features
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.
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
Native macOS code editor for ABAP and CDS
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.
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
Collection of ABAP Development Tools IDE Actions
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
Development environment on BTP for UI5, Fiori, mobile and CAP
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
Browser-based development environment with dev spaces
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
IDE service on SAP BTP for SAPUI5, Fiori and full-stack apps
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
VS Code syntax highlighting for .tabl.ddic table definitions
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
VS Code extension for SAPUI5 and OpenUI5 XML views and manifest
zed-cds-extensionzed-cds-extensionCDS language support for the Zed editor, wiring the CDS language server into it.independent, cap
CDS language support for the Zed editor
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 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
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-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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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 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 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
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
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
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.
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
VS Code sidebar that opens SAP transactions through WebGUI
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.
sapguisapguiThirty classic transactions, SE80 and SE16N among them, rebuilt as abap2UI5 apps and installed with abapGit into a standard ABAP system.independent, abap
Thirty classic transactions rebuilt as abap2UI5 apps
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.
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
Browser page searching SAP transaction codes
@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
Interactive generator for CAP event handler files
@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
Interactive project installer for CAP Node.js
@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
Writer module for changing a CAP project's configuration from code
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
Command line for changing features of an existing Fiori project
@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
Writer of flexible programming model elements into Fiori elements apps
@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
Shared functions and types of the Fiori generators
@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
Writer that adds an OData service to an existing UI5 project
@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
Writer of the base structure of a UI5 project from Node code
@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
Command line client and development toolkit for 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
CAP project generator behind SAP Business Application Studio's wizard
@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
CDS project generator, deprecated in favour of @sap/cds-dk
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
Drag-and-drop UI5 view editor that writes an abap2UI5 app class
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.
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
ABAP transaction generating an MVC-style project from a template
No published releases; repository quiet for 48 months.
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
Maven plugin running CDS build steps in a CAP Java project
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
Maven archetype generating a new CAP Java project
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
npm-init wrapper for the Easy-UI5 Yeoman generator
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
npm initializer adding wdi5 testing to an existing UI5 app
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
Yeoman meta-generator for scaffolding UI5 projects
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
Yeoman generator for UI5 tooling-extension projects
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
Easy-UI5 generator scaffolding a new UI5 application
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
Yeoman generator for UI5 custom controls distributed via npm
No published releases; repository quiet for 66 months.
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
Easy-UI5 generator scaffolding a new UI5 library
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
Yeoman generator for UI5 libraries wrapping UI5 Web Components
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
Yeoman generator for UI5 projects holding several applications
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
Yeoman generator for a UI5 app that loads a React app
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
Easy-UI5 generator scaffolding a TypeScript UI5 application
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 for a TypeScript UI5 FlexibleColumnLayout app on OData
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
Easy-UI5 generator scaffolding a TypeScript UI5 library
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
Yeoman generator scaffolding wdi5 test configuration into a UI5 app
No published releases; repository quiet for 27 months.
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
Joule's generative AI inside SAP Build Code
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
Development environment on BTP for UI5, Fiori, mobile and CAP
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
Command line generator of UI5 custom controls from html
Release and 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
Starter repository for an abap2UI5 app with CI and agent setup
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
Repository template with LICENSE, REUSE and compliance files
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
TechEd 2025 workshop on a Fiori app with ABAP Cloud and Joule
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
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 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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
Windows build packaging Eclipse with ADT as a portable IDE
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
Carries home-directory dotfiles from one BAS dev space to another
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.
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
PowerShell wizard installing Eclipse with ADT and plugins
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`.
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
Theia distribution with ABAP and UI5 support as a Docker image
No published releases; repository quiet for 68 months.
@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
ESLint plugin with one consultancy's rules for CDS files
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
Shared ESLint configuration for SAPUI5 and CAP projects
@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
ESLint rules for projects the Fiori tools generators produce
@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's ESLint plugin for CDS
@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
Rule-based checker for SAPUI5 and OpenUI5 projects
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/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
Static analysis tool for UI5 projects
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
ESLint rules flagging deprecated CAP configuration
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
Regex naming rules for SAP HANA artifacts in a CAP project
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.
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
SAPUI5 extension for Visual Studio Code
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
Command-line linter for UI5 classes, XML views and i18n files
Two of its JavaScript and TypeScript checks, EventTypeLinter and WrongNamespaceLinter, apply to TypeScript projects only.
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
VS Code extension for SAPUI5 and OpenUI5 XML views and manifest
@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
OpenUI5 sample app set up with the UI5 CLI
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
UI5con workshop taking a legacy UI5 app to a clean UI5 linter report
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
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
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
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
