Web Enabling Your HP 3000

Premier Technical Brief - ACTIVE

Premier Software has released support for an MPE interface to Active

Software’s Active/Web Information Broker. Now in addition to Premier’s own RPC legacy wrap-

ping technology, customers can enjoy the full range of non-MPE integration capabilities avail-

able with the Active/Web Information Broker - one of the top Message broker technologies in

the market. Premier’s offering allows customers to fully engage MPE application’s in the world

of Web Event based integration.

Premier has ported the Active “C” Language API set to the MPE environment. This enables any

MPE application connectivity to Active/Web Broker (available on NT and UNIX). MPE applica-

tions can now “publish” events (messages) and “subscribe” to events. CO-EXISTENCE of MPE

Legacy applications and packages with newer (in birth only) ERP’s is now easier than ever.

Integrating the Active MPE directly to your legacy application code facilitates the use of the

multitude of integration points provided by Active (and the ActiveWorks product) and Active

partners, like Premier. In fact Premier provides a Web Adapter product which interacts with the

ActiveWorks broker to translate messages into predefined html templates.

So putting this all together. The developer builds a new MPE Application Server using the Active

Middleware. The Active Message Broker is deployed on UNIX or NT. The Web Server is

deployed along side the Active Message Broker and translates any number of Web pages into

request/reply messages to the broker.

The strength of this approach is again the encapsulation of the legacy MPE machine from the

Web —- during development and deployment.

Companies

http://www.premiersoft.com/temp

http://www.activesw.com

Recent publications

http://www.interex.org/hpworldnews/hpw905/02mpe.html