Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Basic Development

Preparing to Build Application Objects

The biggest single step in actually creating your Progress Dynamics-based application is generating your base application objects. The Object Generator creates SmartDataObjects (SDOs) to manage queries and to stream data between server and client, logic procedures to provide a place to enter table-specific business logic, DataFields to provide object capabilities to database fields, dynamic browsers to display that data in client applications, and dynamic viewers to display and update individual records. The application you get from the Object Generator will not be complete by any means, but it will give you a big head start in creating at least the data maintenance windows for your application tables. The Object Generator is described in detail in Chapter 5, " Using the Object Generator."

Before you get to that step, however, you must do some setup work to prepare your environment and to define a structure for your application, as explained in the following sections:

Obtaining and assigning site numbers
Defining products and product modules
Creating Repository data for tables and fields