ABAP & Development

What is ABAP Development Tools (ADT)?

The Eclipse-based IDE for ABAP, required for CDS, RAP, and ABAP Cloud development.

ADT provides modern editing, refactoring, debugging, and ATC integration. Some objects can only be edited in ADT. Developers connect it to on-premise systems or BTP ABAP environments.

Related terms

ABAP Workbench
The SAP GUI-based development environment for ABAP programs, dictionary objects, and screens.
ABAP Cloud
SAP's development model using a restricted ABAP language version, released APIs only, ADT, and RAP for upgrade-stable code.
Core Data Services View
A semantically rich data model defined in SAP's CDS language, executed in the database, underlying S/4HANA analytics, APIs, and Fiori apps.
ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model
SAP's model for building transactional and analytical Fiori apps and APIs using CDS, behavior definitions, and services.

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