C2: Introduction to OpenEdge ® Integration Technologies Chris James Senior Consultant.

C2: Introduction to OpenEdge® Integration Technologies

Chris JamesSenior Consultant

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Agenda

Reasons to Integrate Outgoing Integration Incoming Integration Choosing The Right Approach

Introduction to OpenEdge Integration Technologies

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Business Environment Highly Susceptible to Change

Customer Demands Competition Mergers & Acquisitions Divestitures Business Partners Technology Business Expansion Drive for Cost Efficiency

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The IT RealityR

equ

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ent

s

Time

IT Systems

Business

Constant changes reduces the ability to respond

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Agenda

Reasons to Integrate Outgoing Integration Incoming Integration Choosing The Right Approach

Introduction to OpenEdge Integration Technologies

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Outgoing Integration

OpenEdge App

DBDB

ABLABL

UI

Web service

ODBCODBCOracle®Oracle® MSSQLMS

SQL

COM / ActiveX

SonicMQ®/Sonic™ ESB

Process

FlatFile

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Usability Legend

Ease of Implementation

Suseptible to Change

Future Ready

E E E

C C C

F F F

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Outgoing – Flat File

ABL Developers Interpret File Format

IMPORT / EXPORT

INPUT FROM / OUTPUT TO

PUT

READ-XML()* / WRITE-XML()*

* OpenEdge 10.1A

E C F

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Outgoing – Process

ABL Developers Interpret Process Input / Output Format

INPUT THROUGH / OUTPUT THROUGH

External processes are platform dependent!

E C F

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Outgoing – Sockets*

ABL Developers Socket Management Implement Custom Protocol

Remote System Developers Implement Custom Protocol

* Progress 9.1A / OpenEdge 10.0B

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Outgoing – Sockets

Typical Uses• FTP

• HTTP

• SMTP

• Special needs:– Performance– Non-Standard protocol

E C F

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Outgoing – COM / ActiveX*

ABL Developers Instantiate & Use COM objects Embed ActiveX component in GUI

• Program for each event / method

Typical Uses• Custom GUI Objects

• Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Email

*Primarily Windows – otherwise very limited support

E C F

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Outgoing – .Net*

ABL Developers Embed existing .Net components Requires a little OOABL programming

Typical Uses Custom GUI Objects Custom .Net Objects

*Supported only on Windows

*Requires OpenEdge 10.2A (not yet released)

E C F

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Outgoing – Web Service

Web service = HTTP + SOAP

ABL Developers Connection Management

• Very similar to calling OpenEdge AppServer™

Interpret WSDL• bprowsdldoc creates sample code

E C F

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Outgoing – SonicMQ

ABL Developers JMS Connection Management Produce/Consume SonicMQ Messages

Offers Guaranteed Delivery Message ordering

E C F

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Outgoing – Sonic ESB

ABL Developers Produce/Consume SonicMQ Messages Call ESB hosted Web service

Offers Application independant connection to basically

anything*

*JMS, WebService, FTP, Email, HTTP, 100+ Apps

E C F

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Outgoing – Data Server

ABL Developers Either: Tweak data access

• Existing code will just work...

• ...but maybe not efficiently

Or: Reimplement foreign business logic

Oracle, MS/SQL, other ODBC

E C F

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Outgoing Integration Overview

ImplementationApproach

Ease ofImplementation

Suseptibility toChange

Future Ready

Flat File

Process

Sockets

COM / ActiveX

.Net

Web Services

SonicMQ

Sonic ESB

Data Server

E C F

E C F

E C F

E C F

E C F

E C F

E C F

E C F

C FE

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Agenda

Reasons to Integrate Outgoing Integration Incoming Integration Choosing The Right Approach

Introduction to OpenEdge Integration Technologies

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Incoming Integration

OpenEdge App

DBDB

AppServerApp

Server

UI

Web service

Java™

SonicMQ / ESB

ODBC / JDBC

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Incoming – .Net /Java

ABL Developers Proxy Gen Distribute proxies

.Net / Java Developers Use proxies No special coding

E C F

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Incoming – Web Services

ABL Developers Proxy Gen Distribute WSDL

Remote System Developers Use Web Service No Special Coding

E C F

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Incoming – Sonic ESB

ABL Developers Insert Code Annotation Directly deployed into Sonic ESB

Remote System Developers Use easiest approach:

• SonicMQ, Other JMS, Web service, File Drop, DB Event, Email, many more...

E C F

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Incoming – ODBC / JDBC

ABL Developers Do Nothing

Remote System Developers Understand Database Schema Replicate ABL Logic

E C F

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Incoming Integration Overview

ImplementationApproach

Ease ofImplementation

Suseptibility toChange

Future Ready

.Net / Java

Web Services

Sonic ESB

ODBC / JDBC E C F

E C F

E C F

E C F

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Agenda

Reasons to Integrate Incoming Integration Outgoing Integration Choosing The Right Approach

Introduction to OpenEdge Integration Technologies

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IT Dilemma: “The Accidental Architecture”

Proprietary technologies

and skill sets

Multiple communication

infrastructures High cost of license,

consulting and operation

Lots of turf control and

organizational issues

CRM ERP

PARTNER SYSTEMS FINANCE

ORDERENTRY

Inability to Respond

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IT Architecture Requirements

Simplicity Agility and flexibility Reusability Technology independent Promote integration Software that reflects business needs

Built to Change

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Service-Oriented Architecture

An approach for building distributedcomputing systems based on encapsulating

business functions as services that can be easily accessed in a loosely coupled fashion.

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It Has Been Tried Before

CORBA Microsoft® DCOM Java RMI .NET Remoting DCE EJB

Easier for Programmers – API Focused

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How is SOA Different?

Uses established distributed computing and messaging concepts

Scales-up as well as down• Department• Enterprise• Extended enterprise

Incorporates multiple communication models – events and request/reply

Driven by standards and well-known protocols, e.g. Web Services, XML, HTTP, etc.

Easier for Business Analysts – Document Focused

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SOA: It’s Not a Thing

Product A specific technology An application A specific standard A specific set of rules

It’s not a:

An Approach for Building Agile and Flexible Business Applications

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For More Information, go to…

C1: Applied SOA – Building Out Your SOA Environment with OpenEdge

C6: Introducing Native Invocation with the OpenEdge Adapter for Sonic ESB

Relevant OpenEdge Integration Sessions

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For More Information, go to…

A3: Application Architecture Made Simple

A4: Introduction to the OpenEdge GUI for .NET

A7: Architecting Your Application in OpenEdge 10

…and many more

Relevant OpenEdge Integration Sessions

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PSDN – Just some topics...

SOA Overview and Business Drivers Principles of a SOA Identifying Services in your App Access Web services from OpenEdge Patterns for Async Web service calls Building Services in OpenEdge (Overview) Exposing ABL as Web Services Messaging Patterns for OpenEdge

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Documentation

OpenEdge• Installation and Configuration Guides• Application and Integration Services• Core Business Services• Messaging and ESB• Application Server Administration

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Questions?

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Thank You

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