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.
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.
A hackathon team enhanced Wayfare’s OpenEdge-based Deblur tool by using Progress Agentic RAG to suggest which database fields should be anonymized from GDPR guidance, cutting manual effort while keeping humans in control for compliance.
OpenEdge 13.0 is an innovation release that helps teams modernize OpenEdge applications to be more secure and AI-ready by boosting developer productivity (ABL and IDE upgrades), improving DBA operations (faster backups/diagnostics), and strengthening compliance-focused security controls (including FIPS 140-3 support).