SAP Cloud SDK

SAP Cloud SDK Overview

SAP S/4HANA accompanies organizations across the world in their digital transformation journey that requires them to adopt best-in-class software with high agility. This is further extended by SAP Cloud Platform that gives developers the power to build and run high-quality applications that conform to the highest order of performance, security and reliability tests. This is where the SAP Cloud SDK comes in. Making the application development experience delightful, the SDK provides you out-of-the-box capabilities, such as the simplified integration with SAP S/4HANA and Business Suite and beyond using the virtual data model for exposed APIs, abstractions of the underlying cloud platform implementation of SAP Cloud Platform, fault-tolerance, cache management, tutorials, project templates, and many more. SAP Cloud SDK is based on the SAP S/4HANA Cloud SDK that you might know from the past. We announce this evolution and support of other SAP LoB solutions at SAPPHIRE 2019. Find more information about this announcement in the following resources:

Components of the SAP Cloud SDK

The list of supported LoB solutions already includes systems such as SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Business ByDesign, SAP Cloud for Customer, and SAP Cloud for Real Estate. We are working on extending the list of supported systems and on providing users of the SAP Cloud SDK with the comprehensive documentation on the corresponding SDK components. On a high level, the SAP Cloud SDK consists of two technical components: SAP Cloud SDK libraries and the Continuous Delivery Toolkit. Note, that you can use the SDK libraries in integration with SAP Cloud Application Programming Model, as well as independently with any framework of choice. The libraries are provided for Java and for JavaScript/TypeScript in SAP Cloud Platform. The SAP Cloud SDK is available for free under SAP Developer License. Java libraries can be downloaded from Maven Central. JavaScript/TypeScript libraries are available via SAP npm repository, as described in the announcement blog post for the SAP Cloud SDK for JavaScript. Continuous Delivery Toolkit for projects based on the SAP Cloud SDK is an open-source component and is available via GitHub. Please, refer to the following blog post containing the detailed instructions on how to set up the CI/CD pipeline of the Continuous Delivery Toolkit.

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