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# [Multitenancy](multitenancy)
# [Security](security)
# [Spring Boot Integration](spring-boot-integration)
+# [CAP in non-CAP applications](cap_in_non_cap_applications)
# [Developing Applications](developing-applications/)
## [Building](developing-applications/building)
## [Running](developing-applications/running)
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+---
+synopsis: >
+ This guide shows how non-CAP Spring Boot applications can integrate themselves into service offerings of SAP BTP using different CAP modules without the need to completely migrate to CAP Java.
+status: released
+---
+
+# Use CAP Java modules with plain Spring Boot applications
+
+
+
+{{ $frontmatter.synopsis }}
+
+The CAP Java framework [integrates itself with Spring Boot](./spring-boot-integration) every CAP Java app is also a Spring Boot app. But thanks to the modular nature of CAP Java every plain Spring Boot application (built without CAP) can also use dedicated CAP Java modules (features) if needed.
+
+The main use case for using CAP Java features in plain Spring Boot is to re-use existing BTP integration modules like e.g. the BTP Audit Log Service or SAP Event Hub.
+
+In general, adding a feature is just adding one or more dependencies to the application's `pom.xml` as well as adding configuration to the application.yaml (or other mechanisms for [Spring Boot configuration](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/reference/features/external-config.html).
+
+## SAP Audit Log Service
+
+In order to add Audit log support you need to add the following dependencies to your `pom.xml`:
+
+```xml
+
+ com.sap.cds
+ cds-services-api
+ ${cds.services.version}
+
+
+
+ com.sap.cds
+ cds-framework-spring-boot
+ ${cds.services.version}
+ runtime
+
+```
+
+Please also maintain a version property in your `` section:
+
+```xml
+4.6.2
+```
+
+:::info
+As the logical layer of audit log is already part of the core CAP Java components you can already start with these 2 additions using the audit log for local development. The audit log messages will be written to SLF4j's default logger using the log level `DEBUG`. In order to see the messages on the console of your app you need to set the log level to 'DEBUG':
+:::
+
+```yaml
+logging.level.com.sap.cds.auditlog: DEBUG
+```
+
+Now, you can write client code that is actually producing and publishing audit log messages. First, you need to choose the class/component in that you want to publish audit log messages. In that class you need to declare a new class member of type `com.sap.cds.services.auditlog.AuditLogService` and inject it via constructor injection (@Autowired works but is discouraged). With that done, you can create the message that is going to be published as a audit log:
+
+```java
+ConfigChange change = ConfigChange.create();
+DataObject object = DataObject.create();
+KeyValuePair key = KeyValuePair.create();
+key.setKeyName("id");
+key.setValue(String.valueOf(owner.getId()));
+object.setId(List.of(key));
+object.setType("Owner");
+change.setDataObject(object);
+ChangedAttribute attribute = ChangedAttribute.create();
+attribute.setName("Owner");
+attribute.setNewValue(String.valueOf(owner.getId()));
+change.setAttributes(List.of(attribute));
+```
+
+In the final step you pass the created message to the `AuditLogService`:
+
+```java
+auditLogService.logConfigChange(Action.CREATE, createOwnerConfigChange(owner.getId()));
+```
+
+When you now run through the modified application code you should be able to read the logged audit message on the console of your Spring Boot application.
+
+As said, with the past changes you just enabled the local variant of the audit log support. For the full integration of the deployed application with the SAP Audit Log service you also need to add this dependency to your `pom.xml`:
+
+```xml
+
+ com.sap.cds
+ cds-feature-auditlog-ng
+ 0.0.3
+
+```
+
+For further configuration of this module please follow the [README of the module](https://github.com/cap-java/cds-feature-auditlog-ng).
+
+## CAP Messaging
+
+The CAP framework offers a logical messaging layer. This means that applications can emit events and messages to a `MessagingService` regardless of the target messaging infrastructure. The local default implementation for messaging is using the filesystem as the communication layer. Similar to the logical audit log support the messaging layer is already part of the core CAP Java modules. Thus, a plain Spring Boot application only needs to perform these two steps to activate CAP messaging:
+
+At first you need to make sure that the following dependencies are part of your `pom.xml`:
+
+```xml
+
+ com.sap.cds
+ cds-services-api
+ ${cds.services.version}
+
+
+
+ com.sap.cds
+ cds-framework-spring-boot
+ ${cds.services.version}
+ runtime
+
+```
+
+Again, you need to set a property for the `cds.services.version`:
+
+```xml
+4.6.2
+```
+
+After setting up the dependencies you just need to activate the file-based messaging in the applications configuration:
+
+```yaml
+cds.messaging.services.messaging.kind: file-based-messaging
+```
+### Emitting Messages
+
+In order to use CAP Java messaging to send messages from your application's code you need to inject an instance of `com.sap.cds.services.messaging.MessageService` into your class and set it as a class member. Then, you can use the CAP Java `MessageService` in your application's code like this to emit messages:
+
+```java
+Map data = Map.of("ownerId", owner.getId(), "petId", petId, "date", visit.getDate(), "descr", visit.getDescription());
+messaging.emit("org.spring.alesi.PlannedVisit", data);
+```
+
+### Handling Messages
+
+And in another
+
+ @On(event = "org.spring.alesi.PetBabiesBorn", service = "messaging")
+ public void handlePetBabiesBorn(TopicMessageEventContext context) {
+ Map data = context.getDataMap();
+ int ownerId = (int) data.get("ownerId");
+ int petId = (int) data.get("motherId");
+ String count = (String) data.get("description");
+ }
+
+
+
+When you now start your application you will see new files created at the root of your application's file system. These are the files being used for exchanging messages. run through your modified application code you will see that
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