openedge architect rules! appbuilder is dead
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OpenEdge Architect Rules! AppBuilder is Dead. Peter van Dam. Why is AppBuilder Dead?. Old Outdated Single vendor End of life cycle Not suitable for OO Not suitable for .NET. Why is OpenEdge Architect Alive?. New Current Supports Visual Designer & OO development - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Old Outdated Single vendor End of life cycle Not suitable for OO Not suitable for .NET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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Thank You