Sonic ESB Workbench
Simplify Your Integration and Development Projects
Progress® Sonic® Workbench is an Eclipse-based integration toolset for modeling, configuring, testing and deploying processes and services using the Sonic Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Give your developers tools that will help them be more productive and accelerate time-to-market for new services and applications, and your business will become more operationally responsive to business changes and market trends.
Sonic ESB Workbench brings wide-area SOA and multi-site integration to the desktop, providing a graphically-oriented user interface that makes it easy to model business processes, and specify configuration and deployment details. Developers can scope their deployment in a virtual environment and then port that to the production environment as one REST service. Upon deployment, debugging happens in the network using real-time tracking and step-through debugging tools. Together, the Sonic Workbench provides you with:
- Top-Down Business Process Modeling - Deliver reliable service, with fast response and throughput to spare even during peak periods.
- Robust Integration with Progress® DataXtend® Semantic Integrator - Sonic and DataXtend now provide you with a tightly-integrated, collaborative development environment that ensures precise semantic data transformation and integration while reducing complexity.
- Process and Service Configuration - Give integration developers the ability to easily update multi-part services without concern for related artifacts.
- Integrated Test Environments - Distributed SOA is literally delivered to the developer's desktop, improving and speeding testing.
- Deployment Tools - Speed deployment of services and processes and reduce the risk associated with service or process change.
Give your developers the tools they need to be more productive and accelerate time-to-market for new services and applications with Sonic Workbench. This solution also:
- Facilitates streamlined collaboration among business analysts, architects and developers with easy to obtain business processes.
- Simplifies SOA project lifecycle in complex, distributed environments.
- Addresses SOA limitations with semantic data transformation and integration as well as dynamic visibility and governance.
- Reduces IT capital and labor costs through standardization on open technologies.
- Accelerates business process and service configuration.
- Simplifies test and debug of complex distributed deployments.
- Reduces risk associated with service and process change.
- Combines open source ease of development with enterprise QoS in production.
The Sonic ESB Workbench delivers a comprehensive set of features engineered to meet the specifications and requirements of the most-demanding, event-driven environments including:
- Top-down business process modeling - Visually models business processes without requiring specification of the features and properties of services they invoke; developers may subsequently "drill down" into process steps to fully specify their features and properties.
- Visual Process Definition - Developers can easily update multi-part services without concern for related artifacts. They can also expose process as REST services, making it easy to rapidly port them to other service containers.
- Tight Product Integration with Progress DataXtend Semantic Integrator - With Sonic 8.5 and DataXtend 8.5, developers take advantage of data services packaged as native Sonic ESB services while they enjoy the richness Sonic provides at run-time.
- Web service configuration - Visual tools to define SOAP messages, specify WS-Security and WS-Reliable Messaging policies, create outgoing Web service invocations and map incoming Web service invocations to ESB messages.
- XSLT, XPath and XQuery configuration - Visual environment for creating and testing of XML transformation, XPath and XQuery expressions for ESB mediation services.
- Database service configuration - Develop ESB services to query or update relational databases using ANSI-standard SQL; map query results efficiently into XML structures.
- Java service development - Create and test custom ESB services; Services can be created from scratch or from an existing Java class.
- Integrated test environment - Build and test processes locally in pre-configured services containers before deploying across the network; developers can define test scenarios directly from within the tools that can be run against their configurations.
- Real-time, visual monitoring of process messages - Live tracking of service interaction and business process flow.
- Distributed Process Debugger (patent pending) - Real-time ESB Process debugger allows developers to view and debug executing ESB Processes as they flow across the LAN or WAN. Dynamically tracks sub-processes and message fan-out patterns as independent flows of execution.
