Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Debugging and Troubleshooting

Objects created and deleted implicitly

OpenEdge creates and deletes some objects implicitly. This means the 4GL application does not explicitly have a CREATE or DELETE OBJECT statement for the object. An example of implicit object creation is a SOCKET object, which OpenEdge creates when it receives a Connect event on a SERVER-SOCKET. In this case, the log entry contains the word IMPLICIT. OpenEdge creates the following object types implicitly:

ASYNC-REQUEST.
BUFFER (that is, the default buffer of a dynamic query).
SOAP-HEADER (also can be created explicitly).
SOAP-HEADER-ENTRYREF.
SOCKET.
TEMP-TABLE (an INPUT or OUTPUT TABLE-HANDLE parameter).
X-DOCUMENT.

An example of implicit object deletion is when OpenEdge destroys an object during the course of destroying its object pool. In this case, the log entry contains the word POOLDEL.