SAP Cloud Platform development: Business Application Studio or WebIDE?

[#1]

Hi,

What is the recommended IDE to develop cloud applications?

Business Application Studio is a replacement for WebIDE?

Should we use XSA or CAP is the new way?

Regards,

Peter

[Ashok-Kumar-M]

Hi Peter,

The WebIDE Full Stack was an IDE provided in SAP Cloud Platform Neo environment (although one could also deploy applications into Cloud Foundry environment as well).

SAP Business Application Studio is an IDE for Cloud Foundry (Multi-Cloud) environment. As you might be aware cloud foundry environment is strategically the way to go.

With regard to programming model there is no change between WebIDE Full Stack and SAP Business Application Studio, so Cloud Application Programming (CAP) is the recommended approach regardless of IDEs.

If you're starting new I would recommend you start with SAP Business Application Studio.

Best Regards,

Ashok.

[jhodel18]

Hi Peter,

XSA is an environment or technology for HANA on-premise that mimics the capability of Cloud Foundry. To put it simply, XSA is the on-premise counterpart of Cloud Foundry. To compare it with CAP which is a programming model doesn't do justice.

Having said that, if your environment is XSA, you could use CAP model to build your applications there.

See this tutorial:

https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/xsa-cap-create-project.html

And yes, Business Application Studio is replacing SAP WebIDE. But in this case, you have the option to use Visual Studio Code without missing any features offered by Business Application Studio.