•  Preface
  • Purpose
  • Audience
  • Organization
  •  Using this manual
    • References to ABL compiler and run-time features
    • References to ABL data types
  • Typographical conventions
  •  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
•  What's New in 11.6
  • Installation and platform support
  • Startup parameters
  •  OpenEdge ABL enhancements
    • Enumerated types
    • Reflection
    • Serializing classes to binary and JSON formats
    • New attributes and startup parameters for parsing XML
    • Single-line comments
    • Additional information from XREF and XREF-XML options of COMPILE
    • RadForm subclasses in GUI for .NET
  • OpenEdge RDBMS
  • OpenEdge Replication
  • Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge
  • WebSpeed support in Pacific Application Server for OpenEdge
  • Data Object Services and OpenEdge Mobile support
  • OpenEdge Server Technology
  • OpenEdge Business Process Management
  • OpenEdge SQL
  • OpenEdge DataServers
  • OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Explorer
•  11.6 Feature Comparisons
  • WebSpeed administration differences and migration issues
  • Data Object Service terminology and URI differences
•  Release 11.6 Documentation
  • Changes to the documentation set
  • Accessing OpenEdge documentation
  • Release 11.6 documentation set