Welcome to the OpenEdge 11 Developer learning path. This path includes tracks to help you grow your developer skills from basic to advanced. You can practice the concepts taught in each course with hands-on exercises, complete with step-by-step guidance and solutions. You can assess your knowledge with in-course Check Your Understanding questions. You can also demonstrate your skills with assessment exams for key courses.
See a visual representation of this learning path here: https://documentation.progress.com/output/edu-rblp/OEDev-Catalog.html#oe11_dev
OpenEdge ABL Application Development Core: In this track, new developers are introduced to Progress OpenEdge and its core concepts and tools, including the Progress OpenEdge Developer Studio, the Progress Application Server for OpenEdge, and the Progress OpenEdge Reference Architecture. You can also learn about the Progress Advanced Business Language (ABL), Progress Software Corporation’s proprietary language designed for developing business applications. It is a high-level language that supports procedural, dynamic, and object-oriented programming. You learn how to develop an OpenEdge application using Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge. You also learn how to incrementally develop an application that utilizes OERA design principles and how to write code using recognized best practices.
Technology Jumpstart: In this track, experienced developers continue their journey by learning to identify when and where to use datasets and then practice incorporating datasets into applications during hands-on exercises using Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge. You learn how to define, populate, and perform data operations using datasets and then share data with other applications. You also learn how to use the object-oriented capabilities of Progress OpenEdge ABL. You are introduced to key features of Progress’ object-oriented ABL, how to develop and test classes, and how to further develop an application by applying object-oriented programming features such as inheritance, interface classes, singletons, dynamic instances, and events.
Modernizing an OpenEdge application: In this track, back-end ABL developers learn how to create Data Object Service and develop business entities. Front-end developers learn how to develop a Web app and customize the view in Progress Kendo UI Builder.
Integration: In this track, developers are introduced to Progress integration, as well as providing OpenEdge applications as a REST web application. You also learn how to access a REST service from a Progress ABL application.
Special topics: In this track, developers can learn how to use Progress Corticon Business Rules in a Progress OpenEdge application. You can also learn how to build an OpenEdge multi-tenant application and access data in partitioned tables.
