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Progress puts its Mindreef assets to work on SOA


By David Worthington
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March 3, 2009 —  Design-time and runtime application life-cycle validation have been merged together in a new version of Progress Software's Web services management software.

Progress released Actional 8.0 yesterday, the first version of Actional to incorporate service-oriented architecture quality management and testing tools that the company acquired from Mindreef in June 2008. Mindreef may be best known for its SOAPscope Server.

“Combining quality and management capabilities makes a lot of sense. Governance quality and management all fit closely together," said ZapThink managing partner Jason Bloomberg. "For the Actional tool to be competitive with the likes of [Hewlett-Packard], it makes sense to include quality."

He noted that Progress Software is a long-term partner of HP and that Actional often works in conjunction with the Systinet registry/repository.

The new release takes Actional's existing production-side transaction tracking and tracing capabilities and brings it back into the development phase, said Dan Foody, vice president of Actional products. "When a test transaction is run, a developer has visibility into actions such as database operations and Web service calls," he explained.

That ability helps developers eliminate errors earlier in the service life cycle and gives them a "sniff test" of where bottlenecks will come from and whether a service will scale, he said.

Likewise, Mindreef's capabilities are now being used in the production phase of the life cycle, said Foody. "Actional captures business data and messages that were part of a failed transaction, loads the order data, and runs analysis policies comparing it to other orders to see what was different." A failed order can also be converted into a test case and sent back to developers and QA teams.

A timeline capability has been added to help developers analyze transaction behavior over time to see how application changes impact business transaction flows, Foody said.

Actional's logging behavior has been modified to automatically correlate application-level logs to transactions, and developers can apply policies to logs that take the value of transactions—such as a log related to a higher-tier customer—into account. It can also flush out sensitive data that may cause compliance issues in some enterprises.

"The root cause of failures starts back in development,” said Foody. “Tools and capabilities brought up earlier in the development life cycle reduce production outages.”




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