DEV2: Making OpenEdge Architect Work For You

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DEV-2 Making OpenEdge Architect Work For You
David Lund
Product Readiness
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Questions, Questions, Questions
Introducing OpenEdge Architect to new users

• What if you could get started today
• Improving the development process
• Improving productivity
• All while working with the code and tools you
  know and love

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Enhancing Your Tools!
Bottom line You are simply adding more tools to
your toolbox
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Getting Started Today!

• How would your life change
• Setting up and sharing your workspace and
  projects
• Trading file chaos for workspace order
• Using your new tools
• Trading modal tools for modeless perspectives
• Increasing your productivity
• Making it easier to find code
• Making sure you dont lose your changes

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Trading File Chaos for Workspace Order

• Organizing physical files (a.k.a. resources)
• Into logical workspaces and projects

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Why Have Multiple Workspaces?

• Because you have
• Different applications
• Different releases
• Different environments
• Development
• Testing
• Deployment

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You Can Customize YOUR Workspace
Setting Workspace Preferences
Logical view
Workspace
Project
Folder
Files
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Why Have Multiple Projects in a Workspace?

• Many projects with different behavior and
  function can co-exist in the same workspace
• How to structure projects?
• By module
• By application layer
• (server side, client side, common code)
• By different client types
• By database access

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You Can Customize YOUR Projects!
Setting project properties
Logical view
Workspace
Project
Folder
Files
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Reducing New Developers Setup
Exporting and importing projects
Properties
Logical view
Workspace
Databases
Project
Folder
Files
Project
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Setting up and sharing your workspace and
projects

• Migrating your existing application
• Keep your existing directory structure
• Set your PROPATH
• Set your database connections
• Compile and run your code
• Export projects for use by others

Recorded demos available on PSDN with Exchange
materials
See the 2 hour session on PSDN titled Moving to
OpenEdge Architect which covers all of the basic
features
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Working with a Basic Application
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Trading Modal Tools for Modeless Perspectives
Using Perspective and Views
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How Will it Increase Your Productivity?
From Your Point of View

• Perspectives
• Progress DB Navigator
• OpenEdge Tools for Business Logic
• OpenEdge Editor
• OpenEdge Debugger
• OpenEdge AppBuilder

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Working with Database Structure AND Data
Progress DB Navigator Perspective
SQL Editor
DB Structure
Connection Information
Connections
DB Details - Preview
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Modeling ProDataSets and Temp Tables
OpenEdge Tools for Business Logic Perspective
Properties
Component Designer
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Getting More Details While Editing Your Business
Logic
OpenEdge Editor Perspective
OpenEdge Workbench
Editor
Resource view
DB Structure View
Task view
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Debugging Your Code with Eclipse Standard
OpenEdge Debugger Perspective
Open programs
Current line of execution
Breakpoint
Selected line
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Adding to the Tools You Already Know
OpenEdge AppBuilder Perspective
AppBuilder Designer
Design Windows
OpenEdge Editor Capabilities available to
AppBuilder users
Visual and Code changes are synchronized
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Using Your New Tools
A quick tour

• Trading modal tools for modeless perspectives
• DB Navigator
• T4BL
• Editor
• Debugger
• AppBuilder

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Finding what you need when you need it
Maximizing your productivity

• Locating information
• On-line customizable help
• Cheat sheets
• Search dialog and Search view
• Meta Catalog
• Class Browser

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Making Sure You Dont Lose Your Changes

• Recovery options in addition to source code
  control
• Quick Diff
• Local History

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Increasing Your Productivity

• Working with code
• Working groups
• Locating resource
• (Ctrl-Shift-R)
• Hyper link navigation
• (Ctrl-Click)
• Link with Resource view
• Last edited program
• Recently opened program navigation
• Bookmarks and Tasks

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Features by Release
OpenEdge 10.1C
OpenEdge 10.1B

• Streamlined database connections
• Import/Export database connections
• Eclipse based debugger
• Cheat sheets
• Customization editor

• General usability improvements
• New ABL language support
• ESB annotations

OpenEdge Getting Started New and Revised Features
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Adding Additional Functionality (Plugins)
One active design Workbench provides access to
many
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Coming in OpenEdge 10.2A OpenEdge Visual Designer
Perspective
OpenEdge Visual Designer Perspective
Resources view
Properties view
Toolbox
Design Canvas
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Whats All the Fuss?
Everything available in one place (2 2 5)
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For More Information - Go To PSDN

• Moving to OpenEdge Architect
• http//www.psdn.com/library/entry!default.jspa?ex
  ternalID2372
• The OpenEdge Architect Experience
• http//www.psdn.com/library/entry!default.jspa?ex
  ternalID4092
• OpenEdge Architect Fully Loaded
• http//www.psdn.com/library/entry!default.jspa?ex
  ternalID3778

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Getting Access to the Code Samples
http//www.psdn.com/library/entry!default.jspa?ext
ernalID2372
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PSDN Forums
PSDN top level list of forums
http//www.psdn.com/library/forumindex.jspa?catego
ryID1
Forum on OpenEdge Architect Eclipse
http//www.psdn.com/library/forum.jspa?forumID25
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Related Exchange Sessions

• DEV-10 Integrating OpenEdge Architect into your
  Development Environment
• Tuesday 800 AM Grand Ballroom A
• DEV-21 Embracing OpenEdge Architect
• Tuesday 200 PM Grand Ballroom G
• DEV-34 Writing own plugins for OpenEdge
  Architect a developers experience
• Wednesday 915 AM Grand Ballroom H

Tonight! Birds of a Feather (BOF) OpenEdge
Architect 700 PM in Grand Ballroom C-D
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In Summary
Making OpenEdge Architect work for you

• Its easy to get started
• No need to disrupt current development
  environment during transition
• Feature rich group development tools

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Questions
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Thank You
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