Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Basic Development

Goals

The goals of the Progress Dynamics prescription are two-fold:

The framework provides the best possible head start for OpenEdge® application developers looking to bring competitive and complete applications to market quickly. It supplies an understandable structure within which you can create these custom applications.
The framework provides a common body of work that can contain the contributions of many developers. If developers from all over work together to share commonly useful code and ideas in all areas of application development, then all developers can move forward more quickly and effectively. It provides a far more effective development solution than allowing developers working in isolation to solve the same problems over and over again.

In short, maximizing the standard behavior available to all applications, creating a structure that easily supports writing and organizing custom code, and providing a community for improving the base functionality, are the means for creating a large and successful body of applications.