This section summarizes new, and enhanced features in Progress® Corticon® 6.0.0.

Support for accessing REST services

Corticon 6.0 expands the data integration capabilities of Corticon with the introduction of a new REST Datasource. A REST Datasource lets you retrieve data from REST services to enrich the payloads being processed by your rules. Examples of usage include accessing an external credit bureau's REST service to retrieve a credit rating for an applicant, and accessing an internal REST service to retrieve supporting information for a healthcare claim. The new REST Datasource complements the existing EDC and ADC features, providing the ability to access both REST and database data from your rules.

Two sample projects, "REST Connectivity" and "Mixed Connectivity" are bundled with Corticon Studio to introduce how to use the new REST Datasource.

For more information, see the topic Getting Started with REST

New Corticon .NET Server architecture

Corticon 6.0 introduces a new architecture for Corticon .NET. The previous IKVM cross-compiling architecture has been replaced with a much simpler and faster architecture for bridging between .NET and Java. Corticon 6.0 .NET performance is at least 3x faster than previous versions.

Corticon 6.0 .NET supports both in-process and IIS deployment. See the Web Services and In-Process sections for information about deploying Corticon 6.0 decision services to .NET. The samples and supporting utilities have all been completely revised so that they are easier to use and easier to contrast to the Java implementation.

For more information, see the topics in Web services on .NET