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