Progress Users Group Challenge — Session Submission

From ABL to API: Architecting Cloud Integrations with Progress OpenEdge and Boomi Christopher Kelleher Consultant, Wyman Gordon – A Division of Precision Castparts Corp. chris.kelleher@wyman.com chris.kelleher@quaker.software From ABL to API: Architecting Cloud Integrations with Progress OpenEdge and Boomi Progress OpenEdge ABL has been a cornerstone of enterprise ERP systems for decades — but connecting it to modern cloud platforms is rarely straightforward. In this session, Chris Kelleher draws on over 30 years of OpenEdge development experience to walk through a real -world integration architecture built at Wyman Gordon, a division of Precision Castparts Corp. Using Boomi as the middleware layer and ABL as the client, he'll demonstrate how to design a clean, reusable shared library for consuming REST web services, managing HTTP authentication and SSL, caching responses in temp -tables, and surfacing cloud data to existing Progress applications — all without rewriting what already works. Modern manufacturing environments incr easingly rely on cloud -based ERP platforms like Syteline Cloud — but many shops still have deep investments in Progress OpenEdge applications that aren't going anywhere. So how do you bridge the two? In this session, Chris Kelleher shares a practical, rea l-world approach to integrating Progress OpenEdge ABL with cloud applications using Boomi as the middleware layer. Drawing on his current work at Wyman Gordon (a division of Precision Castparts Corp.) and over 30 years of OpenEdge experience, Chris walks t hrough the design and implementation of a reusable ABL shared library that: • Calls Boomi -hosted REST web services with HTTPS and Basic Authentication • Manages SSL protocols and cipher configuration from ABL • Caches web service responses in temp -tables for ef ficient reuse • Can still use local Symix database data when cloud services are unavailable • Stores integration configuration (endpoints, credentials, feature flags) in a syscode table — no hardcoding Whether you're maintaining a legacy OpenEdge application or building new integrations against a cloud ERP, this session will give you a concrete architectural pattern and working code you can take back to your shop.