Progress Academy for OpenEdge Live

Introduction to distributed computing

• Building and accessing distributed logic (key to modernisation)
• Intro to classic Progress OpenEdge AppServer
• Intro to Progress Application Server for OpenEdge (PASOE)

Using ProDataSets

• Understanding ProDataSets
• Defining and building ProDataSets
• Using ProDataSets in distributed environments
• ProDataSet events and callbacks
• ProDataSet error handling

Intro to ABL Object-Oriented Programming

• Defining the parts of an ABL class
• Constructors and destructor
• Access data members and call methods
• Work with class instances
• Testing classes using procedures
• Testing classes with ABLUnit
• Introduction to Progress Developer Studio for OE for GUI for .Net

Week two closing exercise

Intro to the OpenEdge Reference Architecture (OERA)

Developing an OERA application

• Developing a data-access object
• Use of structured error handling
• Working with the ABLUnit test framework
• Creating a business entity

OpenEdge Integration

• Exposing an ABL application to external applications
• Enabling an ABL application to access external applications
• Architecture and high-level steps to implement each integration option

Building Progress OpenEdge Apps as REST Web Apps

• Introduction to REST in Progress OpenEdge
• Providing a Progress OpenEdge ABL Application as a REST Web Application

Building Progress OpenEdge Apps as REST Data Object

• Progress OpenEdge Web App Architecture
• Creating Progress Data Object Services
• Developing Business Entities for OE Data Object Services
• Testing Data Object services using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)

Building web apps

• Accessing OpenEdge REST services
• Definition of data providers and sources
• Creating App modules
• Creating and testing views
• Integration with Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge

Week three ending celebrations