Web Application Development Best Practices with Progress OpenEdge
June 15, 2024
Discover nine web app development best practices to help you build successful applications and explore expert tips and strategies for coding, security and UX.
The blog recaps a webinar showing how Progress’s OpenEdge Managed Database Administration team uses proactive monitoring and deep OpenEdge expertise to quickly resolve hidden performance issues, guide PAS for OpenEdge transitions, and execute low‑downtime database/platform migrations.
This blog post explains modern GenAI concepts for OpenEdge developers—how models work (and differ by purpose), why prompting and token limits matter, how RAG grounds answers in your real documentation, and how assistants differ from agents that use tools to iterate toward a goal.
This post introduces GenAI concepts for OpenEdge developers and proposes a safety-first approach where AI helps with language-heavy tasks (explain/summarize/draft/extract) while OpenEdge remains the system of record for validation, business rules, and transactions.
Progress Agentic RAG, paired with the OpenEdge MCP Server, helps OpenEdge-based ISVs unlock and reason over decades of structured and unstructured application knowledge through secure, governed AI actions—delivering fast, grounded insights without rewriting trusted code.