Tag: Progress

OpenEdge 10.2A is scheduled to be available soon.  OpenEdge is the only platform that is optimized for the building of Service-Oriented Business Applications.  It differentiates from other offerings in the market because:

• Its purpose to simplify building your data- and...

In the recent research note “Hype Cycle for Web and User Interaction Technologies, 2008”¹, published 7 July 2008 (Gartner document ID Number: G00159447),  Gartner provides a comprehensive analysis of user interface technologies for the Web throughout the Hype Cycle² stages: from Technology...

I'm back from Exchange and vacation and I would like to share some of the questions (and concerns) I heard regarding the Advanced GUI. First and foremost, let's get talk about a new name. It was announced at Exchange that the new names are OpenEdge GUI for .NET and OpenEdge...

Don’t get me wrong. I am a big fan of Ajax. In fact I spoke on Ajax at the Progress Exchange conferences in 2006 and 2007, and was very excited to see that several customers were speaking at Exchange 2008 on how to use Ajax with OpenEdge. However, given...

The OpenEdge 10.2A Beta website is now open for those customers wishing to register for the beta program. The beta program is scheduled to run from 14 July through 1 December, 2008.

The focal point of OpenEdge 10.2A is...

With Exchange now more than a week behind us and most of us now back are at our “day” jobs, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for a great conference. With over 800 attendees learning and sharing in more than 110 sessions and 3 pre-conference workshops the conference was a...

We’ve been talking for a long time now about the OpenEdge Reference Architecture (see a host of definitional and example materials at www.psdn.com under the new Service Oriented Business Application Expertise Center). The OERA is the diagram with the layers from...

With enhancements in the OpenEdge 10.1x release family, ABL (Advanced Business Language) is being extended with standard formal object-oriented (OO) functionality: objects, classes, methods, polymorphism, inheritance, delegation, statics, properties, strong typing, and more.

A big...

One of the major new areas in OpenEdge 10 is the language support for classes. ABL now lets you define source files as classes, as an alternative to procedures, to take advantage of many valuable object-oriented features established by languages like Java and C#, including inheritance and...