By Jan Stafford
The OpenLegacy API Platform handles and automates all aspects of an application integration project, from mapping legacy back-end assets to deployment. In addition, it provides a simple REST API implementation for application modernization projects that don’t call for eliminating core legacy systems.
OpenLegacy, an open source legacy modernization and integration platform provider in Princeton, N.J., provides “easy plumbing to your legacy system that you can quickly access and use,” said industry analyst Jason Bloomberg.
With OpenLegacy API Platform, Bloomberg said, businesses can modernize applications through integration by exposing back-end systems to modern technologies. How? The platform makes it easy for developers to generate Java Data Objects, RESTful APIs and Web services. Its automation capabilities can reduce the time it takes to integrate legacy and new software “from months to a few days,” said Bloomberg, who is president of Intellyx, an IT consulting and training firm in Glens Falls, N.Y., and author of the book, The Agile Architecture Revolution.
Bloomberg offers an example of how this API platform works. “If you want to just take it as a job object, the API platform can be used to generate that job object based on that legacy code and that legacy environment, and you can take that,” he said. Alternatively, the developer could wrap the job in a REST API and put that into the API management catalog or elsewhere in the compute environment.
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