Preface

Purpose

Audience

This content is intended for any OpenEdge application server administrators or developers who need to learn about PAS for OpenEdge.

Organization

Learn About Migrating Classic AppServer Applications to PAS for OpenEdge

Migrating an application from the Progress OpenEdge AppServer (classic AppServer) or the WebSpeed Transaction Server to Progress Application Server (PAS) for OpenEdge begins with moving your application to a test environment with a few simple code and property changes.

Quick Start: Move Classic AppServer Applications to PAS for OpenEdge

System administrators can move existing OpenEdge Application Server (classic AppSever) applications to PAS for OpenEdge production and staging environments using the tools provided by OpenEdge and the guidance from this tutorial and the PAS for OpenEdge documentation.

ABL Application Code Migration

Provides information about the concepts needed for migrating ABL code to PAS for OpenEdge, including Best practices, differences between classic AppServer and Progress Application Server (PAS) for OpenEdge.

Migrate Server Configuration and Management

Progress Application Server (PAS) for OpenEdge runs ABL business applications in a web server environment. Progress Application Server (PAS) for OpenEdge instance configuration and management is very different from the classic OpenEdge AppServer.

Migrate Classic WebSpeed Applications

PAS for OpenEdge is available as a host for WebSpeed applications. You can migrate existing WebSpeed applications to PAS for OpenEdge, or you can use the Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge to develop new WebSpeed applications that run on PAS for OpenEdge.

Documentation conventions

See Documentation Conventions for an explanation of the terminology, format, and typographical conventions used throughout the OpenEdge content library.