OpenEdge Architect
Spend More Time Working in Ways That Will Add Value to Your Business
Progress® OpenEdge® Architect is an integrated development environment that will help you quickly build business logic, manage application data sources, and to seamlessly test and deploy code. With OpenEdge Architect, 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.
The Progress® OpenEdge® Architect integrated development environment is designed to address the unique challenges developers face today, and support forward-thinking development. OpenEdge Architect helps developers quickly build business logic, manage application data sources, and to seamlessly test and deploy code and provides an open and extensible toolset to enhance productivity. This project-based development environment offers an intuitive directory hierarchy assuring that you stay in sync as your projects evolve.
OpenEdge Architect simplifies the developer's life by providing a fully configurable workspace with role-based views on the software development artifacts. Whether you are an architect, developer, or DBA, you can easily configure and access a palette of task appropriate tools without ever leaving the OpenEdge Architect workspace. If you play all three roles, you can easily move from one view to another, thus eliminating the difficulty of mastering multiple development environments. Simply put, OpenEdge Architect is the most complete and diversified integrated development platform of its kind for building and managing service-oriented business applications.
The OpenEdge Architect development environment provides an Eclipse-based workspace that is easily configurable for role-based views. By leveraging this standards-based platform, OpenEdge Architect joins an expanding ecosystem of software development tools.
- Simplifies the more complex aspects of writing software
- Automates mundane tasks so 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
Here are some OpenEdge Architect features that will enable you to create robust and future-proof applications:
- Built on Eclipse, the open source platform for building software development tools
- Template drive 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 allows 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
OpenEdge Architect is supported on the following platform:
-Windows
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