Usage of OpenAjax Hub 1.0

Software AG

Thomas StoesserSenior Product Manager

Software AG’s usage of the OpenAjax Hub

Software AG‘s webMethods Suite (SOA & BPM)¬ webMethods Composite Application Framework (wM CAF)

¬ Consists of an Eclipse-based Design time and a Jetty-based runtime – My webMethods Server (MWS)

wM My webMethods Server 8 includes the OpenAjax Hub ¬ Used like a „standardized“ page bus

¬ Several page objects (portlets, workspace tabs, navigation items, etc.) publish and/or subscribe to the OpenAjax hub for exchanging information.

The Power of Two

Text on the first level – 20 point¬ Text on the second level – 18 point - preferable

¬ Text on the third level – 16 point – this is the smallest text for a slide

OpenAjaxHub

Some visual examples how we leverage the OpenAjax hub

A portlet, in this case a customer picker, leverages OA.publish to publish a specific value of the type ‚customer‘

A different portlet, in this case a portlet that shows „Service Requests per customer“ subscribes to the hub for ‚customer‘. When the value for ‚customer‘ is set or changes an async refresh is invoked

Another example is the way we handle name changes of pages and updating the navigation: Pages or workspaces publish name changes to the OpenAjax hub…

… the left-hand side navigation is subscribed to the OpenAjax hub in order to catch name changes and update navigation items asyncronously immediately

What‘s next?

¬My webMethods Server 8 will be released in Q3/2009

¬Currently we use version 1.0 of the OpenAjax hub for development ¬ We plan to move to v1.1 as soon as possible

¬In theory it should be possible to have 3rd party portlets communicate with our portlets via the OpenAjax hub – this has to be tested

Thank You!