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Abe Voelker drafted a beautiful write-up about how to switch away from OpenEdge.
Cure for the Plague: A Theoretical Progress OpenEdge ABL Migration Plan

He suggests to use JRuby (or maybe Groovy, or Java), because they are OS and data-store independent, modern (i.e. OO), allow easy CRUD data-access, and support Web application development.

I admire his energy, the extended effort to research, and the kindness to share his insights with the world.

I am a bit surprised, though, by his dislike of the ABL. I L-O-V-E it!

Many companies are contemplating to use AppServer, but are deadly afraid of doing so. Here are some thoughts about how to make developing and maintaining AppServer applications easy and very feasible.

There are three main issues I encountered over the years:

a) Increased Development Time:

I used to think, that the top-main issue that AppServer novices run into is the amount of time it takes to get a program working, if the back-end is on the AppServer, which the front-end is using to access data.

I know that this seems so simple, I am almost embarrassed to even post it. I know how to create super procedures, and run them persistently. Can someone give me an example of how to use the technique to replace the need for global shared variables? I know I am missing something here! Thanks.

There is a section in the pdf_definition procedure in which the page rotation is hard-coded to zero:

PUT STREAM S_pdf_inc UNFORMATTED
"/Rotate 0" {&pdfSKIP}.


I'm not sure why a page rotation of 0 was hard-coded. This small change makes page rotation work:

PUT STREAM S_pdf_inc UNFORMATTED
"/Rotate " TT_pdf_page.page_rotate {&pdfSKIP}.


Anyone know why this feature was disabled in the first place?

Hi,
I think, Punit is a free unit testing tool. and I've the downloaded files prounit-0.008-dlc10.zip and PUnit-0.10.0-Beta.zip

But not sure how to use it in progress applications?

Thanks in advance,
Sridevi Stalin

EQN II is ready for release! Open Source symbolic mathematics library available for Progress ABL/4GL here http://bit.ly/hetmA3

The Progress Knowledge base (entries P116692 and P130210) mentions the Microsoft ADPlus tool.
I have written a small procedure that can be run in a prowin32 session (db connection required) to start the ADPlus tool for that session.

Requirements

• ADPlus.exe is installed and copied to c:\progress\adplus.exe. I had trouble with paths containing spaces.
• a directory c:\tmp\crashlog must exist
• Paths in the code are for 64bit windows, these will differ in 32bit

PROPATH = "C:\p4gl, " + "C:\p4gl\tools, " + "C:\p4gl\tools\prolint, " + "C:\p4gl\tools\prolint\ab, " + "C:\p4gl\tools\prolint\core, " + "C:\p4gl\tools\prolint\db, " + "C:\p4gl\tools\prolint\filters, " + "C:\p4gl\tools\prolint\images, " + "C:\p4gl\tools\prolint\launch, " + "C:\p4gl\tools\prolint\NO-ERROR, " + "C:\p4gl\tools\prolint\outputhandlers, " + "C:\p4gl\tools\prolint\prolintdb, " + "C:\p4gl\tools\prolint\regrtest, " + "C:\p4gl\tools\prolint\regrtest\db, " + "C:\p4gl\tools\prolint\regrtest-oo, " + "C:\p4gl\tools\prolint\roundtable, " + "C:\p4gl\tools\prolint\roundtable\91c, " + "C:\p4gl\t

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