Although the OpenEdge Adapter for Sonic ESB and the WSA are very similar, there are some differences between them. The most significant difference is that Sonic ESB hosts a service in conjunction with the OpenEdge Adapter for Sonic ESB, whereas an OpenEdge web service is hosted on a web server or Java Servlet Engine (JSE) in conjunction with the WSA.

It is important to note that once the OpenEdge Adapter for Sonic ESB is installed, it does not appear as an entity of that name in any OpenEdge or Sonic UI component. In the Sonic Management Console (the primary tool for managing services and related functions) the presence of two OpenEdge services, OpenEdge Native Services and OpenEdge Web Services.

The following figure shows the OpenEdge services in the Sonic Management Console.

There are a few additional differences, described in the topics that follow, that you should note if you are familiar with the WSA. The procedures to which these sections refer, as well as other important information about management of the adapters, is described in Manage Progress Application Server (PAS) for OpenEdge.