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Introducing OpenEdge 10.2A

At Progress, we understand that no matter what size your business is, managing corporate data is no easy feat. Corporate compliance, government regulations, and the demands of the economy are a few business drivers that contribute to the increase of data proliferation. What businesses need today is a robust technology platform that enables them to scale and manage their business as they are confronted with complex data management issues.

The Progress OpenEdge platform is designed to address a simple premise— business applications must be easy to construct, easy to enhance, and require minimal resources to operate. We believe that development is simplified dramatically, greater resource efficiency is achieved, and operational efforts are minimized by using a unified platform designed specifically for transactional business applications— the kind of mission-critical applications that run businesses all around the world every day.

Progress Software is proud to announce the release of OpenEdge 10.2A. Enhancements and new features are in 3 areas.

In the platform area, 10.2A reinforces our theme of openness by offering:

  • An industry-standard .NET front end right out of the box
    • The new OpenEdge GUI for .NET provides a standard, contemporary look and feel while being powered by our state of the art Advanced Business Language (ABL).

  • Features that advance our SOA offering
    • This includes improved handle methods for reading and writing XML with ProDataSets, thus helping to reduce file sizes and ease network congestion.

In the development area, we continue to increase the productivity of our development tools by enhancing the OpenEdge Architect (OEA) with:

  • A new Visual Designer
    • This feature allows the developer to visually create the UI from OpenEdge Architect. It provides a WYSIWYG editor for building applications providing drag-and-drop support for .NET controls onto a design canvas, as well as a property grid for associating events and controlling properties.

  • An extension of class browser support for .NET classes
    • This feature allows you to see details about all your .NET resources, namespaces and types. These details come from the assemblies that are associated with the workspace and are also available for any external resources you add to the Class Browser.

  • ABL Editor changes
    • In 10.2A, the ABL Editor includes a number of productivity enhancements including certain associated wizards and dialogs, new views and UI features.

In the operations and management area, we continue to improve our efficiency by eliminating migration barriers and streamlining object reuse. For example, 10.2A support includes:

  • An updated OpenEdge Adapter for SonicMQ
  • Connection file support has been expanded to include a number of additional connection type parameters.
  • Connect ID support has also been improved with a pair of new APIs.
  • An enhanced DataServer for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server
  • Support has been added for the datetime data type in the DataServer for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Also, support is now available for the CLOB data type in the DataServer for Oracle.
  • ABL and object-oriented programming enhancements
  • A number of new features have been incorporated including support for accessing .NET objects, creating and using .NET forms and controls, .NET type and resource management and error handling, automatic garbage collection, and array enhancements.