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Messaging and ESB
Introduction to messaging : Publish-and-Subscribe messaging : Integrating with the native ABL publish-and-subscribe mechanism
 

Integrating with the native ABL publish-and-subscribe mechanism

The JMS Pub/Sub model complements ABL publish-and-subscribe syntax (named events) for distributed applications. As shown in the following figure, an ABL program written with the local ABL syntax for publish-and-subscribe can be distributed with the addition of local and remote gateway object modules. Using this model, an ABL programmer can integrate the local application with the SonicMQ functionality without recompiling. Progress Software Corporation recommends this model but does not provide specific software to implement it, except for the sample application files (see Messaging Examples.
Figure 1. Gateway model