Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Getting Started:
Application and Integration Services

> ## Benefits of building Web services using OpenEdge

> The OpenEdge provides the most practical way to Web service-enable AppServer application services. OpenEdge supports Web services in full compliance with industry standards and adds capabilities that uniquely enable both existing and new AppServer application services to be accessed as Web services. Taken together, OpenEdge provides the benefits described in the following sections:

> - Support for industry standards

> - Language and platform independence

> - Opportunities for reusing Progress 4GL business logic

> - Standard, well-defined, and flexible client interface model

> - More consistent client development model

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