Frank Hilhorst, President of Progressive Consulting, to speak at PUG Challenge 2013

Frank Hilhorst, President of Progressive Consulting Inc., will give the following presentation at the PUG challenge confenerece which is to be held on June 9 thru 12, 2013.

 

• Data sharing in an open source world

• This presentation will examine what the options are in the OpenEdge environment for......
• Gaining access to data in an open source database such as MySql or Apache Derby
• Providing access to data in a Progress database from an open source environment
• Topics covered are
• Porting a Progress database to an open source database and vice versa
• Porting the data definitions
• Porting the data
• Replicating from a Progress database to an open source database and vice versa
• A toolkit is provided consisting of 4GL and JAVA components that will allow you to immediately start implementing Open Source datasharing in a Progress application
• You can download the toolkit from this link

 

TurboQuery JDBC dataserver scheduled for release in March 2013

The TurboQuery JDBC data server allows you to query and process data directly from the 4GL from any open source database that supports JDBC. Supported databases include mySql, Apache Derby and PostgresQl. This tool connects to the foreign database through a web service. Data is received and processed in the 4GL in the form of a ProDataset. Changes in the dataset are tracked and can then be committed to the foreign database. The JDBC dataserver will also come with a dictionary that allows you to maintain the schema in the foreign database.

TurboStomp Stomp Adapter release scheduled for December 2012

TurboStomp is a Stomp Adapter that allows you to integrate your Progress application with any JMS message server that supports the STOMP (Simple Text Oriented Message Protocol).
The Stomp Adapter has the following features

• Industrial Strength
• Tested to process 2000 transactions per second with zero message loss
• Supports synchronous and asynchronous messages patterns
• Special integration features supported with ActiveMQ & RabbitMQ
• Temporary queues
• Virtual hosts
• RabbitMQ exchanges

Frank Hilhorst, President of Progressive Consulting, to speak at PUG Challenge 2012

Frank Hilhorst, President of Progressive Consulting Inc., will give the following 2 presentations at the PUG challenge confenerece which is to be held on May 6 thru 9, 2012.

Of websockets, Facebook and the many ways to talk to the client

• This presentation will cover a number of technologies to implement the server push model and how you can intehgrate them with a PROGRESS OpenEdge back end. These Technologies are commonly referred to as COMET. Technologies covered are WebSockets, Apllets, Long Polling and Comet servers.

• This presentation comes with a toolkit that you can download here
• The persentation also comes with a demo page which you can access from this link

Everyting you always wanted to know about JAVVA/OpenEdge integration but were afraid to ask

• This presentation covers a number of strategies you can use to integrate JAVA functionality into an OpenEdge application
• This presentation comes with a toolkit that you can download here
• The persentation also comes with a demo page which you can access from this link

 

Beta version of TurboComet Comet Server released

The TurboComet Comet server allows you to implement the server push architecture in an OpenEdge web application. This tool allows you to push messages from the server to browser client without the use of polling.

Here is a list of features of this new and exciting tool:

• Integrates with Progress Backend using OpenClient
• Scalable
• Scales up large number of connections using low resource JAVA continuations model
• Comes bundled with Jetty servlet engine
• Supports Reverse Ajax server push model
• Works in all browsers
• A ABL OO class is included that allows you to post and receive messages from a 4GL client

You can access a demo of the Comet Server and download a demo version from this link.

 

Frank Hilhorst,President of Progressive Consulting , to speak at EMEA PUG Challenge 2011 in Amsterdam

Frank Hilhorst, President of Progressive Consulting Inc., will give the following 2 presentations at the the PROGRESS EMEA Pug challenge confenerece which is to be held on November 3 and 4, 2011.

• The cloud/RIA performance race
  • The presentation goes over the results of a benchmark testing poject where tested against a PROGRESS backend running in the cloud. Strategies for optimizing performance will be discussed.
• Of websockets, Facebook and the many ways to talk to the client
  • This presentation will cover a number of technologies to implement the server push model and how you can intehgrate them with a PROGRESS OpenEdge back end. These Technologies are commonly referred to as COMET. Technologies covered are WebSockets, Apllets, Long Polling and Comet servers.
• This presentation comes with a toolkit that you can download here

 

President of Progressive Consulting speaks at the 2011 PUG Challenge Conference

At the PUG Challenge conference, held June 5 - 8, 2011, in Westfort, Massachusetts, Frank Hilhorst, president of Progressive Consulting Inc., gave a presentation on migrating a Progress application to an RIA technology and to the cloud. The presentation highlighted the results of an extensive set of benchmark tests on how different RIA technologies, such as SILVERLIGHT, JAVA, and OpenLaszlo, perform in the cloud, and the optimal way to integrate them with the Progress back end. Also included in the presentation was how the Progressive Consulting Turbo WebSpeed technology can be used to achieve performance improvements of 700% over the traditional Progress WebSpeed technology.

 

Progressive Consulting releases version 1.1 of its Turbo WebSpeed Servlet Engine

The Turbo WebSpeed CGI scripting engine is a tool that allows traditional Progress CGI scripts to be called from a servlet. Since this eliminates the overhead of having to spawn a separate Progress executable for every time a CGI script is called, performance improvements of 700% can be obtained. The new release of Turbo WebSpeed adds support for binary uploads and downloads. An object, CGIALT-WEB-CONTEXT, which mirrors the functionality of the PROGRESS WEB-CONTEXT handle, was also added.

 

The Cloud RIA Benchmark Testing Project

The Cloud RIA benchmark testing project is an open source project that aims to benchmark test RIA technologies such as Silverlight, Flex etc. against the PROGRESS back end. The benchmark test uses the metaphor of runners in a race to make as many Appserver round trips as possible in a given amount of time. The benchmark tests are conducted using the Sports 2000 database on an Amazon cloud computer. A "race" is defined by the number of records fetched per Appserver call. The user selects the duration of the race and whether the runners run simultaneously or sequentially. Silverlight, OpenLaszlo , Javascript/AJAX and JAVA/SWING have already been tested. If you would like to conduct a benchmark test, contact us and we would send you the Benchmark Test Kit.