Data Object Services

This chapter provides an overview of OpenEdge Data Objects, which are server-side objects that allow remote clients to access OpenEdge data and operations over the Internet using an RPC model that is both simplified and natural for the client implementation language, and provides an overview of Data Object Services, which are specially configured REST Web services that provide client access to Data Objects using either the Progress Application Server for OpenEdge (PAS for OpenEdge) or a generic Tomcat Web server with access to the classic OpenEdge AppServer. This chapter also describes the requirements for creating OpenEdge Data Objects and Services, and introduces the OpenEdge tools available to accelerate their development.