1. OpenEdge Architect Rules! AppBuilder is Dead
Peter van Dam

2. Why is AppBuilder Dead? Old Outdated Single vendor End of life cycle
Not suitable for OO
Not suitable for .NET
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3. 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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4. Why would you still want to use AppBuilder?
Familiar
Fast
Supports AppBuilder format files (.w files)
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5. 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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6. 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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7. Outline
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8. Demo: Using the AppBuillder in OEA

9. Windows  Preferences  OpenEdge Architect  Editor
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10. 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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11. 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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12. Why don’t YOU use OpenEdge Architect?
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13. ?
Questions

15. Thank You