Progress® Corticon® is the Business Rules Management System with the patented rules engine that enables you to automate sophisticated decision processes—without having to write code. This guide presents procedures for accessing, downloading, and running Corticon installers, as well as providing dynamic access to information about supported platforms. Links to the Progress KnowledgeBase provide additional information about third-party software setup.
Note: The Corticon Installer wizards will install or update Corticon 7.x Java Server runtime components. You can install Corticon products on a machine that has a previous version installed. Where a previous version is installed, you must manage any port overloads that might result from running both versions.

Progress Corticon products

Progress Corticon distinguishes its development toolsets from its server runtime environments.

  • Corticon Studio is the Windows-based development environment for creating and testing business rules.
  • Corticon runtime components implement and manage web services and in-process servers for deploying business rules defined in Corticon Studio:
    • Corticon Server for Java is supported on various UNIX and Linux web service platforms, in-process, and on various application servers. After you install it on a supported Windows platform, its runtime artifacts can be redeployed
    • Corticon Server for .NET facilitates deployment of Corticon Decision Services on Windows .NET Framework and Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS).
    • Corticon Web Console enables administration of multiple remote Corticon Servers. A Web Console server is deployed into an application server, and then is accessed by users through authenticated web browser connections. The Web Console is a separate installation that enables it to maintain autonomy to manage all the supported long-term Corticon Server installations.
    • Corticon Utilities enable a command line interface for the Corticon Web Console, a utility for Corticon command line operations, and a utility for command line compilation of multiple decision services.