Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Basic Development

Progress Dynamics framework

Progress Dynamics is a comprehensive, Repository-based framework for Progress 4GL developers building new distributed applications or migrating existing applications to take advantage of new OpenEdge® technologies.

A Progress Dynamics application has many different types of components. Some of these components provide support for the user interface, such as:

Windows.
Tab folders.
Menu bars and toolbars.
Browsers (display query results and allow record selection).
Viewers or frames (display or update a single record).

Other components are procedural objects that define the business logic of an application.

Most Progress Dynamics components are data-driven objects, created at run time from data in the Progress Dynamics Object Repository. Progress Dynamics labels these objects as dynamic. A Progress Dynamics application can also include procedural components from the Progress 4GL and ADM SmartObjects. Progress Dynamics labels these objects static, since they are based on static code files (.p, .w, and so on).