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.