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OpenSpan Cuts Across More Application Types


By David Worthington
August 1, 2007 —  Is your idea of application integration cutting and pasting among applications? OpenSpan says that integrating the applications themselves is a better way.

OpenSpan Platform 3.1, the latest version of the company’s application integration and process automation platform, became generally available today.

Among the new features are support for Java user interfaces including AWT, Sun and Swing, the ability to work with Oracle Siebel 7+ applications, Windows Vista 32-bit applications and ActiveX controls, and enhanced host support for interfacing with mainframe applications.

The .NET-based platform consists of the OpenSpan Studio visual design environment, the OpenSpan Integrator application runtime, and an OpenSpan SOA Module for consuming Web services.

Developers use OpenSpan Studio to build automations and integrations, add functionality to applications and create new composite applications. The OpenSpan platform also integrates virtualized applications, but currently supports only Citrix-based application virtualization.

To create integrations, developers select which applications they want to integrate; OpenSpan Studio interrogates those applications to expose presentation objects. An API is created on the fly, and inserted into the running application in memory without touching the application code on disk. Developers can leverage existing user interfaces or create a new normalized interface. With OpenSpan Studio, “you can take anything new and integrate it with anything old,” claimed company CEO Francis Carden.

The OpenSpan Integrator runtime executes integrations created in OpenSpan Studio, and monitors and interacts with an application’s internal code and data. It intercepts message calls between the application and the Windows operating system and interacts with objects in the application.

"With this upgrade, OpenSpan continues to build on its value proposition: rapid, simple and cost-effective integration of a wide variety of platforms, applications and technologies," said Ovum Summit research director Warren Wilson. "By adding native APIs for a variety of popular applications, OpenSpan makes it easier for customers to integrate them with legacy applications that are mission-critical and too expensive to replace."

The SOA Module is an optional plug-in for consuming Web services and integrating with Internet applications. An example that Carden demonstrated online featured him inserting a credit-checking Web application into a legacy desktop application, with the help of the module.



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