The CAP Cookbook

Recipes for CAP Development

The following figure illustrates a walkthrough of the most prominent tasks during development of CAP-based projects. The guides contained in this section provide details and instructions about each.

Domain Modeling

Most projects start with capturing the essential objects of their domain in a respective domain model. Find here an introduction to the basics of domain modeling with CDS, complemented with recommended best practices.

Services & APIs

Services are the central building block to expose and consume functionality in CAP applications. This guide provides an introduction to defining, implementing, and consuming services.

Serving UIs

CAP provides out-of-the-box support for SAP Fiori elements front ends.

Protocols

CAP supports multiple protocols to expose and consume services. This guide provides an overview of the supported protocols and their characteristics.

Databases

These guides provide instructions on how to use databases with CAP applications. Out of the box-support is provided for SAP HANA, SQLite, H2 (Java only), and PostgreSQL.

Integration

The guides in this section covers the various CAP-level service integration and data federation patterns, as well as platform capabilities available to your CAP projects.

Events & Messaging

CAP provides intrinsic support for emitting and receiving events. This is complemented by Messaging Services connecting to message brokers to exchange event messages across remote services.

Security & Data Privacy

This guide teaches how to how to develop, deploy and operate CAP applications in a secure way.

Extensibility

Learn here about intrinsic capabilities to extend your applications in verticalization and customization scenarios.