The Kendo UI® Builder by Progress® facilitates the modernization of existing Progress® OpenEdge® desktop business applications by moving the application user interface (UI) to the web using Kendo UI. These OpenEdge applications can be simple to more complex applications containing multiple, feature-specific modules. Applications that already conform to the OpenEdge Reference Architecture (OERA) are especially well suited for modernization using the Kendo UI Builder. However, you can modernize any OpenEdge application with its UI separated from its business logic running on an OpenEdge application server, which can be either an instance of Progress Application Server for OpenEdge or the classic Progress® OpenEdge® AppServer®.
Kendo UI Builder tooling supports the design and development of a modern and responsive web UI in the form of a deployable OpenEdge web app that accesses one or more ABL application services implemented as OpenEdge Data Object Services. This tooling supports UI upgrades for future versions of the initial web app over time, with little or no additional coding, using customizable templates and meta-data from which the deployable web app is generated.
Steps to modernize an OpenEdge application