Web Services Development
Competitive Enterprises Are Focused on Web Services Development
Web services development is an increasingly important aspect of enterprise competitiveness. As the business world grows more interconnected and more business services are provided over the Internet, the quality and responsiveness of Web applications will help an enterprise maintain or increase market share. But the world of Internet application development is constantly evolving, and to keep up the enterprise must have the tools to more easily manage the creation, deployment and integration of new applications. For leading enterprises around the globe, Progress OpenEdge provides superior tools for Web services development.
Progress® OpenEdge® Offers Leading Web Services Development Solution
Progress OpenEdge offers competitive enterprises the most flexible, reliable and integrated platform for business applications available today. The OpenEdge product line is an integrated suite of solutions for developing, deploying, integrating and managing solutions more efficiently, delivering greater return on investment. A key component of OpenEdge, WebSpeed® Workshop offers an innovative environment for developing Web services applications. Balancing productivity with flexibility, WebSpeed Workshop enables developers to create mult-page Internet Transaction Processing (ITP) programs with little or no coding, dramatically reducing the time it takes for development while preserving the ability to customize programs when necessary. Developers can create applications while connected to a Web server and the WebSpeed Transaction Server, a robust server for deploying ITP applications with high availability, greater scalability and rapid response rates. By performing Web services development in the environment that the application will run in, developers can minimize surprises, bugs and test/fix/test cycles.
Proven Tools Help Streamline Development of New Web Services
OpenEdge provides developers with a powerful set of tools for more efficient Web services development.
- ABL is a specialized language for developing business application logic. Developers can quickly prototype, develop and maintain Web applications, taking advantage of reusable business logic, database access, and an Eclipse-based IDE to build sophisticated Web services applications.
- OpenEdge allows developers to swiftly create complex application interfaces using high-productivity tools for mapping HTML and integrating database information.
- OpenEdge Architect allows developers to work more efficiently by using an intuitive interface to write code, view database schema information, check syntax and monitor the server environment.
Progress also provides business integration software, solutions for software architecture, and a development environment incorporating an Eclipse plugin that is a powerful alternative to VB6 development.
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