OpenEdge® 10.1A
Introduction & Overview
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Product Readiness
What is OpenEdge 10 Anyway?
 A roadmap for how applications will be defined,
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developed, deployed, managed and integrated
A project involving 4 application development
strategies
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Advanced business logic capabilities
Integration capabilities
User interface independence
Database capabilities
 An initiative to bring SOA concepts to reality
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OpenEdge 10 Roadmap for SOA
Focus on
Enablement
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Focus on
Productivity
Focus on
Best Practices
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OpenEdge 10 Delivery Concept
For Any Capability…
Start by Making It Possible
Work on Making it Easier
Then Automate It
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OpenEdge Phasing and Objectives
OpenEdge 10
For Any Capability…
Phase I: Start by Making It Possible
OpenEdge 10.0A
OpenEdge 10.0B
Phase II: Work on Making it Easier
OpenEdge 10.1A
Phase III: Then Automate It
The Future
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OpenEdge Phasing and Objectives
OpenEdge 10
For Any Capability…
Phase I: Start by Making It Possible
OpenEdge 10.0A
OpenEdge 10.0B
Phase II: Work on Making it Easier
OpenEdge 10.1A
Phase III: Then Automate It
The Future
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OpenEdge 10.1x:
Emphasis on Productivity
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Core services for business applications
Tools for Business Logic
Improvements in language productivity
Continued emphasis on Web services
Tools for Service Interface generation
Enhanced integration with Sonic
Renewed emphasis on thin client
Increased Open Client capabilities
Enhanced UI capabilities
Performance, performance, performance
Availability, scalability, reliability
Continued growth of SQL
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OpenEdge 10.1A
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OpenEdge® Architect
Object-Oriented Extensions to the 4GL (ABL)
Core Business Services – Auditing for OpenEdge®
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Language & UI
XML
ProDataSets
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Consuming Web services
Open Client
OpenEdge Connectivity to
SonicMQ®
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OpenEdge® RDBMS
OpenEdge® SQL
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Platforms & 64bit Support
Packaging & Installation
Diagnostics & Logging
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OpenEdge Architect
Simplifies Designing, Developing, and Testing
Open Edge Architect is an integrated development environment tailored
for building applications using an architected, business-logic centric
approach
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OpenEdge Architect Fundamentals
Tool
Eclipse Open Source
Platform
Tool
Tool
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Key Contents of OpenEdge Architect
 Project Based Development
 DB Navigator
 Meta Catalog
 T4BL (Tools for Business Logic)
OpenEdge
Architect
Meta
Catalog
Database
Navigator
Services
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OpenEdge Architect Meta Catalog
 Supports developers in analyzing the impact of
code changes - how code is related to other code
 Focuses on the needs of developers navigating
large amounts of code making up a complex
application
 Provides significant productivity benefits to
developers in their day-to-day work
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What are T4BL ?
Tools for Business Logic
 Visual design tools for the development of
business objects
• Business objects that represent data elements and
business logic that provide application functionality
 Tools to model business objects which can be
used to generate ABL application code
• Using T4BL component models
– ABL code can generated which can then be
used/reused in OpenEdge applications
 Supports the OpenEdge Reference Architecture
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Code/Model Development
Accommodate a wide range of development styles
Code written by hand can
easily be transformed into
visual model components
Text/Code Oriented
Visual/Graphically Oriented
Code-centric
Model-centric
Code/Model Development
Model components can be visually
edited and the code
elements will reflect the change
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Code/Model Round Trip
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Code can be created or
edited at any time
Code is not dependent
on a model
DEFINE TEMP-TABLE ttCust
LIKE Customer.
DEFINE TEMP-TABLE ttOrder LIKE Order.
DEFINE TEMP-TABLE ttOrdlin LIKE OrderLine.
DEFINE DATASET CustOrdLin FOR ttCust,ttOrder,ttOrdlin
DATA-RELATION Customer_Order FOR ttCust,ttOrder
RELATION-FIELDS (CustNum,CustNum)
DATA-RELATION Order_OrderLine FOR ttOrder,ttOrdlin
RELATION-FIELDS (OrderNum, OrderNum).
DEFINE INPUT PARAMETER NumCusts AS INTEGER.
DEFINE OUTPUT PARAMETER DATASET FOR CustOrdLin.
DEFINE OUTPUT PARAMETER sError
AS CHARACTER.
DEFINE DATA-SOURCE srcCust FOR Customer.
DEFINE DATA-SOURCE srcOrder FOR Order.
DEFINE DATA-SOURCE srcOline FOR Orderline.
BUFFER ttCust:ATTACH-DATA-SOURCE(DATA-SOURCE srcCust).
BUFFER ttOrder:ATTACH-DATA-SOURCE(DATA-SOURCE srcOrder).
BUFFER ttOrdlin:ATTACH-DATA-SOURCE(DATA-SOURCE srcOline).
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ttCust
Code elements can
be transformed into
model elements at
any time
ttOrderLin
CustNum:INTEGER
CustName:CHARACTER
Contact:CHARACTER
Country:CHARACTER
OrderNum:INTEGER
LineNum:INTEGER
ItemNum:INTEGER
Qty:DECIMAL
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ttOrder
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OrderNum:INTEGER
CustNum:INTEGER
OrderDate:DATE
ShipDate:DATE
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BUFFER ttCust:BATCH-SIZE = NumCusts.
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Models create structure
and code that can be edited
Based on Templates and
Rules
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Business Logic Tool Set
 Component Designer
• Graphical editor
• Used to create and edit components
 Application Schema Explorer
• Provides a view to efficiently locate building blocks
• Promotes reuse of code
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3rd Party Plug-ins
 Over 300 plug-ins available today
• Provides vast array of customization options
 Examples of available plug-ins include
• Modeling, SCM, Additional Languages
http://www.eclipse.org/community/
http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/
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3rd Party Plug-ins
http://www.eclipse.org/community/
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http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/
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Object-Oriented Extensions to the 4GL
Progress 4GL becomes
OpenEdge ABL (Advanced Business Language)
 A procedure-oriented and object-oriented
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language for next-generation business
applications
Blends the best of business-purposed 4GL and
object-oriented language features
• Procedure-orientation for easier process design
• Object-orientation for business object design &
reuse
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Object-Oriented Extensions
Promotes Reuse, Maintainability, and Robustness
Enabling developers to
model applications the
way they think about
them
- Encapsulating the data
and the operations that
manipulate it
Class: Order
PRIVATE:
ordNum AS INT
CalculatePrice ( )
PROTECTED:
CalculateTax ( )
PUBLIC:
InitOrder ( )
GetOrderTotal ( )
Class: InternalOrder INHERITS Order
PUBLIC:
GetOrderTotal ( )
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Object-Oriented Extensions
Promotes Reuse, Maintainability, and Robustness
“… have been designed to complement the 4GL, and
are meant to be combined and integrated with
‘traditional’ procedures, when it makes sense to do
so. The object-oriented enhancements extend the
core values of the 4GL, not replace them.”
 The OO Extensions support the concepts of
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Encapsulation
Inheritance
Polymorphism
Delegation
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A Logical Model
Encapsulation
Data Members
Methods
Inheritance
Interface
Subclass
Polymorphism
Delegation
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Core Business Services
– Auditing for OpenEdge®
OpenEdge 10.1 provides an Auditing Framework that
can supply an uninterrupted trail of an application
client’s access to its operations and data
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Low application impact
• Minimal, if any, application changes necessary
Application Access Auditing
• Full control over data and non-data events
Database Access Auditing
• Works for native and SQL access
• Create/Update/Delete, Schema changes, Utilities . . .
Secure access to audit logs
• Easy reporting and monitoring capabilities
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Core Business Services
– Auditing for OpenEdge®
High Performance Solution for “Who did what, when?”
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Guaranteed nonrepudiable audit trail
Only audits what is
needed
Relationally stored audit
data for easy reporting
Seamless access across
the ABL and SQL
EndUsers
Database
Privileged
Users
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Language Enhancements
… A language that is as powerful and easy to use
for SOA applications as the original language
was for host-based applications
 UNDO of *LOBS
 Parameter passing
 NUM-REFERENCES attribute
 Short-hand syntax for dynamic references
 DBTYPE evaluation by preprocessor
 Static Widget IDs
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Language - UI Enhancements
 XP Look
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Buttons with Labels
Buttons with Images
Rectangles
Browses
Resizable Windows Status Area
 Manifest file
• prowin32.exe.manifest
• prowc.exe.manifest
 New WINDOW-SYSTEM value
• MS-WINXP
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Language – XML Enhancements
 SAX Writer Object
• Allows Progress developers to stream XML,
significantly reducing memory requirements
• Supports the handling of very large XML
documents
 XML Schema Validation
• Allows the parser to validate XML documents to
the grammar rules described in the schema
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Language – ProDataSet Enhancements
 To/From XML Documents
 XML Related Attributes
 XML Schema to 4GL Tool
 Parameter Passing Enhancements
 ROW-UPDATE Event
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OpenEdge® RDBMS
 Multi-threaded utilities
 AI Management
 Availability features
 Replication Failback
 Log file format
 DBTool
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OpenEdge® SQL
 Performance
 Type 4 JDBC Driver
 J2EE/JTA
 Online Schema Changes
 Schema Management
 SQL99 Array Data Type
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Consuming Web services
 Improved Complex Data Support
• ProDataSet and Temp-Table
– Serialized as an XML document
– Deserialize XML document
 Analyzer will indicate if mapping is possible
 Unwrapped Wrapped Document Literal
• Simplified programming
– Multiple simple parameters easier to work with than
one complex document
• Improved interoperability with 4GL Web Services
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Open Client
 Java Service Data Objects
• “ProDataSets for Java”
 OpenAPI
• Run procedures on the AppServer without a proxy
• A set of classes used in place of generated proxies
– One set of classes for .NET Open Client
– One set of classes for Java Open Client
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OpenEdge Connectivity to SonicMQ®
Increased ease of use, robustness, and performance
– ensuring Sonic as the core integration choice
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Symbiotic Adapter for SonicMQ
• SonicMQ BrokerConnect
• SonicMQ ClientConnect
• SonicMQ ServerConnect
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Simplified Installation
New APIs to support for SonicMQ 6 features
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Client persistence
Fault tolerance
Service-based message selectors
Serialized connection objects
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Platforms & 64bit Support
Full support for 64bit platforms with 64bit r-code
 Native Linux 64bit Port
• Ported RedHat AS 3.0 Linux
• Certified SuSe Enterprise 9
 32bit & 64bit r-code
• UNIX/Linux customers need to decide….
– Portability Vs. Native 64bit
 Maintain Database & Network Portability
• Databases compatible between 32bit and 64bit
– 32bit created Databases work on 64bit platforms
• 32bit Clients can access 64bit Servers
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Packaging & Installation
 Packaging
• New Product
– OpenEdge Architect
• DVD media
• Samples moved to PDF CD
 Installation & Configuration
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Silent installs can be customized and embedded
Easier to update licenses
Skip on install
Help on install dialogs
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Diagnostics & Logging
 Diagnostic Tools
• User logging
 Logging
• New methods on LOG-MANAGER system handle
– CLOSE-LOG
– CLEAR-LOG
– WRITE-MESSAGE
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OpenEdge 10.1A
Summary & Questions
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OpenEdge® Architect
Object-Oriented Extensions to the 4GL (ABL)
Core Business Services – Auditing for OpenEdge®
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Language & UI
XML
ProDataSets
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Consuming Web services
Open Client
OpenEdge Connectivity to
SonicMQ®
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OpenEdge® RDBMS
OpenEdge® SQL
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Platforms & 64bit Support
Packaging & Installation
Diagnostics & Logging
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Driving towards Competitive Applications
Product Directions
10.0 - 10.1
Data Management
Auditing
Language
New data types
Servers
Web Services
UI
XP Look
Tools
OpenEdge Architect
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Fulfillment for Competitive Applications
Product Directions
10.0 - 10.1
10.1 and Beyond
Data Management
Data Management
Auditing
Scalability and Capacity
Language
Language
New data types
Servers
Complete the OO features
Servers
Web Services
UI
Easier Integration and SOA
User Interface
XP Look
New User Interface
Tools
OpenEdge Architect
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Tools
T4BL and UI Tools
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