Does CAP replace HANA XSA ?

[dvankempen]

Hi,

Cloud application programming model (CAP) allows you (among other things) to create hana db artifacts using CDS.

So, Does this replace HANA XS Advanced for developing hana native applications in the cloud ?

It seems that CAP is the model that SAP is fostering also for this hana developments in the cloud, So will hana xs advance be deprecated ? I guess HANA XSA is still an option for on-pre.

Can anyone advise, please ? Is there some kind of roadmap depicting the strategy for these developments.

Thank you !

[dvankempen]

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[andrew_wu]

Hi denys.kempen

Thanks for this explanation about the difference between XSA & CAP. I'm having a follow up question regarding the new SAP HANA Cloud environment, to work with HANA cloud, should you choose to use XSA programming model, or CAP? I just tried to deploy our MTA application to HANA cloud, but it appears HANA cloud doesn't even support XSA db artifacts (hdbcds)?

Regards
Andrew

[dvankempen]

Hi Andrew,

Your question inspired a blog post. It is a bit of a read but I hope it should make this clear.

• https://blogs.sap.com/2020/11/25/a-field-guide-to-sap-hana-development-how-to-get-started-or-keep-on...

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to work with HANA cloud, should you choose to use XSA programming model, or CAP? 

In brief, both can be used but CAP would be a better candidate today when developing cloud applications in my view. CAP and the Business Application Studio (BAS) are more recent and align with both SAP's cloud-first as multi-cloud foundation strategy.

The XSA programming model extends Cloud Foundry programming to the SAP HANA platform and also supports SAP HANA development for the SAP Cloud Platform, Cloud Foundry environment. This goes back to 2015/16 to provide guidance to developers switching from XS Classic to XS Advanced.