The Progress Application Server (PAS) for OpenEdge is a platform that provides web server support for Progress applications. Progress applications are packaged as web application archives (WAR files) and are deployed on the Java servlet container of a running PAS for OpenEdge instance. Apache Tomcat is used as the web server that includes the Java servlet container for hosting Web applications. Client access to PAS for OpenEdge is through HTTP/HTTPS protocols.

OpenEdge Management lets you create, configure, and manage PAS for OpenEdge instances. Additionally, you can deploy web applications and services to PAS for OpenEdge instances and manage the applications.