Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Application Server:
Developing AppServer Applications

Design and Implementation Considerations

This chapter highlights specific performance, transaction management, deployment, security internationalization issues related to planning and implementing a distributed application with AppServer. It explains some programming techniques, especially those commonly used by both Progress 4GL client and AppServer procedures, to help you write distributed applications, as described in the following sections.

The topics include:

Primary performance considerations
Secondary performance considerations
Transaction and record management considerations
Deployment considerations
Security considerations
Multi-language support
Distributed application design and implementation

This chapter assumes that you are familiar with all previous chapters, especially Chapter 1, "AppServer and Client Interaction," and Chapter 2, " Programming the AppServer."