Actional Technical Specifications

Progress® Actional® products are built for optimal SOA integration and interoperability with a wide range of heterogeneous SOA infrastructure such as applications, data sources, network devices, middleware, identity management products, and registries and repositories. Actional places great importance on supporting industry standards to make this interoperability possible.

Actional products are certified to run on the following platforms:

  • Operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat pSeries, Solaris (including the x86 series), HP-UX, IBM AIX
  • Browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox
  • Application servers: BEA WebLogic Server, IBM WebSphere, JBoss Server, Oracle Application Server (OAS) 10g, SAP NetWeaver
  • Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, MSDE
  • Java virtual machine: Sun JDK, BEA Jrockit JVM

Protocols and interfaces supported include Axis, SOAP, EJB, JMS, Servlets (HTTP), Jakarta HTTP client, ADO.Net, RMI, JDBC, and Kerberos.

Actional agents can instrument a broad range of environments, including (but not limited to) Apache Tomcat, BEA WebLogic Server, IBM WebSphere, JBoss Server, Oracle Application Server (OAS) 10g, Systinet WASP/J, Microsoft .NET framework, SAP NetWeaver, Progress® Sonic™ ESB, Progress® SonicMQ®, TIBCO, and Reactivity, as well as the Lombardi Teamworks and TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks business process management (BPM) solutions.

Progress Actional for Active Policy Enforcement and Actional for Continuous Service Optimization integrate with a variety of standards-based, third-party identity management and single sign-on (SSO) technologies including RSA ClearTrust, Oracle Access Manager, CA SiteMinder, Tivoli Access Manager, HP SelectAccess, and Securent.

For additional questions on Actional products, please contact us.