Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Data Management:
DataServer for ORACLE

> ## Distributed DataServer applications

> OpenEdge has integrated much of its server technology into a single framework, which allows you to administer distributed components as a single system. The OpenEdge products that are dependent on this single administrative system, known as the Progress Explorer administration framework, are the Progress® AppServer™ and the WebSpeed® Transaction Server™. Both of these products can support DataServers that allow you to include a non-OpenEdge data source into this distributed system.

> AppServer applications can use the DataServer to access data from a non-OpenEdge data source. WebSpeed Agents can connect to a non-OpenEdge data source and execute their SpeedScript applications against it. Note that the AppServer and WebSpeed can access DataServers that are not administered by the Progress Explorer administration framework.

> In the Progress Explorer administration framework, a single administrative service (the AdminService) controls the various processes required by the AppServer, WebSpeed, and DataServers. This allows you to centralize your resources. The framework also supports a single access point for configuring, running, managing, and analyzing your distributed architecture. In Windows, this utility is the Progress Explorer, which provides a graphical interface to configuration and administrative tasks. On UNIX, you work with the Explorer administration framework through a properties file and command-line utilities. See OpenEdge Getting Started: Installation and Configuration for an overview of the Progress Explorer administration framework.

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