Progress Dynamics TM 2.0 Preview

Progress DynamicsTM 2.0 PreviewProgress DynamicsTM 2.0 Preview

Anthony Swindells, Lead ArchitectJohn Sadd, Engineering Fellow and OpenEdge Evangelist

© 2002, Progress Software Corporation2

IntroductionIntroduction

This session is a merge of a number of sessions delivered at Exchange 2002 – with most of the marketing stuff removed!

As V2 is now in Beta (2), this presentation has been updated somewhat to be closer to what V2 really delivers.


IntroductionIntroduction

This session is a merge of a number of sessions delivered at Exchange 2002 – with most of the marketing stuff removed!

As V2 is now in Beta (2), this presentation has been updated somewhat to be closer to what V2 really delivers.– But as it is not released, you still cannot

believe anything we say…


AgendaAgenda

Briefly, what is Progress Dynamics™? V2 High Level Goals Tools Enhancements Dynamics WEB Behind the Scenes Deployment and Upgrades When will V2 be Available A Peek into the Future


D I S C L A I M E R

Products Under DevelopmentProducts Under Development

This talk includes information about potential future products and/or product enhancements.

What we are going to say reflects our current thinking, but some information contained herein is preliminary and subject to change. Any future products we ultimately deliver may be materially different from what is described here.

In other words - you can’t believe everything we’re going to say.


OpenEdgeOpenEdge™™ Application Environment Application Environment

for Rapidly Developing and Deploying for Rapidly Developing and Deploying Dynamic n-Tier Business ApplicationsDynamic n-Tier Business Applications

What is Progress Dynamics™?What is Progress Dynamics™?


Progress Dynamics™ Includes…Progress Dynamics™ Includes…

Application Framework Repository Database Standard Components Tools


Why Progress Dynamics™?Why Progress Dynamics™?

Prescriptive ApproachRepository-based

More of solutionis pre-deliveredDesigned to be easily modified

Smaller client footprint

GUI and DHTML from 1 definition


Dynamics Development TeamDynamics Development Team

QuebecCanada

Jo’burgSouth Africa

AucklandNew

Zealand

HjørringDenmark

New HampshireUSA

ArizonaUSA

CaliforniaUSA

MassachusettsUSA


Progress Dynamics Success StoriesProgress Dynamics Success Stories

Four partners already deploying Dynamics-based applications – Seven - Ten More deploying in 2002

– 40 customers through Empowerment Early Adopter Program


Nov. FCSNov. FCS

What Customers are Saying …Keystone SystemsWhat Customers are Saying …Keystone Systems

KLAS application offers accessibility to handicapped

75% of primary module developed during Empowerment Center

Deploying Mid- November

“The fact that we've been able to complete over 70 percent of our application work in only four weeks as a result of our Empowerment Center experience, puts us far ahead of the curve."

James BurtsProject Manager, Keystone Systems


“…Progress Dynamics…cut development times by 40-50% compared with using conventional technologies."

Frank Mainzer CTO, DataSwiss Solutions AG

What Customers are Saying …DataSwiss Solutions AGWhat Customers are Saying …DataSwiss Solutions AG

Released!Released!

SwissCare HIS system for long-term care and rehabilitation

Used Dynamics to deploy global product available in German, English, French and Spanish

Application went from 400MB to 40MB


Q4 BetaQ4 Beta

“Progress Dynamics was one of the key motivating factors behind our choice of the OpenEdge platform. … it became clear that Dynamics would provide the fastest time-to-market of all our application development options."

Kevin Linardic, Senior Consultant Carrier Logistics, Inc.

What Customers are Saying …Carrier LogisticsWhat Customers are Saying …Carrier Logistics

FACTS2000 freight management application Moved from V7 character to Dynamics Beta scheduled for Q4


BGNBGN

Bookstore application, inventory of returned books for reselling, some backoffice for central BGN office

Used Dynamics re-write character application to improve user interface and improve application flow

Progress Software GPS project

Released!Released!


What Customers are Saying …What Customers are Saying …

“Our development team is working so fast they are being held up by the analysts…”

“Can you please make it look a bit harder – we have customers listening who we want to justify the bill too!”


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V2 High Level GoalsV2 High Level Goals

Dynamic Web Browser UI Visual Building of Dynamic Objects Enhanced Tools Enhanced Performance DataServer Support Improved Internationalization Reduced Client Footprint Upgrade and Migration


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Visual Building of Dynamic ObjectsVisual Building of Dynamic Objects

Appbuilder Support for:– Dynamic Viewers

– Dynamic Browsers

– Dynamic SDO’s Migration of Static to Dynamic Objects

(manual and batch) Avoids manual edits in ROM Tool !


New Dynamic Property SheetNew Dynamic Property Sheet

Reads Attributes (Properties) from Repository

Supports Dynamic UI Events Supports Design-Time Customization Integrated into Tools:

– Appbuilder– Container Builder– Menu / Toolbar Designer

Minimizes use of ROM Tool !


New Container BuilderNew Container Builder

New utility combines V1.1 functionality in Container Builder and Layout Builder– Visual interface to building containers

– Flexible way to add, delete, replace pages, objects and links

– Supports Result Codes for Customization


Misc. Tools EnhancementsMisc. Tools Enhancements

Appbuilder Open Object Enhancements – Filtering– Properties (F4)– MRU List

Support for Object Deletions Enhanced Wizards – path flexibility ROM Tool has a “Where Used” node New Help Authoring Tool (show) New Object Generator UI New Object Type Maintenance – supports class

hierarchy Session Types now support inheritance


Tools – UI Consistency ImprovementsTools – UI Consistency Improvements

Set of guidelines has been established Many changes have been made

– Field widths– Sizing problems– Tab Orders– Use of Appropriate Controls– Spelling and Grammar– Fixes in about 60 places

More work will be done in later releases


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AppServer

ICFDB

Appl DB

AppServer Session

Config/Conn. Mgr.

Profile Manager

Localization Mgr.

Security Manager

Repository Manager

Session Manager

Thin Client

Config/Conn. Mgr.

Profile Manager

Localization Mgr.

Security Manager

Repository Manager

Session Manager Stateless

Dynamics Run-time ArchitectureDynamics Run-time Architecture

WebSpeed Agent

Config/Conn. Mgr.

Profile Manager

Security Manager

Repository Manager

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Localization Mgr.

DHTML Client

Stateless


What is Progress Dynamics™ Web?What is Progress Dynamics™ Web?

Toolset for creating and deploying fully featured, fully functional, stateless enterprise applications in a web browser

Dynamically generated web pages from unified abstract repository data

Complete object toolkit including browse, viewer, tab folder, tool bar, menu, tree view

Rich, interactive UI; linked objects, field state, validation, lookup, find/filter

Managers for processing web requests, rendering web UI


What is Dynamics Web (contd)?What is Dynamics Web (contd)?

Low network chat, high performance client-to-server communication

Separation of UI, business logic and data Reuse Progress Dynamics toolset,

managers Reuse existing business logic, repository

data, dynamic SmartObjects, custom logic procedures

Flexible, extensible, customizable


DHTML: Core TechnologiesDHTML: Core Technologies

DHTML/JavaScript– Internet Explorer 5.5+– HTML DOM– No Java, ActiveX plug-ins required

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS 2)– Visualization customizable at several levels

CSS files at screen level Style tags at any level

HTML Components (HTC)– JavaScript objects similar to ADM2– Expose events, methods

Static HTML, images


Where to Get More InformationWhere to Get More Information

Functional Specification documents athttp://icf.possenet.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=xxxx– Web Overview (4395)

– DHTML Engine (4396)

– UI Manager (4397)

– Request Manager (4398)

– Web Development (5761)


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Design-Time CustomizationDesign-Time Customization

Allow customization of object attributes, pages, links, contained object instances, etc.

Functionality added to Appbuilder, new Dynamic Property Sheets and Container Builder

ROM Tool supports customization result codes


Customization TypesCustomization Types

Customization Types– e.g. UI, User, Category, Login Company,

Language, etc.

– Specifies API to retrieve type of data

– Session supports specified customization types – set property in session at startup

– Multiple types may apply

– Can define own types for anything


Customization ResultsCustomization Results

Customization Results must be for a specific customization type

Specify valid values for the result, e.g. – for UI type customizations, results could

be GUI, CHR, DHTML, HTML, PDA, etc.– For User type customizations, results

could be user names or maybe job functions

– For language customizations, results could be French, English, German, etc.


Object CustomizationsObject Customizations

Optionally joined customization result to object table

Modified unique key on object table to include customization result

Object with result code of blank is default Only store changes for objects with a result code

specified Always start with default object and apply

customizations on top Many customizations may apply for a session –

results accumulated

Dynamic Data ObjectDynamic Data Object

(SDO)


Dynamic Data ObjectDynamic Data Object

No Recompilations Reduced Footprint One procedure with no code

– Move all methods in data.i to super procedures

Transparent (Not just a query object)


What is the Dynamic Data Object? What is the Dynamic Data Object?

1 physical file, adm2/dynsdo.w Run separately to render each instance A running instance is a rendering of

– Repository attributes– Inherited logic from data, query and other

classes – Business Logic hooks from the Custom

Logical Procedure Runs on both server and client


The Role of the Logic Procedure The Role of the Logic Procedure

The Logic Procedure still needs to be static to be able to express business logic

The data object include is still generated to be included in the Logic Procedure

Column properties are stored in the generated include or inherited from Data Dictionary

Used by the Dynamic SDO at runtime

Open Data ObjectOpen Data Object

APIs


Open Data Object - GoalsOpen Data Object - Goals

Improve the data objects ability to operate as the data source for stateless calls from WebSpeed.

Make the data object accessible from 4GL anywhere

Eliminate the need to write special SDO adapters to manage data requests from non Progress clients

Require no knowledge of the internal data object temp-tables


What’s the Purpose of the Open API? What’s the Purpose of the Open API?

Create,Update,Delete & Read Reuse of business logic Manage batches of data for stateless

requests Last, but not least, simplify these

tasks


Performance ImprovementsPerformance Improvements

Object Inheritance– Significantly reduces repository size

– New Repository APIs ! Reduction in AppServer Hits

– Begun with 9.1D core improvements

– Utilization of Dynamic Call functionality

– Continued ADM2 enhancements

– Improved Manager Caching


Repository RestructureRepository Restructure

CLASS

OBJECT

INSTANCE

Class Attributes

Custom ObjectAttributes

Custom InstanceAttributes

Change

Change

Change


ADM Classes and PropertiesADM Classes and Properties

The Repository has been extended to support ADM classes and properties

The support includes inheritance of attributes AND values

ADM instances do not use the *prop.i table definition, but retrieves the property temp-table from the Repository Manager

The Repository also stores values for native 4GL widget attributes on Viewers


Class HierarchyClass HierarchyBase

Appserver

BusinessObject

Query

Data

Container

Visual

DataVisual

Browser Viewer

Filter

Panel

Toolbar

Action

Messaging

MsgHandler

Producer Consumer

XML

B2B

Field

DynLookup DynCombo

Select

DynSDO SBO

DynObjc DynMenucDynFold SmartDialog SmartFrameSmartWindow

SDO

StaticDiag

StaticSO

StaticFrame StaticCont StaticFoldStaticObjc StaticMenc

DynView

StaticSDV

DynBrow

StaticSDB

SmartBrowser SmartViewer

SmartQuery

SmartToolbarDynSDF

SmartFolder

TVController

DynTree

SmartContainer

Router

StaticSDF


What About Dataservers?What About Dataservers?

DataServer Support for– Oracle

– Microsoft SQL Server Application Databases only


Globalization EnhancementsGlobalization Enhancements

Double-byte enabled– Supports UTF-8 standards

Menu Item Translation support (show)– New “source language”– Menu items are not assumed to be in

English Date/Number Formats Synch with

Appserver Store Attributes in Native Data Type


What about Roundtable?What about Roundtable?

Roundtable TSMS is for Software Configuration Management (SCM)

Support Roundtable 9.1C Enhanced Roundtable Integration – without RVDB Integrated DCU APIs into Roundtable Partner Deployment Packages Impact Analysis of Changes

http://www.roundtable-tsms.com/

http://www.roundtable-tsms.com/


What about ERwin?What about ERwin?

Now only support ERwin 4.1

http://support.ca.com/erwin_supp.html Major benefits

– Quality Database Design

– Documentation / Reports

– Off-line Schema Changes

– Automated Code Added Relationship Support

http://support.ca.com/erwin_supp.html

http://www.ca.com/products/alm/erwin.htm


RelationshipsRelationships

is joined using

ryc_relationship

relationship_obj

relationship_reference (AK1.1)relationship_description (IE1.1)parent_entity (FK) (IE2.1)child_entity (FK) (IE3.1)primary_relationship (IE4.1)identifying_relationshipnulls_allowedcardinalityupdate_parent_allowedparent_delete_actionparent_insert_actionparent_update_actionparent_verb_phrasechild_delete_actionchild_insert_actionchild_update_actionchild_verb_phrasemodel_external_reference (AK2.1)

ryc_relationship_field

relationship_field_obj

relationship_obj (FK) (AK1.1)join_sequence (AK1.2)parent_table_name (IE1.1)parent_field_name (IE2.1)use_parent_constant_valueparent_constant_valuechild_table_name (IE3.1)child_field_name (IE4.1)use_child_constant_valuechild_constant_value

ryc_ri_default

ri_default_obj

relationship_type (AK1.1)action_type (AK1.2,IE1.1)default_rule


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What’s Coming For Deployment?What’s Coming For Deployment?

Repository Support for Object Locations– Client, Server, WEB

Enhanced Deployment Configuration Utility (DCU) for Migration

Deployment of Deletions Reuse of deleted keys Identification of Modified

Files for Deployment


V1.1A SP3 to V2 UpgradeV1.1A SP3 to V2 Upgrade

Fully supported DCU (Dynamics Configuration Utility) will

upgrade current repository to new schema Upgrade functionality is tested as new software is

developed Other DCU Enhancements

– Hooks at more stages (before & after deltas, at login, before & after ADOs

– Used by Progress, but can also be used by customers for deployment


Bug Fixes, General EnhancementsBug Fixes, General Enhancements

We have closed over 2000 Issues since Dynamics SP3!

Additional on-line Help More documentation


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When’s It Coming?When’s It Coming?

Some ADM2 in 9.1D POSSE – Now (WIP) Beta 2 – Available FCS – Nov 2002


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A Peek into the Future…A Peek into the Future…

NOTE: This may be pure fiction!


What about the next release - V2.1?What about the next release - V2.1?

Expect to target 2.1? for around April / May 2003 (approx. 6 months after V2 ships)

Focus on:– Enhanced Performance– Bug Fixing and Minor Enhancements– HTML UI Functionality– UI Enhancements (Outlook Style, etc.)– Enhanced Object Generation (Containers, SBOs)– Framework Support for Printing– Role / Group Based Security– Standard Client Logic APIs


What’s Planned for V3What’s Planned for V3

Focus on:– Dynamics for SOA

Web Services Integration Business Rules in Repository Events / Flows

– New UI Rendering Engines (.NET, XML, etc)– Reporting– End-User / Run-time Customization– Enhanced / New ADE– Performance and Bug Fixing


SummarySummary

Great stuff now Better stuff to come Progress is committed YOU can help via POSSE

– www.possenet.org


Where to get more InformationWhere to get more Information

Beta Specs / POSSE Issuezilla – query on milestone

– CP30_001_V2Beta Code pulled for Dynamics V2 Beta– P30_002_Open Targeted for next major release of

Dynamics (V2 - FCS)– P30_003_V2.1 Targeted for shortly after next major

release (e.g. V2.1)– P30_004_V3 Targeted for next but one major release of

Dynamics (e.g. V3)


Some Debug AidsSome Debug Aids

To enable debug options, add this into your icfconfig.xml– <_debug_tools_on>YES</_debug_tools_on>– <_profiler_run>YES</_profiler_run>

CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-C to display a repository cache viewer CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-Q to get the query used for a dyn combo, when

focus is on the combo CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-S to show session property temp-tables CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-HOME to get all the links for a container To get the query used for a dynamic lookup, double-click on the

frame of the lookup, between the browse and the fill-in showing the records to retrieve.

In the filter window, double-clicking on the window itself will show information about the SDO's query. The easiest place to do this is to click on the space between the right edge of the folder window and the edge of the frame.


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