Learning Sources ​

Capire, Samples, Tutorials, Podcasts, ...

The capire Documentation ​

This documentation — named 'capire', italian for understand — is the official documentation for CAP. It's organized as follows:

Callouts and Alerts ​

We use GitHub-flavored alerts to highlight important information in our documentation. Here are the different types of alerts or callouts you may encounter:

The capire Samples ​

The capire samples at https://github.com/capire are the official and curated collection of samples for the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model, maintained by the CAP team.

Featured Samples ​

Partner Reference App ​

The Partner Reference Application provides a “golden path” for SaaS providers on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), featuring:

• centralized identity and access management,
• a common launchpad,
• cross-application front-end navigation,
• and secure back-channel integration.

You also find the bill of materials and a sizing example. This addresses the question "Which BTP resources do I need to subscribe to and in what quantities?" and serves as a basis for cost calculation.

Star Wars App ​

SWAPI - the Star Wars API, a CAP-based adaptation of swapi.dev, a Python-based app that exposed data from the Star Wars movies. The many bi-directional, many-to-many relationships with the data provide a good basis for an SAP Cloud Application Programming Model and Fiori Draft UI sample.

BTP SuSaaS App ​

The Sustainable SaaS (SuSaaS) sample application has been built in a partner collaboration to help interested developers, partners, and customers in developing multitenant Software as a Service applications using CAP and deploying them to the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).

The qmacro Series ​

SAP Developer Advocate DJ Adams has compiled a vast number of learning resources around CAP, published under the umbrella of qmacro, which are most recommended to both beginners and advanced users of CAP:

Videos ​

• The Art and Science of CAP (with Daniel Hutzel)
• Under the hood: CDS Expressions in CAP (with Patrice Bender)
• Expert sessions: Getting started with CAP Node.js (with Daniel Schlachter)
• CAP in the age of AI (with various CAP team members)
• Back to basics: CAP Node.js
• Back to basics: Managed associations in CAP
• Good to know: CAP Node.js
• How things work: CAP Node.js plugins
• Hands-on SAP Dev general live stream series
• Did you know? featuring CAP topics

Blog post series ​

• The Art and Science of CAP
• Local-first dev with CAP Node.js
• Under the hood: CDS Expressions in CAP
• Modules, modularity & reuse in CDS models
• CAP Node.js Plugins
• All posts tagged with 'cap'

Selected individual articles ​

• Shift left with CAP
• Five reasons to use CAP
• CAP service authentication at design time and in production
• Flattening the hierarchy with mixins
• A reCAP intro to the cds REPL
• A deep dive into OData and CDS annotations
• Using @capire modules from GitHub Packages
• Modelling contained-in relationships with compositions in CDS
• A simple exploration of status transition flows in CAP

Workshop exercise content ​

• Service integration with SAP Cloud Application Programming Model
• A hands-on tour of CAP
• Stay cool, stay local: CAP local development workshop
• Hands-on with CAP CDS

Miscellaneous ​

• The 'capref' collection – Axioms, Best Practices and Features
• Integrating an external API into a CAP service

SAP Learning Sources ​

• SAP Learning Courses
• SAP BTP Developers Guide
  • Tutorials featured in there
• SAP Discovery Center Missions
• Recently published (Aug 2026) tutorials in the Tutorial Navigator
  • Set up a self-contained development environment for CAP Node.js
  • Use mocking to embrace auth in your domain model from the outset
  • Explore the declarative power of status-transition flows
  • Get an introduction to the cds REPL
  • Add MCP capabilities to a CAP service

Hands-Ons & CodeJams ​

• TechEd 2023 Hands-On AD264 – Build Extensions with CAP
• TechEd 2022 Hands-On AD264 – Verticalization, Customization, Composition

Blog Posts & Other Material ​

• Hybrid Testing and Alternative DBs
  by Thomas Jung
• Consume External Services
  by Thomas Jung
• Building a CAP app in 60 min
  by Martin Stenzig
• Surviving and Thriving with the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model
  by Max Streifeneder (2023)
• Multitenant SaaS applications on SAP BTP using CAP? Tried-and-True!
  by Martin Frick (2022)