•  Preface
  • Purpose
  • Audience
  • Prerequisite
  • Organization
  •  Using this manual
    • References to ABL compiler and run-time features
    • References to ABL data types
  •  Examples of syntax descriptions
    • Long syntax descriptions split across lines
    • Complex syntax descriptions with both required and optional elements
  • Example procedures
  •  OpenEdge messages
    • Obtaining more information about OpenEdge messages
  • Typographical conventions
•  Introducing OpenEdge Platform
  • Getting Help using the OpenEdge Knowledge Services Set
  • What is OpenEdge
  •  A comprehensive view of the components in OpenEdge
    • Advanced Business Language (ABL)
    • The ABL Virtual Machine (AVM)
    • Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge
    • OpenEdge RDBMS
    • OpenEdge DataServers
    • OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Explorer
    • Clients
    • OpenEdge AppServer
    • Pacific Application Server
    • OpenEdge Web Services
    • OpenEdge Business Process Management
  •  OpenEdge client-server process architecture
    • OpenEdge Servers
    • OpenEdge Client processes
•  Understanding OpenEdge Reference Architecture
  • An Overview of OpenEdge high-level application architecture
  •  OpenEdge Reference Architecture design principles and its usage
    • Recommended order for an OERA design
•  An overview of ABL
  •  What is ABL?
    • Basic Characteristics of ABL
  •  Understanding ABL Syntax
    • Statements
    • Comments
    • Blocks
    •  Programming Models
      • Procedure-driven and Event-driven Programming
      • Flow of Execution
    • Compile-time Versus Run-time Code
    •  Procedures
      • User-defined Functions
    • REPEAT, FOR, and DO Blocks
    • Looping
  •  Object-oriented programming with ABL
    • Understanding Object-oriented programming within ABL
    • Advantages of Object-oriented programming within ABL
  •  Object-Oriented Concepts Overview
    • Encapsulation
    • Inheritance
    • Delegation
    • Polymorphism
    • Method Overloading
    • Strong Typing
  •  Understanding the ABL Class-based model and its members
    • Constructor
    • Destructor
    • Data Members
    • Properties
    • Events
    • FINALLY End block Statement
    • Traditional Error-handling
    • Structured Error-handling
  •  Accessing Data
    • Data Types
    • Database Connections
    • Transactions
    • Temporary Tables (TEMP-TABLES)
    • ProDataSets
•  Configuring OpenEdge
  •  Understanding the RDBMS architecture
    • Logical Database
    • Physical Database
    • Broker
    • Server
    • Client
    • Background processes
  •  Reviewing environment variables
    •  System environment variables
      • Latest information updates
    •  Java environment variables
      • JDKHOME
  • Using the Proenv utility
  • Creating and configuring an OpenEdge database server
  • Working with AppServers
•  How to get started with Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge
  •  Starting Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge
    • Setting Eclipse startup preferences
    • Selecting a workspace
  •  Working with OpenEdge perspectives
    • Opening a perspective
    • Modifying a perspective
    • Setting a perspective to its default state
  •  Setting workspace preferences
    • Setting the default AVM startup parameters
    • Setting up a shared AVM
•  Creating your first ABL application
  • Creating a new AppServer project
  • Connecting the OpenEdge AppServer to the OpenEdge Database
  • Creating an ABL Procedure file for the Server
  • Creating an ABL Procedure file for the Client
  • Configuring the AppServer and associating the AppServer module
  • Running the client which accesses the ABL code running in the AppServer