Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Basic Development

Standard components

Progress Dynamics strives to provide you with standard predefined solutions to requirements found in most serious applications. These solutions spare you from having to solve the same business and technical problems most applications need to address. These solutions include tools to:

Define users and security.
Build user interface components in standard styles.
Communicate data and program requests between a stand-alone client and one or more AppServer sessions.
Define and manage the physical and logical configuration of a distributed application.
Define and properly log or display application messages.
Translate a user interface into multiple languages.

Every OpenEdge® application for an enterprise needs these supporting features. If you start with the Progress Dynamics framework, you can focus immediately on your application’s particular business problems without reinventing the supporting features.

These standard features, and in particular the Repository that supports them, make Progress Dynamics-based applications truly “Future Proof™.” An application you design, develop, and deploy today can migrate to other platforms, including unanticipated ones, without major rearchitecting.

For example, in the future you might be able to migrate a 4GL WebClient user interface working with the Progress Dynamics managers and application business logic on the back-end to any browser-based front-end with little extra effort.