Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Getting Started:
Application and Integration Services

Benefits of building Web services using OpenEdge

The OpenEdge provides the most practical way to Web service-enable AppServer application services. OpenEdge supports Web services in full compliance with industry standards and adds capabilities that uniquely enable both existing and new AppServer application services to be accessed as Web services. Taken together, OpenEdge provides the benefits described in the following sections:

Support for industry standards
Language and platform independence
Opportunities for reusing Progress 4GL business logic
Standard, well-defined, and flexible client interface model
More consistent client development model