Templates are the basis for new source code elements. When you use the menu to create a new resource, or when you right-click in the
ABL Editor and use the Source submenu,
an underlying template determines the content of the file that is generated.
Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge provides standard templates for the files and code
segments available from these menus. You can create your own templates and use the
Customization Editor to change the installed options as follows:
- You can add options to the menu. For each template that you add, Progress Developer Studio for
OpenEdge automatically creates a menu entry and a corresponding wizard. When the
entry is chosen, the wizard generates a new file containing the custom code.
- You can override the standard templates used by the wizards launched from the menu or the Source submenu. The wizards then
generate code based on your custom templates instead of the standard ones.
- You can associate the templates to custom project types.
Note: You must have access to the JET templates that you use and they must be in your
Java class path. On the
Customization preferences page, you can easily add template directories
to your class path.
Information resources for JET templates
The following are some useful sources of information about templates: