OpenEdge Architect Rules! AppBuilder is Dead

OpenEdge Architect Rules!OpenEdge Architect Rules!AppBuilder is DeadAppBuilder is Dead

Peter van Dam

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Why is AppBuilder Dead?

Old Outdated Single vendor End of life cycle Not suitable for OO Not suitable for .NET

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Why is OpenEdge Architect Alive?

New Current Supports Visual Designer & OO development Industry standard (Eclipse) Not alone (many plugins available) Open Source with many large sponsors Under active development

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Why would you still want to use AppBuilder?

Familiar Fast Supports AppBuilder format

files (.w files)

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The AppBuilder in OpenEdge Architect

The AppBuilder is supported in OpenEdge Architect

Is docked in OEA, but OEA Editor is used Maintains .w files visually Superior editor

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Advantages of OpenEdge Architect

New editor is very powerful Supports AppBuilder markup (&ANALYZE-

SUSPEND etc.) The Outline is brilliant Outline also (especially!) available for visible

objects

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Outline

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Demo: Using the AppBuillder in OEA

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Windows Preferences OpenEdge Architect Editor

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Some Great OEA Editor Features

CTRL CTRL-/ SHIFT-F2 CTRL-I CTRL-SHIFT-F (beauty.p is back!) CTRL-ALT-J

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Drawbacks of OpenEdge Architect

Things don’t work like you are used to - everything works ‘different’

Need high resolution PROPATH setting is different OEA wants to have all code in project Version control…

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Why don’t YOU use OpenEdge Architect?

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Questions?

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peter@futureproofsoftware.com

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