Creating a server

Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge provides the New Server wizard using which you can define a Business Process Server along with its connection and login details.

To create a server:

1. From the File menu, select New > Other to launch the New wizard.

2. Select Server > Server and click Next. The New Server wizard appears.

Note: Alternatively, right-click in the Project Explorer view, then select New > Server to launch the New Server wizard.

3. From the Define a New Server page of the New Server wizard, select Progress Software Corporation > Progress OpenEdge Business Process Server and configure the server properties, as described in Table 61.

Table 61. Server properties
Property	Description
Server's host name	For Progress Business Process Sever, the server host name is set to “localhost”. You can specify a name or IP address of the server, located on the local or remote machine.
Server name	Modify (if required) the server name. The name is displayed for this server in the Servers view.
Server runtime environment	This field appears only if you have added a server runtime environment in the Preferences dialog box (see Adding server runtime environment). You can select from the available options in the drop-down list provided. To add a server environment, click Add to open the Progress OpenEdge Business Process Server wizard page, which you can use to define a different server name and location. You can also configure the available runtime environments by clicking Configure runtime environments to open the Servers Runtime Environments dialog box.

4. Click Next to open the Progress OpenEdge Business Process Server page. This page appears only if you have not added a server runtime environment in the Preferences dialog box (see Adding server runtime environment).

Note: The Progress OpenEdge Business Process Server page is disabled if you have specified a remote server in the previous page.

a. In the Runtime environment name box, modify (if required) the default server name.

b. In the Server location box, enter the full path of the Business Process Server location, or click Browse to select the folder location.

5. Click Next to open the Progress OpenEdge Business Process Server page, in which you can set (or modify) the Business Process Server connection information.

Table 62 describes the server connection properties with default values retrieved from the specified Business Process Server installation.

Table 62. Server connection properties
Property	Description
Host name	(Read-only) The host name of the specified Business Process Server.
Http port	The default value is set to 18793. You can modify the server port number, if required.
URL	(Read-only) Concatenates the Host name and Http port values. Indicates the URL of the server location where all the processes are published.
User name/ Password	To enter the user name and password to connect to the specified server. The default value is "ebms" for both user name and password.

6. Click Next to open the Add and Remove page, in which you can add (or remove) the project modules to be configured on this server.

This page displays the list of project modules in the Available section, which you can add to the Configured section. You can perform the following operations:

To add a specific project module from the Available section, select the project module and click Add to add it to the Configured section.

To add all project modules listed in the Available section to the Configured section, click Add All.

To remove a specific project module from the Configured section, select the project module and click Remove.

To remove all project modules listed in the Configured section, click Remove All.

7. Click Finish. The defined server and its configured project modules are displayed in the Servers view. For information on operations in the Servers view, see Opening Servers view.

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Adding server runtime environment