Results architecture and application development
From a programming perspective, an understanding of the open and flexible architecture of Results is crucial for success. Most programming activities in Results center around integration points and features. Figure 3–1 shows these integration points and features.
As previously discussed in Chapter 1, "Results for Administrators and Programmers,"an integration point is a processing point used to initialize or configure Results for security or site requirements. Results performs default processing at these points. You can override the default processing at an integration point by associating an integration procedure with the integration point. An integration procedure is a Progress 4GL procedure and a feature is a functional unit in the Results product. Results comes with a set of predefined features that implement the core functionality of the product. You can define your own features and add them to the Results menu system or toolbar, or call them from another feature.