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Tjerk Coomans
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Hi Bret, Is someone guiding you to modernize the application? Since you are new to 4GL/ABL it would be good to set the basics correct and talk through the do's and don'ts. Did you hear about OERA (OpenEdge Referential Architecture). It scares me a bit that your company still uses include files to define utility or helper functions/methods. But if I read your post it also scares you a bit 
. I agree with Mike and Tim. Static methods are great to use but need to be used carefully. A common mistake here is not define correctly record scopes. In general I would say use static methods for utility classes where you don't have data access. When you have data access it would be better to have business entities and an implementation of singleton classes. (OERA)
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. I agree with Mike and Tim. Static methods are great to use but need to be used carefully. A common mistake here is not define correctly record scopes. In general I would say use static methods for utility classes where you don't have data access. When you have data access it would be better to have business entities and an implementation of singleton classes. (OERA)Continue reading...