The OpenEdge Hive

The OpenEdge Reference Architecture (OERA) describes an overall structure and pattern for the architecture of modern applications, but does not in itself specify any particular implementation. Progress Software (PSC) has generated a series of whitepapers over recent years which discuss various aspects of this architecture with some sample code, but this code is limited in scope and there is no pretense of it illustrating production-ready techniques. More recently, PSC introduced AutoEdge, an “application example” meant to illustrate one way in which OERA principles might be applied in a real application, but it too is built on a number of simplifying assumptions and does not pretend to offer production ready code on which customers might build real systems without significant further work.

PSC has created AutoEdge as an example application example to illustrate the OpenEdge Reference Architecture. The idea and purpose of AutoEdge is to provide practical definition and examples of OERA and illustrates many aspects of modern ABL and Sonic code and technique. AutoEdge is what an application, with certain ‘business requirements’, might look like if architected and designed following the OERA guidelines.