Difference Between ABAP on Cloud & Restful ABAP Programming Model (RAP)

[former_member39336]

Hello Experts,

i keep on listening the word ABAP on Cloud these days. i know the back ground of RAP. i would like to know how it differs from ABAP on Cloud. or Would these 2 are one and the same.

Could any one gives me a clarification on this topic.

Regards

Sri Ram

[maheshpalavalli]

Both are completely different.

ABAP RAP is just a framework to develop services(OData services, webapis .,) in abap environment, this can be your on-premise S4HANA or it can be at ABAP Environment on the SAP Cloud Platform. (It is much more than what I specified in the simplified definition, check out the below help)

https://help.sap.com/viewer/923180ddb98240829d935862025004d6/Cloud/en-US/289477a81eec4d4e84c0302fb68...

ABAP on Cloud is nothing but ABAP Environment on the SAP Cloud Platform, which is a PaaS offering for ABAP environment. So we can use ABAP RAP here like any other abap classes or features ( which are allowed).

https://community.sap.com/topics/cloud-platform-abap-environment#:~:text=SAP%20Cloud%20Platform%2C%2....