Getting AI Coding Assistance with Joule for Developers, ABAP AI Capabilities

Generative AI supports you in the end-to-end development for ABAP Cloud.

This course refers to the range of functions that have been shipped as part of the standard delivery for the following products:

• SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition as of 2502
• SAP BTP ABAP environment as of 2502

Generative AI in ABAP Cloud is designed to support you with the following use cases:

• Support you with your day-to-day tasks when working with ABAP code, to increase your efficiency and to lower total cost of development
• Include generative AI in your custom business applications

For the first use case, you get Joule for developers, ABAP AI capabilities, an AI-based toolset integrated into the ABAP development tools for Eclipse. Joule for developers, ABAP AI capabilities simplifies the understanding of complex development objects while working with ABAP Cloud and provides the opportunity to ask interactive questions and receive answers using chat support.

For the second use case, ABAP Cloud provides you with the ABAP AI SDK powered by Intelligent Scenario Lifecycle Management, an ABAP reuse library that you can use to interact with large language models (LLMs) hosted on the generative AI hub at SAP AI Core. You can use the ABAP AI SDK to develop custom GenAI features in your own business applications.

Joule for developers, ABAP AI capabilities supports you with AI-based features during the development process. Joule is comprised of different capabilities that support different use cases and scenarios:

• Predictive code completion: generating ABAP code in the source code editor
• Joule chat: natural language interaction with an AI-based chat to get support for any development-related questions
• Explain: explaining development objects or selected lines of code in natural language
• ABAP Unit: generating and improving unit tests
• CDS test generation: creating ABAP test classes for CDS entities

For more information on getting AI coding assistance with Joule for developers, ABAP AI capabilities, please read the corresponding section in the product documentation.