SCORE® Adaptive Bridges™
Intelligentes Service Enablement für die Wiederverwendung bewährter Anwendungen mit modernsten Technologien: Flexibel, rentabel und non-invasiv.
SCORE Adaptive Bridges
SCORE Adaptive Bridges
SCORE Adaptive Bridges is a generative tool that flexibly connects application components together – also and in particular, those that have been developed with different languages and technologies as well as for various platforms. SCORE Adaptive Bridges provides the necessary bridges through the automated implementation of powerful interfaces and solves automatically all the differences between the various languages, platforms and implementation technologies of large application systems.
Due to its high flexibility and the wide range of available versions for platforms and languages SCORE Adaptive Bridges is used for a number of tasks:
- Application integration: Harmoniously combine old, new and different components in a simple way using tailored interfaces, i.e. application components that have been developed with different languages, architectures, development paradigms and for different platforms.
- SOA: Extensive support for the development of services and the reuse of (parts of) existing applications and functionality as services within service-oriented architectures.
- Gradual modernization: By generating adaptive connections SCORE Adaptive Bridges enables a gradual and therefore very safe approach to modernization. No Big Bang: Applications can be decoupled and are gradually modernized. Gradual approach minimizes the risk and enables the use of new technologies.
SCORE Adaptive Bridges reduces the effort for all these tasks. The development automation and generation of precisely fitting connections opens up new possibilities for the organization of projects like these and reduces the risk that arises from the changes for productive applications.
How SCORE Adaptive Bridges simplifies your application integration
In the Application Integration developers fight repeatedly with two basic problems:
- How to integrate components that have been developed with different technologies?
- How to deal with interface changes?
SCORE Adaptive Bridges automatically generates all that is necessary for the integration of application components, including the entire interface management. It generates tailored connextions which automatically bridge the gap between different languages, architectures, development paradigms and platforms.
The solution: SCORE Adaptive Bridges generates the individual elements - the bridge ends - in exactly the technology and language that is used for each side, e.g. COBOL for the back-end side and JAVA for the front-end platform. The generated code is readable and maintainable - as if programmed by the best developers.
And if something changes? SCORE Adaptive Bridges recognizes the impact of changes. Impact and dependency analysis as well as the interfaces versioning ensures safety during the lifetime of the applications.
In this way application integration becomes easy.
SCORE Adaptive Bridges suppors the development of a SOA
Services don't just pop out of thin air! Building a SOA is complicated by the existing mix of old and new technologies, application architectures and programming languages. The crucial problem is the lack of adaptivity - This applies not only to the legacy systems, but unfortunately also to the new applications that are now being developed with the latest cutting-edge technologies. Different architectures, development paradigms, languages and platforms have to be connected:
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Intelligent Service Enablement
With SCORE Adaptive Bridges you will develop adaptive services and flexible interfaces. Instead of an inflexible central broker, SCORE Adaptive Bridges generates Model Oriented adapters; precisely, flexible and performing. The Adaptive Services and generated adapters always guarantee the necessary flexibility, performance and adaptability, which facilitate the modernization, integration and re-deployment.
For example: Services from COBOL applications
And that is only one example: Likewise it is possible to create flexible services from application components that were developed with other languages.
SCORE Adaptive Bridges supports modernizing your applications
Changes in productive applications are risky. Often the modernization or new implementation is not started because the risk of a big bang approach.
Its flexibility allows SCORE Adaptive Bridges to carry out modernization and re-implementations gradually. Individual parts or layers of the applications can be modernized separately. SCORE Adaptive Bridges generates the necessary connections. Changes to the components and interfaces can easily be implemented and the impact and dependency analysis plus the interface versioning you control the impact. How such a comprehensive modernization can be performed is described in our report on RDW.
In this way, changes and modernization of business-critical applications can be carried out safely. The automated implementation of interfaces allows a safe gradual approach to modernization. The applications are decoupled and gradually modernized. This gradual approach will not only provide safety, but also allows you to integrate with new technologies.
SCORE Adaptive Bridges – The Functionality
Information to the functionality of SCORE Adaptive Bridges is available on the following page: SCORE Adaptive Bridges – Product Functionality
SCORE Adaptive Bridges Supported Platforms
SCORE Adaptive Bridges supports almost any combination of languages, architectures and platforms. The document about supported platforms in SCORE Adaptive Bridges provides an initial overview.
References: What our customers say about SCORE Adaptive Bridges
"Our experience with SCORE Adaptive Bridges in the prototype and pilot phase were confirmed when we scaled to the actual project size - 60 developers, 30.000 modules and 12.000.000 lines of code."
Robert Koch, CIO, Suva, Switzerland
"We have generated services for various middleware and platform combinations – SCORE has solved these issues easily. For this project we used a very tight schedule. We were impressed, that we have achieved through the use of SCORE continuous improvement in productivity by 400% to 600%."
Thomas Müller, Manager Anwendungsarchitektur und Methoden, Suva, Switzerland
"The platform independence of the services makes infrastructure decisions much easier: from the once created model, we can produce adapters for every environment and every middleware "at the push of a button."
Dr. Eckhard Otto, CIO SCHORCH, Germany
Want to modernize, integrate and gradually replace applications?
The increasing development speed of business processes, the scale and complexity of existing core applications and the demands on safety and quality require maximum flexibility in the development of services and automation in the manufacturing of connectivity.
The adaptively of the connection is essential, considering that the integration / connection is not a one off, but a continuous process. Each element within the overall application portfolio has its individual pace of change, its own development and maintenance schedules and its specific technology adaptation cycle.
If you ask yourself one of the following questions, you should talk to us about possible solutions.
- Reuse – How can I use my existing applications to provide new features faster?
- Modernization – How can I modernize my applications securely and replace old ones gradually?
- Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) – How can I bring these different technologies under one roof?
- Mobile applications – Are we able to offer existing functionality as a mobile application if the user-interaction model is completely different from the back-end application?
- Application islands – Can I provide a consistent architecture for the integration of application Islands that have arisen over time or through mergers and acquisitions?
- SOA – How can I provide efficient, safe and reliable services by using my existing applications and data storage systems?
- Cloud – How can I move parts of my applications to the cloud and connect via secure interfaces with our on-premise applications?
- Diversity – How can I make maximum use of the experience of the developers and make the most of the technologies used?
Talk to us about your requirements.
Functionality
Functionality
SCORE Adaptive Bridges accelerate the construction of a flexible service-oriented application architecture and simplifies reuse of existing functionality to enable the quick deployment of new IT applications and better support of business processes with IT functionality.
What does SCORE Adaptive Bridges offer you?
SCORE Adaptive Bridges extracts all useful information from existing interfaces, data definitions, DBMS-information, etc. SCORE Adaptive Bridges generates the adapters and the entire interface management for the connection of the application components and automatically bridges the gap between the different languages, technologies and platforms.
SCORE Adaptive Bridges:
- Uses generators, i.e. safe and reliable, but also flexible and adaptive.
Changes are always implemented in the same way.
Changes in the architecture or in the framework can be done globally, the affected components are easily regenerated. - Generates the platform specific implementation, i. e. developers do not have to worry about platform-specific details, SCORE Adaptive Bridges knows the technical details and generates the complete implementation.
- Operates non-invasively, i.e. existing applications are encapsulated and need not to be changed, a perfect solution for the automatic integration of back-end systems.
- No Footprint, i.e. your applications are independent from SCORE Adaptive Bridges. The tool is used temporarily for the duration of the project. The generated application components are easy to maintain or develop further.
SCORE Adaptive Bridges – A functional overview
To connect application components, many requirements must be met. SCORE Adaptive Bridges generates intelligent adapters that guarantee the smooth interaction. In addition SCORE Adaptive Bridges ensures that your applications are agile and react flexibly to changes.
Intelligent adapters
- Easy reuse and creation of composite applications with generated, adaptive connectivity using a flexible layered architecture
- Automatically generated Interface Management
- Automatic Message Handling including format conversion and Object-Relational mapping
- Encapsulation of middleware technologies
- Automatic Transaction Management (Session Handling)
- State Management
- Business logic for complex requirements
- Stratification of interfaces and external services
Service agility
- Optimized choreography including cache management, packaging, pre-fetching, etc.
- Support multi-granular interfaces instead of an inflexible central broker
- Automatic generation and runtime support of various interface versions
- Automatic detection of interface changes as well as comprehensive impact and dependency analyzes provide security after updates
- Code optimization for deployment platforms
- Support for parallel platforms
Service- quality
- Interface versioning for safe rollout
- Non-invasive integration of legacy systems
- Integration into host security models
- High performance
- High Availability
- Simple system administration
SCORE Adaptive Bridges reduces the cost of application integration and building service-oriented architectures. It facilitates the modernization and optimization of your business processes. SCORE Adaptive Bridges will also help you to gradually replace, modernize or re-implement your old applications.
What can SCORE Adaptive Bridges do for you? Speak with us about requirements.
Supported Platforms
Supported Platforms
SCORE Adaptive Bridges generates software adapters, including the management interface, for the connection of application modules. SCORE Adaptive Bridges builds bridges and compensates automatically all differences in languages, techniques and platforms. It makes individual application components into Adaptive Services.
SCORE Adaptive Bridges supports almost any combination of languages, architectures, platforms. Therefore, the following selection is only a first impression. We are happy to provide you more information personally.
Languages
- Java
- C#
- C++
- COBOL
- Delta ADS
- PL/I
Platforms
- J2SE, J2EE
- Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft Windows Server
- IBM z/OS, IBM AIX
- Oracle Solaris
- Fujitsu BS2000/OSD (Siemens BS2000/OSD)
- HP NonStop Guardian, HP NonStop OSS
- Unisys OS2200, NPE
- Unix/Linux – Various manufacturers
TP Monitors, Middleware and communication
- Fujitsu OpenUTM (Siemens OpenUTM)
- HP NonStop Pathwax, Tuxedo
- IBM CICS, IBM IMS TM (IBM IMS/DC)
- Oracle Tuxedo
- Unisys OpenOLTP
- X/Open CPI-C
Databases
- Fujitsu LEASY (Siemens LEASY), SESAM/SQL-Server, UDS/SQL
- HP NonStop SQL/MP, SQL/MX
- IBM DB2, DL/1, IMS/DB, Informix
- Ingres
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Oracle
- Sybase
- Unisys RDMS
We also connect your desired languages, architectures or platforms.
Or ask specific information about your task.
Donwloads / Documents
Documents about SCORE Adaptive Bridges
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ObjectBridge Java Edition, as a part of SCORE/Integration Suite, is the connective element between an object-oriented Java Client and almost any kind of server components. ObjectBridge Java Edition generates Java classes (proxies) by that a client application, developed in Java, can call either an object oriented server like Java or C++, or a not object oriented one like a Cobol program.
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Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) – a term that increasingly meets with response in the area of company-crucial applications. As a server-side compo¬nent architecture for company-wide usage, EJB supports you in managing critical business processes. ObjectBridge EJB Edition supports you in developing such success-decisive applications with the smooth integration of the existing applications as well as with their usage in the Internet.
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Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) – a term that increasingly meets with positive response in the scope of company critical applications. EJB, as a server-side component ¬architecture for company-wide usage, supports the future-proof realization of your business processes. ObjectBridge EJB Edition accelerates and facilitates the development of these success-crucial applications, both in terms of the integration of existing applications as for the use in the Internet.
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In today’s IT world nobody can afford to focus on technology; instead you must focus on business, ensuring that the investments you have made over the years in your existing application assets, infrastructure and people are making a real contribution to your day-to-day business – continually reducing costs and increasing value. To increase the value of your enterprise projects you must reduce the cost of integrating your existing application assets.
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Suva uses generative programming tools from Delta Software Technology to maximise return on investment when integrating legacy COBOL applications in a distributed thin-client architecture.
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SUVA uses generative programming tools from Delta Software Technology to maximise return on investment when integrating COBOL legacy applications in a distributed thin-client architecture.
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This Business View helps you to learn how SCORE Adaptive Bridges allows you to multiply the value of your existing applications and data stores by creating adaptive services.
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This Methodology View helps you to learn about how SCORE Integration Suite implements the OMG Model Driven Architecture (MDA) as applied to integration, a methodology we call Model Driven Legacy Integration.
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This Process View helps you to learn about the three key processes - Discovery, Composition and Production - that you follow as a developer when using SCORE Adaptive Bridges to design, build, test and deploy adaptive services.
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This Runtime View helps you to learn about the architecture of the client, server and middleware code generated by SCORE Adaptive Bridges to implement adaptive services on diverse deployment platforms.
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This platform guide helps you to learn about the way SCORE Adaptive Bridges generates server-side code to implement adaptive services for businesscritical applications on HP NonStop servers.
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This platform guide helps you to learn about the way SCORE Adaptive Bridges generates server-side code to implement adaptive services for business-critical applications on Fujitsu-Siemens BS2000/OSD business servers.
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SCORE Adaptive Bridges helps you to quickly and reliably make your mission-critical COBOL applications available as Adaptive Services for new application contexts in a service-oriented architecture.
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An enterprise portal can only deliver its true potential for reducing costs and increasing value when your strategic legacy applications are available in the portal environment.
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Schorch quickly and easily integrate their mainframe legacy applications into their enterprise portal using SCORE Adaptive Bridges from Delta Software Technology.
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Irrespective of the proven benefits, many organisations are holding back from enterprise portal projects due to the many apparent hurdles. SCORE Adaptive Bridges from Delta Software Technology increases the cost effectiveness of portal projects through the quick and easy integration of the back-end systems. This white paper presents the key challenges that arise with enterprise portal projects and shows how SCORE Adaptive Bridges solves these problems.
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EAI/ESB architectures are well suited to integrating application packages due to the wide range of standard adapters available. Integrating your valuable custom applications, however, requires custom solutions, whose manual implementation and maintenance are cumbersome and expensive. Are you looking for a solution to automatically integrate your custom applications? Read in this white paper how SCORE Adaptive Bridges enables you to non-invasively use your existing legacy custom applications
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Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann (HKM) - "Hüttenwerke" is German for steelworks - has been using Delta´s development tools for more than 25 years and has now once again selected a new tool from Delta.
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Technical Documentations
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This section helps you to learn about the way SCORE Adaptive Bridges generates server-side code to implement adaptive services for business-critical applications on HP NonStop servers.
SCORE Adaptive Bridges platform support changes over time so your specific infrastructure products may not be included below. Please contact your local sales organization to discuss your specific requirements.
Application Reuse
In this section we focus on reusing your existing OSS and Guardian Pathway applications and databases in a flexible service-oriented architecture.
SCORE Adaptive Bridges generates your adaptive services as a series of layers. Please see “Runtime View” for an introduction to the layer architecture and “what goes where.”
20 Years NonStop
Delta has supported the HP (formerly Tandem and Compaq) NonStop (Himalaya) platform since the mid 1980s with the Delta/ADS and Delta/DBI COBOL code generators. Building on this experience, Delta has worked closely with some of our most experienced NonStop customers on the design, implementation and testing of SCORE Adaptive Bridges for the NonStop platform.
NonStop Kernel
SCORE Adaptive Bridges generates adaptive services in standard COBOL for the NonStop Kernel operating system. There are no specific hardware or operating system requirements.
Connectivity
Adaptive services connect to the outside world using the NonStop Tuxedo transaction monitor. SCORE Adaptive Bridges generates NonStop Tuxedo servers and services. The standard performance, fault-tolerance and system management features are fully supported.
OSS Support
SCORE Adaptive Bridges allows you to easily reuse your applications that run in the Open System Services (OSS) environment. OSS applications are directly invoked from the application adapter generated as a NonStop Tuxedo server.
Pathway Support
SCORE Adaptive Bridges allows you to reuse your existing Guardian Pathway server classes by exposing them as adaptive services. Connectivity to your Pathway server classes is achieved using the standard NonStop Tuxedo translation server that converts Tuxedo requests into PATHSEND interprocess messages that are forwarded to the corresponding Pathway server classes.
Database Support
A major benefit of SCORE Adaptive Bridges is the ability to provide managed access to your existing NonStop SQL/MP and NonStop SQL/MX relational databases without having to go through an existing application.
You define the logical data access that you need and SCORE Integration Suite then generates a complete data access server to meet your specific requirements. A data access server is generated for the OSS environment when accessing NonStop SQL/MX databases and for the Guardian environment when accessing NonStop SQL/MP databases.
The data access server is a complete COBOL application program that integrates seamlessly with your adaptive services. By generating fully documented native code you can easily inspect the generated code and use your existing audit, security and monitoring tools.
Transaction Integrity
Adaptive services fully support the distributed integrity functions of the NonStop Transaction Management Facility (NonStop TMF). Your logical transaction boundaries are defined within SCORE Integration Suite and the appropriate transactional logic is generated into the technology adapter, application adapter and data access server.
Client Support
Once you have defined your adaptive services as platform independent models you can generate for any of the client technologies that are available with SCORE Adaptive Bridges – Java, J2EE EJB, C#, C++, ActiveX, COBOL, Web services platforms and many others.
For example – your existing application can be accessed from a Java client on Microsoft Windows, a J2EE EJB server on HP-UX, or even a J2EE EJB environment running on your NonStop server.
SCORE Adaptive Bridges generates all of the platform specific code, making full use of the unique features supported by each client platform and technology. Your adaptive services are always defined fully independently of the client technology. A new client platform is only a click away.
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This platform guide helps you to learn about the way SCORE Adaptive Bridges generates server-side code to implement adaptive services for businesscritical applications on HP NonStop servers.
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This section helps you to learn about the way SCORE Adaptive Bridges generates server-side code to implement adaptive services for business-critical applications on Fujitsu BS2000/OSD business servers.
SCORE Adaptive Bridges platform support changes over time so your specific infrastructure products may not be included below. Please contact your local sales organization to discuss your specific requirements.
Application Reuse
SCORE Adaptive Bridges enables your existing BS2000/OSD applications and databases to participate, unchanged, as adaptive services in a flexible service-oriented architeture.
Adaptive services are generated as a series of layers. In this section we focus on how the server-side layers are supported on the BS2000/OSD platform.
20 Years BS2000
Delta has supported the BS2000/OSD platform since the mid 1980s with the Delta/ADS and Delta/DBI COBOL code generators. Delta leverages this experience in the design, implementation and testing of SCORE Integration Suite for the BS2000/OSD platform.
BS2000/OSD
SCORE Adaptive Bridges generates adaptive services in COBOL2000 for BS2000/OSD running on the S model (/390 CMOS), SR model (MIPS RISC CMOS) and the SX model (SPARC64) series. There are no specific hardware or operating system requirements.
Solaris
The SX model series supports BS2000/OSD and Solaris running in parallel. SCORE Adaptive Bridges is also available for Solaris. Please refer to "Supported Platforms" for more information on support for Solaris and other UNIX platforms.
Connectivity
Adaptive services connect to the outside world through openUTM, communicating with openUTM-Clients using the CPI-C interface and UPIC transaction protocol. The performance, fault-tolerance and system management features of openNET Server are fully supported.
openUTM Support
SCORE Adaptive Bridges allows you to quickly and simply reuse openUTM dialog-steps to create adaptive services. Dialog-step sub-programs are directly invoked using the KDCS interface from the generated application adapter. This links a KDCROOT driver with the appropriate dialog-step sub-program and any resource managers to build a standard BS2000/OSD openUTM application.
Database Support
A major benefit of SCORE Adaptive Bridges is managed access to your existing BS2000/OSD Oracle database, SESAM/SQL-Server database and LEASY transactional indexed file system, without modifying existing applications or writing complicated data-access routines.
You define the logical data access you need and SCORE Adaptive Bridges then generates a complete data access server to meet your specific requirements.
The data access server is a complete COBOL2000 application program that integrates seamlessly with your adaptive services. Fully documented native code enables easy inspection and use of your audit, security and monitoring tools.
Integration with the hybrid CODASYL/Relational database UDS/SQL is available on a project-specific basis. Please contact your local sales organization to discuss your specific requirements.
Transaction Integrity
Adaptive services fully support the distributed integrity functions of BS2000/OSD and openUTM. Your logical transaction boundaries are defined within SCORE Adaptive Bridges and the appropriate transactional logic is generated into the technology adapter, application adapter and data access server.
Client Support
Once you have defined your adaptive services as platform independent models you can generate for any of the client technologies that are available with SCORE Adaptive Bridges – Java, J2EE EJB, C#, C++, ActiveX, COBOL, Web services platforms and many others.
For example – your existing application can be accessed from a Java client on Microsoft Windows, a J2EE EJB server on Solaris, or even the openSEAS BeanTransactions J2EE EJB environment running on BS2000/OSD.
SCORE Adaptive Bridges generates all of the platform specific code, making full use of the unique features supported by each client platform and technology. Your adaptive services are always defined fully independently of the client technology. A new client platform is only a click away.
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This platform guide helps you to learn about the way SCORE Adaptive Bridges generates server-side code to implement adaptive services for business-critical applications on Fujitsu-Siemens BS2000/OSD business servers.
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