Advanced Business Language (ABL) WHITEPAPER © 2022 Progress. All Rights Reserved. 1 At the core of Progress® OpenEdge® application development is the Advanced Business Language (ABL), a language specifically purposed to express business processes as efficiently as possible. Understanding that today’s application developers work with complex sets of technologies, Progress has evolved the ABL to include interfaces to key industry standards, such as XML, REST and web services. For jobs that require manipulating specialized code, the ABL includes powerful and adaptive syntax. Developers have the option of creating one code set and deploying it on Microsoft Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms. An OpenEdge developer can create APIs for .NET, JavaScript, Java clients, Java messaging and e

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