OpenEdge Adapter for Sonic

OpenEdge® and the Sonic ESB® Product Family: Integrating the World's Best Business Applications

To remain competitive and meet the ever-changing demands of business, all organizations must be increasingly agile and flexible. Streamlining development and enabling connectivity inside and outside of your organization requires an integration strategy at the technology level, as well as at the business level. To meet the diverse requirements for a company's integration strategy, OpenEdge offers a standards-based distributed infrastructure, tightly coupled with the industry's most reliable integration solutions— SonicMQ® and Sonic ESB®.

Progress SonicMQ is the foundation for open-standards messaging with features that enable connectivity within your organization and with your remote business partners and customers. SonicMQ is a complete and mature messaging system that:

• Allows you to reliably send and receive messages to/from individual components via queues
• Send messages to any interested party via topics

With a guaranteed message delivery system that ensures that messages are NEVER lost due to any type of software, hardware or network failure, you can depend on SonicMQ for your most complex business transactions.

The OpenEdge Adapter for SonicMQ makes it possible for Advanced Business Language (ABL) programmers to write applications that use SonicMQ messaging. Working with familiar ABL syntax and tools, they can develop applications that send messages to and receive messages from applications written in ABL or other programming languages, such as .NET and Java.

Progress Sonic ESB is the world's first enterprise service bus. It eliminates the rigidity and fragility of point-to-point integration with a robust, event-driven architecture that can evolve, scale, and extend throughout the enterprise. Across wide-area networks, security domains, and organizational boundaries, Sonic ESB manages the distributed deployment and execution of independently scalable integration services. With patent-pending Continuous Availability Architecture™ (CAA), only Sonic can guarantee timely and continuous delivery of mission-critical business events.

ABL business logic that executes on the OpenEdge Application Server can quickly and easily be integrated into a Sonic ESB business flow/itinerary. The OpenEdge Adapter for Sonic ESB enables Sonic ESB to call ABL natively or as a Web service. For developers, exposing an ABL procedure is as simple as dragging and dropping the source code onto the ESB business process being defined. Any application connected to the enterprise service bus, regardless of its coding language, can quickly and easily access OpenEdge applications as reusable services.