New and Noteworthy in Release 11.5

Release 11.5 contains Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge updates to provide the following features:

ABLDoc support

With this release, Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge supports generating ABLDoc documentation using the new Generate ABLDoc wizard or by using a custom ABLDoc Ant task.

You can generate ABLDoc documentation for the following source codes:

For more information, see the ABL Editor help.

Progress Application Server integration

Progress Application Server is a platform that provides Web server support for Progress applications. Progress applications are packaged as Web application archives (WAR files) and deployed to the Java Servlet Container of a running instance of PAS. Client access to a PAS is through HTTP/HTTPS protocols. Clients include (but are not limited to) browser-based applications and Mobile Apps.

Progress Application Server for OpenEdge is a Web application server based on the Apache Tomcat Web server and servlet container. Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge now provides an environment to add Progress Application Server for OpenEdge instances to the Servers view. You can also control the state of a Progress Application Server for OpenEdge and deploy applications onto a Progress Application Server that is configured and selected in the Servers view.

For more information, see the Progress Application Server for OpenEdge help.

Support for creating partitioned tables

Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge now lets you to create a partitioned table (with local indexes) without any partition policies defined on it. This support is only available to a connected OpenEdge database that is enabled for table partitioning. After creating the partitioned table, you can use OpenEdge Management, OpenEdge Explorer, or OpenEdge SQL to define partition policies on it.

For more information, see the DB Navigator help.

Support for exporting Mobile Apps as debug binary or release binary files

With this release, Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge lets you set the Mobile App Builder properties to export a Mobile App as a release binary or a debug binary file. You can also set the properties to select the platform and specify the target in which you want to build the Mobile App.

For more information, see the Mobile help.

Support for new mapping definitions in REST Resource URI Editor

The Mapping Definitions section of the REST Resource URI Editor has been updated to include a new Content-Type header in the Input and Output tabs. The Output tab also includes a new Constants node, under the Advanced node, which can be used to add a constant (like application/myApp+json) and map it to the Content-Type header.