Integrated Development Environment

Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge, formerly OpenEdge Architect, is an integrated development environment that will help you quickly build business logic, access business process management (BPM) tools, manage application data sources, and seamlessly test and deploy code. With Developer Studio for OpenEdge, developers gain an open and extensible toolset to further enhance their productivity. Its project-based development environment offers an intuitive directory hierarchy assuring that you stay in sync as your projects evolve.

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Benefits
Key Capabilities

Key benefits of Developer Studio for OpenEdge:

Simplifies the more complex aspects of writing software
Automates mundane tasks so the developer can spend time focusing on creating business logic
Makes it easy to access and configure task-appropriate tools in a single environment
Lowers development and ongoing management costs
Reduces the potential for error that can occur when manually writing code

Key features that will enable you to create robust and future-proof applications:

Built on Eclipse, the open source platform for building software development tools based upon role-based views
Template-driven code generation
Automated cataloging exhaustively interrogates and indexes the application code
Metadata-driven impact analysis determines the impact of code changes and how code is related to other code
Source code history tracking aids the developer with robust auditing capabilities
Integrated debugger makes it easy to debug and test-run an application
Database navigation view shows the schema, files, indexes descriptions of elements and the data in the database – even while debugging
Context-sensitive programming dynamically provides automatic formatting and quote completion of ABL code, reducing development time and syntax errors