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SAP RAP What’s New in RAP (ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model)

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SAP RAP What’s New in RAP (ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model)

Introduction-

✅What Is RAP In SAP and Why RAP is Important: The Clean Core Strategy | RAP new features 2025

In SAP ERP The ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP) is SAP’s strategic programming paradigm for developing business applications on the ABAP platform suited for cloud, on-premise and hybrid landscapes.One of the major drivers for SAP pushing RAP is the Clean Core vision. The idea is to minimize direct modifications of SAP standard code / objects, and instead build extensible, upgrade-safe enhancements/extensions using stable, released interfaces. This Factor is Important in RAP helps

👉 1)Providing upgrade-stable business objects and APIs, so that custom work does not break during upgrades.

👉 2)Encouraging use of released extension points, behavior definitions, etc.rather than modifying core logic

👉 3) Aligning with cloud readiness (stateless services, microservices style, API exposure, etc.)

✅ What is RAP — Recap | SAP BTP ABAP environment

ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP) is SAP’s strategic programming paradigm for developing business applications on the ABAP platform suited for cloud, on-premise and hybrid landscapes RAP is built on top of CDS (Core Data Services), Behavior Definitions, Behavior Implementations, Entity Manipulation Language (EML) among others. It allows for managed as well as unmanaged scenarios, draft support, etc.

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✅Where RAP is Available & Supported Platforms:-

1)- SAP BTP, ABAP Environment (formerly “Steampunk”) – the cloud ABAP environment.

2)- SAP S/4HANA: both on-premise and cloud editions. Starting with release 1909, support has been expanding.

3)- SAP S/4HANA Cloud, ABAP environment (embedded Steampunk) also supports RAP

✅ Comparisons: RAP vs Older ABAP Models (BOPF, Classical ABAP)-

1)RAP-BOPF (Business Object Processing Framework) was the earlier SAP object-oriented business object framework. RAP largely replaces or supersedes many use cases of BOPF, especially for new transactional apps. RAP offers cleaner semantics, better testability, more modern architecture..

1)Older ABAP- In Classic ABAP with procedural logic, SE80, module pools, etc. Its, much more manual coding, less standardization of behavior, less support for cloud-ready / upgrade safety..

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✅ RAP vs CAP (Cloud Application Programming Model)-

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🔸 1)RAP (for ABAP on-stack, SAP BTP ABAP environment, S/4HANA) VS 2)CAP (Cloud Application Programming) – languages like Java

Subject RAP CAP
Language ABAP Java, Node.js
Environment ABAP platform, S/4HANA, BTP ABAP env Cloud Foundry, Kyma, etc.
Business Use Cases Finance, Procurement, HR, Logistics, Sales Docs, emails, tasks, CRM (basic)
Integration with SAP Standard Tight – reuse, extensions, released BOs More decoupled, external services etc.
Best suited for Extensions of S/4 business logic, Fiori apps, transactional business objects Microservices, side-by-side, polyglot services, external systems etc.

Practice - Yes/No Quiz

1.RAP is designed only for SAP BTP, ABAP Environment — not for S/4HANA On-Premise.

2.In RAP, Business Object (BO) behavior is defined in a separate Behavior Definition object.

3.he RAP model supports both managed and unmanaged business object implementations.

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