Release 11.7 contains Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge updates to provide the following features:
New OpenEdge Project wizard—The interface for the OpenEdge Project wizard has changed. The Create an OpenEdge Project page now displays Server, Client, and General categories for project type selection. Do one of the following:
To create a project for the back-end development of the application, select the Server category from the left section of the page. Select the server type that you want to deploy the services to and the transport type that you want to use for deploying the application.
To create a project for the front-end development of the application, select the Client category from the left section of the page. Select the Desktop Application or the Web Application option button to create a project for a desktop application or a web application respectively and select one of the project types.
To create a basic, ABLUnit, Dynamics, or custom OpenEdge project, select the General category from the left section of the page.
Note: If you do not select a category (Client, Server, or General) and click Finish, a basic OpenEdge project without any specialization is created.
Debugger support—You can now use the Debug Configurations wizard to debug ABLUnit and Progress Application Server for OpenEdge.
Log Viewer—The Log Viewer helps you to view and monitor the log files of a PAS for OpenEdge server instance from the Servers view. There are multiple log files for a server, you can choose to go to the directory where the log files are saved and manually search for errors, or view from Developer Studio using the Log Viewer.
ANT tasks for Progress Application Server for OpenEdge—You can write custom ANT tasks to package ABL Web App and Web UI projects and to generate a Data Object Service Catalog file.
Migration of Spring Security files—If you imported an ABL Web App project from OpenEdge 11.6 to the current release in the Developer Studio, you can also migrate the Spring Security files.
Infragistics controls upgrade—The Infragistics controls are upgraded to version 16.2.20162.2040.
Telerik UI for WinForms controls upgrade—The Telerik UI for WinForms controls that installs by default is upgraded to R3 2016 SP1(2016.3.1024). If you need a different version, you can download it from the Telerik web site.
Eclipse version update—Eclipse version has been updated to 4.5.2.
New OpenEdge Project wizard—The interface for the OpenEdge Project wizard has changed. The Create an OpenEdge Project page now displays Server, Client, and General categories for project type selection. Do one of the following: