Progress Software has released Progress OpenEdge 10, the foundation for its component-based approach to building distributed applications for service-oriented architectures (SOA).
A product suite targeted at implementing business applications for the integrated extended enterprise, OpenEdge 10 gives professional application developers the ability to extend their applications by enabling them to reuse existing business logic while offering a wide variety of user interface (UI) and operational choices.
More than 90 Progress Application Partners (APs) participated in Progress`s global beta programme to put OpenEdge 10 to the test, confirming that it allows developers to expose their highly tailored applications as Web services.
Bloor Research comments: "OpenEdge supports possibly the widest deployment possibilities of any development environment we are aware of. Additionally, it delivers operational management capability that optimises the use of available resources without compromising quality of service. This reduces deployment costs. OpenEdge is probably the most comprehensive application development and integration environment currently provided by any vendor."
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"As business systems have evolved to take advantage of new technology, business logic has become buried in increasingly complex non-standards-based `accidental architectures`, presenting today`s developers with the challenge of efficiently sorting out and extending these mission-critical business systems to Web services environments," says Rick Parry, MD of Progress Software SA. "OpenEdge Studio, OpenEdge 10`s premier development environment, offers the unique ability to expose business logic as Web services, which are readily accessible across the entire business in a variety of deployment options. By facilitating reuse of proven functionality and exposing it in a standards-based format, OpenEdge 10 reduces developer overhead and simplifies implementation and integration."
OpenEdge 10 provides UI independence, allowing developers to choose among the most popular user interface technologies, including native support for Microsoft .NET or Java UIs, without modifying their proven Progress-based business logic. It also affords two levels of support for Web services. The OpenEdge Application Servers and Clients offer native abilities to provide and consume Web services. For developers who want to incorporate a higher level of services orchestration and business process management, OpenEdge provides Sonic Software`s enterprise service bus (ESB), Sonic ESB.
By using Sonic ESB, OpenEdge allows application developers to create a standards-based method to share information with any other applications or services that are plugged in to the ESB. This permits Progress APs to extend their existing applications and market reach with new technologies.
"This is just one more way Progress is making it possible for companies to leverage their solid business logic and reliable database, while still being able to take advantage of the latest technology advancements," says Parry. "Unlike other popular development platforms, OpenEdge doesn`t require you to rewrite your business logic from scratch in order to offer the latest Web services and integration capabilities."
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