Adapters allow customers to integrate diverse applications and other information resources using ActiveWorks. Adapters provide bi-directional mapping of information between the application's native format and ActiveWorks events, enabling custom and packaged applications, databases, legacy systems, Internet and extranet applications to exchange information.

The Web Adapter, for ActiveWorks Information Broker, allows organizations to instantly interact with ANY and ALL Active Event Types, independent of the publishing Agent. The Web Adapter consists of an automatic HTML layout tool as well as a runtime adapter agent which dynamically transforms Event Types into HTML. The Web Adapter is not just a translator, but rather a complete Web graphical interface development and deployment approach for ActiveWorks. The Web Adapter supports simple to complex Web interaction requirements.

How does the Web Adapter work? The WEB Adapter receives WEB GET and POST request operations, and transforms them into ActiveWorks request events, which it publishes. It receives the corresponding ActiveWorks reply events. Reply event fields are populated into an output HTML/XML template, and passed to the Web server for transmission to the client.

The WEB Adapter supports all ActiveWorks event field data types, structures, and sequences, and multiple replies. All of the standard HTML form controls are supported for input (i.e. text, checkbox, radio, select).

Download Information on the Web Adapter for ActiveWorks (MS Power Point format)

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C Language Adapter for ActiveWorks

There are four categories of Adapters plus Custom Adapters, which are built by Active Software’s Professional Services organization and partners such as Premier Software.

1. Database Adapters
2. Application Adapters
3. Integration Agents, and
4. Language Adapters

Most Adapters are available for multiple product configurations on multiple platforms, and in order to support the midrange market Premier Software provides for the C Language Adapter for the HP3000 MPE/iX platform.

The C Language Adapter supports all ActiveWorks communication paradigms (request/reply and publish/subscribe). Premier works in partnership with Active Software to maintain the integrity and to support all appropriate version of the ActiveWorks Integration Broker.

C-Gen SDK

Active supplies many different Language Adapters, though none out classes using good old "C" for the encapsulation of legacy code. The one drawback to re-architecting legacy code to interact with the broker is the investment made in developing 3GL code and learning to effectively use the Active libraries and the library API calls.

Premier Software has distilled the best practices in using the C API (security, failover, parameter conversion) and packaged then with it's core OSCAR technology to provide a Code Generation facility - one that generates request/.reply and publish/subscribe frameworks. These frameworks facilitate an straightforward repackaging of business logic into discrete events.

Contact sales@premiersoft.com for more information.