Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge and Progress Corticon Studio are standalone Eclipse-based development environments that can be integrated into a single Eclipse instance to use the capabilities of integrated business rules in Progress OpenEdge. Progress Corticon is a Business Rules Management System. Its patented "no-coding" rules engine automates sophisticated decision processes. It provides the simple yet powerful Corticon Decision Services Methodology for modeling business rules.
Integrating OpenEdge and Corticon enables you to use ABL data structures (such as ProDataSets and temp-tables) as Corticon data structures (Vocabularies and entities). OpenEdge business rules provide tooling support for creating and updating Corticon Vocabularies, and runtime support for simple invocation of Corticon Decision Services.
You can use the integrated environment of Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge and Corticon Studio to do the following:
Use a Business Rules server to perform some or all of the business logic from an ABL client
Re-use the existing business logic data structures (ProDataSets and/or temp-tables) with a Business Rules server without modification
Generate output from a Business Rules server easily, using ABL data structures, instead of XML
Generate a resource containing ProDataSet and temp-table schema information from an ABL source code
Create ABL source code from a resource containing ProDataSet and temp-table schema information
Import Corticon Vocabulary from a resource containing ProDataSet or temp-table schema information
Export Corticon Vocabulary to a resource
Test an OpenEdge application containing both ABL and Corticon business logic from within Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge
Create a single project in Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge containing both ABL and Corticon artifacts
Use a Business Rules server to perform some or all of the business logic from an ABL client
