Case study: A new approach to integrating architectures post-merger at Lawson

Posted by Floyd Marinescu on May 21, 2007 04:22 PM

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The merger of Lawson and Intentia in 2006 left developers with an important problem to solve - the integration and presentation of legacy applications and business services that are constructed in Java, .NET, and other technologies. This case study looks under the hood at the new architecture at Lawson and how they got there.

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While the systems of both companies had their similarities, their implementations differed greatly. Intentia's M3 system was centered around a server-side Java business logic tier, which was accessed by a number of different client applications. Intentia's client user interfaces (UIs) had progressed over the years, starting with a MicroFocus Cobol/C++ rich client, progressing through Active Server Pages (ASP) and JavaServer Pages (JSP) based thin client solutions to an AJAX/JSP based thin client portal, known as the Workplace Foundation. The Lawson S3 application suite is a mix of Java-based and 4th Generation Language (4GL)-based solutions, but is evolving to pure Java-based in a similar overall fashion. Between the two companies, a number of different client technologies were being utilized, ranging from the Workplace Foundation web portal to a C# based mobile sales rich client.

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