From PSDN:
What’s Coming in Progress OpenEdge 10.1A
Progress OpenEdge 10.1A is the next in a series of releases aimed at making it easier to develop, deploy, integrate and manage OpenEdge business applications. Simply put, the new capabilities added in 10.1A help OpenEdge customers meet client needs in an increasingly competitive market. OpenEdge 10.1a includes a new integrated development environment. The new IDE is compatible with the 4GL and the OpenEdge database, and will work with most existing applications. The new IDE is based on the industry standard Eclipse platform, with a “plug-in” strategy that is common in the industry. It will significantly upgrade the look, feel, and behavior of our development environment.
Progress is committed to providing an IDE which makes it easy to organize the development of an OpenEdge application and manage it through the entire application development lifecycle. The IDE will re-enforce the best practices and guidelines embodied by the OpenEdge Reference Architecture. Additionally, business logic tools will be provided that will simplify the process of building business applications using the 4GL. Addressing architecture throughout the development process will deliver tremendous productivity increases and ensure that the end product is not only rapidly constructed, but well constructed as well.
Auditing is another important capability added in 10.1A. Auditing provides customers with an uninterrupted trail of access to operations and data. This capability helps companies meet the regulatory compliance mandates of such legislation as Sarbanes Oxley and Basel II among others.
Other important 10.1A benefits include higher productivity through installation and configuration enhancements, RDBMS performance and high availability enhancements, simplified installation for the SonicMQ and Sonic ESB Adapters, simplified deployment of OpenEdge Management, fail-back support for OpenEdge Replication, and Linux 64-bit platform support. Important language enhancements are also being introduced including those in ProDataSets, XML support, and object-oriented extensions. Such enhancements make it possible for people to have a language that is as powerful and easy to use in developing new distributed, service-oriented applications, as the original language did for host-based applications.
The product is currently in beta and early returns indicate that OpenEdge 10.1A meets the goal of simplifying the job of developing, deploying, integrating and managing OpenEdge business applications.
