Creating Hybrid Applications

Creating Hybrid Applications Is a Necessity for Developers

Developers have a significant challenge today when creating applications for the distributed enterprise. As enterprises become more interconnected with partners, suppliers and customers, the applications that drive business processes at nearly every level of the organization must interact with other applications on both sides of the firewall. That will often require a hybrid – a program that is accessible regardless of platform. In creating hybrid applications developers must work with multiple technologies -- .NET clients, Java clients, Java messaging, XML and Web services, to name a few. Since enterprises also require application development to be ever faster and developers to be more productive, the right set of tools can make a tremendous difference in creating hybrid applications successfully and cost-efficiently. And for developers worldwide, Progress Software offers the tools of choice.

Progress OpenEdge Makes Creating Hybrid Applications Simple

Progress Software offers an innovative infrastructure that enables enterprises to simplify and accelerate the development and deployment of critical business applications. The Progress® OpenEdge® product line includes development tools and an integrated environment that simplifies the development of hybrid programs. OpenEdge® Studio, for example, provides a single workbench with a powerful set of visual tools that automate much of the work in creating user interfaces and business components. These tools and the development methodology that supports them facilitate the reuse of business logic and eliminate many coding tasks. Once business expertise has been captured in the form of logic-defining rules and processes, OpenEdge Studio makes it simple to deploy that logic so it can be accessed as a Web service or by OpenEdge, .NET or Java clients. Thus OpenEdge Studio delivers a single environment for quickly and efficiently creating hybrid applications.

Advanced Tools for Creating and Deploying Hybrid Systems and Applications

OpenEdge also provides critical tools for integrating hybrid applications within and beyond the enterprise. OpenEdge Application Server, for example, delivers a foundation for creating applications that combine a user interface built in .NET, Java, C++ and others with OpenEdge's powerful business-processing engine. With OpenEdge Application Server, the ability for creating hybrid applications and extending them across the enterprise and to customers, partner and suppliers is virtually unlimited.

Progress Software also provides solutions for application infrastructure, application integration software, development infrastructure, service oriented architectures, solutions architecture, and an alternative to visual basic development.

Learn more about creating hybrid applications with Progress OpenEdge