Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Getting Started

Generating Initial Objects

After your Progress Dynamics development environment is properly set up, you can begin building an application. In the first stage of building an application with the framework, you import entity information from your application database and generate objects from that data. Afterwards, you can build an application by editing and combining these building blocks. The rapid generation of these starting building blocks is one of the advantages of developing in the framework.

This chapter provides instructions for importing information about the sample application database, DynSports, into your tutorial Repository. Then, it guides you through using the tools to generate objects from that data.

To help you understand more of what the framework does, additional explanatory information is interspersed within the tutorial steps. For more detailed information on these general types of tasks, see OpenEdge Development: Progress Dynamics Basic Development and OpenEdge Development: Progress Dynamics Advanced Development .

This chapter covers the following topics:

Logging in to the framework tools
Using the AppBuilder with Progress Dynamics
Connecting to the application database
Creating a new product and modules
Importing tables as entities into the Repository
Customizing the entity data
Generating application objects
Viewing your application objects